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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">++++ ERS 2020 conference will take place online - submissions possible until April 8 ++++<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">These are extraordinary times<span style="color:black"> that require all of us to depart from what we had planned</span>!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Consequently, the 2020 CSCMP European Research Seminar<span style="color:black"> has been moved</span> to the virtual space and will take place online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The new format will be designed with respect to time zone differences to also allow researchers from North America to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As in the past years, the conference is directly connected to both Journal of Business Logistics (JBL) and the International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM)</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are aware that a virtual conference is not the same as a traditional conference. Some features of a conference can just not be virtualized.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">However, online formats can also offer new opportunities that will allow us to be experimental, involve new ways of interaction, and provide new forms of feedback. The more we discussed these opportunities, the more we
are excited by them!</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The virtual conference will take place at
<span style="color:black">and around the </span>time originally planned: June 18 and 19, 2020<span style="color:black"> plus a few days before to also allow for some asynchronous formats.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">In addition</span><span lang="EN-US">, we will extend the deadlines for submission of full papers, conference papers, research idea proposals, and proposals for discussion forums by two weeks (i.e.,
<span style="color:black">until </span>April 8). </span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We will soon inform you via our webpage about further details, but we can already promise that the virtual ERS will provide several exciting new formats that we are sure you will like!</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please visit: <a href="https://www.ers-conference.org/">
https://www.ers-conference.org/</a></span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Carl Marcus Wallenburg & Andreas Wieland</span><span lang="DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Conference Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">European Editors of Journal of Business Logistics</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Professor Dr. Carl Marcus Wallenburg</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">The Kühne-Foundation Chair of Logistics and Services Management</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Director, Kühne Institute for Logistics Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">European Editor,
<i>Journal of Business Logistics</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Campus Düsseldorf, Erkrather Straße 224a, 40233 Düsseldorf, Germany</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Tel.: +49 211 44709-411; Fax: +49 211 44709-419</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><a href="mailto:wallenburg@whu.edu"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:blue">wallenburg@whu.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">;
<a href="http://www.whu.edu/lsm" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.whu.edu/lsm</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:DE">Research Conference ERS:</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000;mso-fareast-language:DE">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">European Research Seminar on Logistics and SCM</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">;
June 18+19, 2020 in the virtual space; <b><a href="http://www.ers-conference.org/"><span style="color:blue">www.ers-conference.org</span></a></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">Die Stiftung WHU ist Träger der WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management</span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE">WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management is the Business School of the WHU Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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