The 1st International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences
The 1st International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences
Part of the International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
9 October 2025
9 November 2025
1 February 2026
Public Management, Leadership, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship
The IOCAS 2026 is Now OPEN for Abstract Submission and Registration.
Instructions for authors are available online.Submit your abstracts HERE.
For any inquiries, please contact us at iocas2026@mdpi.com
Welcome from the Chair
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Online Conference on Administrative Sciences. The conference is organized by the MDPI open access journal Administrative Sciences (ISSN 2076-3387, Impact Factor: 3.1) and will be held online from 4 to 5 February 2026.
The agenda of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
S1. Public Management;S2. Leadership;
S3. Strategic Management;
S4. Entrepreneurship.
IOCAS 2026 will enable you to share and discuss your most recent research findings, with the active engagement of the audience in question-and-answer sessions that will take place online without any registration fee.
The conference committee will review the submitted abstracts. The authors of accepted contributions will have their work displayed in an abstract collection. Following the conference, outstanding contributions will be invited to be submitted as a full-length paper for publication in Administrative Sciences with a 20% discount on the publication fee.
We hope you will join us, present your work at IOCAS 2026, and be part of this exciting online event.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Isabel María García Sánchez
University of Salamanca, Spain
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Event Chair
Department of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
She has a PhD. in Economics and Business Administration by the University of Salamanca (Spain). She writes for interdisciplinary indexed journals. Her research interests include financial accounting, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, environmental innovation, greenwashing, and assurance.
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Natalia Aversano
Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
NATALIA AVERSANO is a Full Professor in Accounting and Financial Reporting at the Department of Management and Innovation Systems of the University of Salerno (Italy), where she teaches courses in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, and Non-Financial Reporting. She holds a PhD in Public Sector Accounting. Her research interests include IPSASs, Public Sector Accounting, Heritage Assets, Performance Measurement Systems in universities, Intellectual Capital, Non-Financial Disclosure, Gender Diversity, and Accounting Education. She is a member of the Italian Society of Accounting and Business Economics Professors (SIDREA), the Italian Academy of Business Administration and Management (AIDEA), the European Academy of Management (EURAM), and the European Accounting Association (EAA).
http://docenti.unibas.it/site/home/docente.html?m=010594
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Clive Smallman
Australian Guild of Education, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Clive Smallman is an experienced business strategist, educator, and academic leader with over 40 years of expertise in leadership, management, and business transformation. He advises owners and leaders of universities and institutes of higher education, contributing to governance, strategic development, and accreditation processes in higher education. Clive has collaborated with global organizations and educational institutions to address complex challenges and implement sustainable growth strategies. He is also the author of Sorted: Taming Wicked Problems with Smart Leadership Thinking, and Decision Making for New Product Development in Small Businesses (with Mary Haropoulou) with extensive experience in strategic business planning, governance, and higher education policy. Clive is wide published with 100 plus h=journal papers, including the Academy of Management Journal. He has an h-index of 29.
https://www.clivesmallman.com/
Registration
The registration for IOCAS 2026 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Instructions for Authors
Deadline for abstract submission: 9 October 2025
Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: 9 November 2025
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract Submission
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical submission is necessary.
1. The abstract should include an introduction, methods, results, and conclusion sections, and be within 200-300 words in length.
4. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 minutes. We recommend a 12-minute presentation, leaving about 3 minutes for a Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Presentation
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.
- Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
- You can use our free template to create your poster.
The poster template can be downloaded here. We will reach out to you closer to the dates of the conference with more information.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
1. Administrative Science Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Administrative Science (ISSN 2076-3387, Impact Factor: 3.1), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Please note, if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
2. Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of the 1st International Online Conference on Administrative Science in the Proceedings (ISSN: 2504-3900); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCAS 2026 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
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Title.
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Full author names.
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Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
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Abstract.
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Keywords.
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Introduction.
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Methods.
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Results and Discussion.
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Conclusions.
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Acknowledgements.
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References.
Event Awards
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference, with a particular emphasis on the most innovative investigations.
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference, highlighting the most innovative investigations.
There will be six winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Alba Meng
Dr. Napaporn Chintagavongse
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
Email: iocas2026@mdpi.com
