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 10^th Wageningen International Conference
on Chain and Network Management - 127th EAAE seminar

(WICaNeM 2012)

23 May - 25 May 2012
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Conference theme:

Multi-Stakeholder Dynamics in Chains and Networks

NEW (15-05-2012) Dear Paper & Poster Presenters at the WICANEM conference,

We look forward to meeting you all next week! Starting from the Opening Session on Wednesday, May 23^rd at 19.00.

A few instructions related to your paper presentations:

-      You will find the updated Program online: www.wicanem.wur.nl -> Program. We tried to accommodate as many requests of time change as possible.

-      You will be presenting in parallel sessions of 90 minutes composed by three or four paper presentations. Presenters in sessions with three papers will have between 15 and 20 minutes for presentation, plus 10 minutes for questions & answers (Q&A). Presenters in sessions with four papers will have up to 15 minutes for presentation, plus 7 minutes for Q&A.

-      You will need to upload your powerpoint presentation through a USB drive before the start of your designated session. The laptop will be already in the room. A student assistant will support you with uploading your presentation; your session Chair will introduce your name and presentation title before you start.     

-      If you have specific questions related to the organization of your session, please contact your session Chair (see Program).

Relative to your poster presentations:

-      Please stick your posters in the Plenary Session room (Ir. Haakzaal) on Thursday May 24^th at 8.00-9.00 (before the Opening Session) or at 10.30-11.00 (during the coffee break after the Opening Sessions) on the poster boards. You will be able to present your posters during the lunch break and during the coffee breaks throughout the day. You can leave the posters on the poster boards until Friday May 25^th at 17.15. The posters left after Friday at 18.15 will be removed.

-      The recommended size of your poster is A1 (59.4 x 84.1 centimetres).

-      The organizers Anne Pluijmaekers and Stefano Pascucci will provide you with the equipment to stick your posters.

For any other question related to the conference program or logistics, please contact us at wicanem@wur.nl.

See you soon in Wageningen, Netherlands!

Domenico Dentoni, on behalf of the Organizing Committee

Older news:

(18-04-2012) Dear Participants. We have uploaded a new version of the program onto the site. If you encounter any false information, please do not hesitate to let us know! By tomorrow we need to have all the information regarding presentation times ready. Therefore, any changes asked for after tomorrow the 8th of May will not be considered anymore.

(18-04-2012) Dear Participants. For your information, we have uploaded the preliminary program onto the site. If you encounter any false information, please do not hesitate to let us know!

(17-04-2012) Dear Participants. The deadline for handing in the revised editions of your papers has passed the 15th of April. Please, if you would still like to send us your revised paper, do so as soon as possible by sending it to the WICaNeM email address: wicanem@wur.nl.

(10-04-2012) Dear Participants. We would like to kindly remind you to book your hotel rooms as soon as possible. At Hof van Wageningen (the conference venue), we have a large number of rooms reserved for the conference, but this reservation will soon cease to exist. In order to ensure you will have a room available to you during the WICaNeM conference, we would like to encourage you to book sooner rather than later. In order to convenience this process for you, we have uploaded the booking form into the 'Venue/Hotel' part of this website.

(30-03-2012) Floriade 2012

Dear Participants,

In the form of optional programming we would like to tell you about the Floriade that will be held in the Netherlands this year. The Floriade is an event of grand scale, and is held every 10 years. It offers a beautiful assortment of artfully decorated gardens and pavilions, combining horticultural highlights from all around the world. The park, spanning over 66 hectares, is divided into 5 themed parts, all with their own décor, activities, and shows. It truly is an amazing thing to see!

Considering the Floriade’s unique setting, we believed it would be of interest to you to visit the Floriade, so to speak as an optional addition to the WICaNeM 2012 program. We will therefore offer you a day package (including the day-ticket and the transport to and from the venue, departure and arrival point being Hof van Wageningen, the conference venue) for € 50,00. Separate ticket prices would be € 25,00 (€ 30,00 if you want to include the cable car ride), to which transportation fees would be added still. We do not know yet whether or not this cable car ride will be included in the package we will offer, but of course we can request this when ordering your tickets. To this end, we need to be able to estimate the amount of tickets we are going to have to book beforehand (the due date for this will be mentioned here at a later time). Please, if you would like some more information, do not hesitate to contact us at Wicanem@wur.nl, with the subject ‘Floriade’.

