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The SAIMS 2013 conference organising committee invited scientists concerned with research and teaching in the Management Sciences, as well as all other persons with an interest in the Management Sciences, to the 25th Annual Conference to be held from 15-17 September 2013 in J. Chris Coetzee Building at North-West University. This was done through the official Call for Papers which was sent to all Universities concerned and published on the conference website.
All competitive (full) papers received were sent anonymously to two reviewers (Scientific Committee included) with the following request: “Attached please find a competitive paper that was entered for the SAIMS 2013 CONFERENCE as well as the evaluation form that need to be completed during the review. To receive a subsidy from the DHET (Department of Higher Education and Training) every competitive paper must be double blind reviewed. During this review it is important that the reviewer do not only make X's in the appropriate spaces on the evaluation form. The DHET expect reviewers to motivate their decision and provide feedback to the author in the spaces provided for commentary. This will provide the author(s) with an opportunity to improve the paper to be presented”.
Of the 126 competitive papers sent to reviewers (114 reviewers), 87 were accepted; leading to a 69% success rate. After acceptance of a full paper a LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE was sent to the main author clearly indicating that the paper was accepted (Based on two independent, very thorough and "blind" reviews, we are pleased to inform you that your paper has been accepted for presentation at this conference). The two review forms (without the names of the reviewers) were also attached to the acceptance letter and a final date for handing in the corrected papers was provided. 2 authors decided to only publish an abstract of their full paper and deliver it as a work-in-progress. 65 work-in- progress papers were received and 55 were accepted.
Added to this process two special conference editions are published based on the review process of the conference: one edition for Management Dynamics with four selected quantitative conference papers and one edition for Acta Commerci with three selected conference papers. Prof C Boshoff manages the special edition of Management Dynamics and Dr G Goldman manages the special edition of Act Commerci as they are the editors of these two respected journals. Their papers were not included in the conference proceedings.
A full list of the scientific committee for the competitive papers and the work-in- progress papers is included.
Prof E Slabbert Prof D Petzer Ms E Myburgh Editors