[AISWorld] PLS'17: Keynote speakers + new publishing opportunities

[Jose L. Roldan]

Dear researchers,

Greetings from Macau!

We are very honored to announce that the PLS'17 Conference will have the following keynote speakers in its program:

1. Prof. Edward Rigdon, Georgia State University, USA (http://robinson.gsu.edu/profile/edward-e-rigdon/)

2. Prof. Harald Martens, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/harald.martens)

3. Prof. Galit Shmueli, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (http://www.iss.nthu.edu.tw/faculty/gshmueli)

PLS’17 will take place on June 17th-19th, 2017 in Macau (China), organized by Macau University of Science and Technology (http://www.must.edu.mo). The final date for abstract submission will be February 17, 2017. We are also glad to announce that The Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology would like to accept some selected papers from PLS’17.

The Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology is a reputed journal on Tourism and Hospitality areas which is published by Emerald Group Publishing and is indexed in Scopus ( Q1, CiteScore= 1.90) and also is included in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a new index from the Web of Science™ Core Collection.

Dr. Faizan Ali (University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee) and Dr. S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh (Universiti Sains Malaysia) are processing a special issue for the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology on "Partial Least Squares (PLS) in Hospitality and Tourism Research". They would like to publish some of the selected papers on tourism and hospitality from PLS'17.

You may find the CFP document here:

http://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7051

We are working on more special issue opportunities for our authors. Editorial Board members from other SSCI/SCI journals, e. g., Structural Equation Modeling Journal, MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Business Research and European Management Journal will also come and provide publication suggestions for attendees.

More information will be found on www.pls17.org or www.plsconference.com. We are looking forward to seeing you in Macau in June.

Yide Liu, Ph.D.
PLS'17 Local Chair

Associate Professor
School of Business
Macau University of Science and Technology
Direct Line: (+853) 88972862
Email: ydliu at must.edu.mo
Office: A406b