We plan to organise this day trip for May the 26^th. This would mean that you would have to add another day to your stay in the Netherlands.

Kindest regards,

The WICaNeM 2012 organising team.

(29-02-2012) Today, the authors that have submitted a paper before January 9th (originally January 5th) will receive their Notification of Acceptance and feedback. Please keep in mind that a Notification of Acceptance does not equal a nomination for the Best Paper Award. We will announce the nominees in a few days.

Now, reviewing the second round of papers (deadline: 20th of February) has begun. These authors will receive their feebdack and Notification of Acceptance by the 25th of March. Authors that have submitted to Track 1 (Multi-Stakeholder Engagements, Resources and Value Creation) will receive their feedback around March the 10th to allow them to refurbish their papers in time for the IFAMR deadline.

(17-02-2012) From now on it is possible to register for this year’s WICaNeM (http://www.hortilink.nl/clients/wicanem/). If you register before May 1^st you will receive a €50,00 discount on the registration fees for the general participation, developed country registration, and the PhD registration (MSc and business participants will not receive a discount). Also, please keep in mind that participants who are not yet IFAMA and/or EAAE members also have to pay a €50,00 fee for their memberships.

(13-01-2012) Due to the requests of many authors, we have decided to extend the deadline for WICANEM full paper submission to February 20^th, 2012 (by 11.59pm Netherlands time, GMT+1). If you want to submit your paper, you now have to send it directly to us, on the email address wicanem@wur.nl, and specify your track of interest. The notifications of acceptance will be sent out March 25^th, 2012.

Please keep in mind that the papers that are going to be submitted based on this information can no longer compete for the best paper award, and will not be published in the Journal of Chain and Network Science either.

(08-12-2011) We would like to remind you that all the authors submitting their manuscript to the WICaNeM conference will have the opportunity of competing for the 'Best Paper Award' and having their paper considered for publication in the Journal of Chain and Network Science (JCNS). Deadline January 5th, 2012.

(07-12-2011) The 10th WICANEM Conference is now endorsed by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA) and the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE).

(07-12-2011) The authors submitting their manuscript to the track "Managing Wicked Problems: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Engagement, Resources and Value Creation" will have the opportunity of having their paper considered for publication in the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (IFAMR). Deadline March 25th, 2012.

(First) Welcome to the 10th Wageningen International Conference on Chain and Network Management (WICaNeM 2012) website!

The 10th Wageningen International Conference on Chain and Network Management (WICaNeM 2012) celebrates twenty years of conversations among scholars and practitioners involved in the management of chains and networks. Through ten bi-annual events, WICaNeM has been conveying debates on the results of chain and network projects and new ideas for action, expanded theoretical thinking and facilitated dialogues between CEO's from agribusiness and food companies, researchers and consultants.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, WICaNeM 2012 aims to further broaden its horizons in multiple directions. First, a number of managers from agribusiness companies, NGOs, government agencies and international organizations will arise and discuss the current problems in agri-food chains and networks with scholars. Second, scholars from a range of new disciplines will be engaged in WICaNeM for the first time, as they are also facing the same problems and contributing to their solutions. Third, scholars and practitioners from new organizations around the world will attend WICaNeM as the current problems in agri-food chains and networks are increasingly interconnected across the globe.

The theme of the WICaNeM 2012 is Multi-Stakeholder Dynamics in Chains and Networks. This theme is instrumental to broaden the horizons of WICaNeM and of its community. Today’s problems related to ethics in agri-food chains and networks impose individuals and organizations to engage with multiple stakeholders at the same time. By interacting simultaneously with multiple stakeholders, individuals and organizations can harmonize their goals, norms and perceptions, innovate and create value. WICaNeM 2012 itself aims to be a learning platform to cultivate multi-stakeholder interactions that create value to its participants.

Sincerely,

The organizing committee,

Domenico Dentoni, Stefano Pascucci and Onno Omta.