Paper Development Workshop Guidelines

The Paper Development Workshop is intended for participants who would like to receive focused developmental feedback on a paper idea, article abstract, manuscript draft, or revise-and-resubmit paper. The workshop will focus primarily on topics in the field of Business and Management.

Participants may register for the workshop through EasyChair in the same way as for the standard conference track. In the first stage of submission, applicants should submit:

• the title of the paper, and
• an abstract in English.

The abstract does not need to be a standard conference-paper abstract only. Participants are encouraged to use the abstract to explain the current stage of their paper and to indicate the main issues they would like to address during the workshop.

These issues may include, for example:

• clarifying the research question,
• strengthening the theoretical contribution,
• improving the structure of the paper,
• refining the argumentation,
• developing the literature positioning,
• selecting a suitable target journal,
• addressing reviewer comments after a rejection or revise-and-resubmit decision,
• improving the abstract, introduction, or discussion section,
• identifying the main weaknesses that may lead to desk rejection,
• deciding how to frame the manuscript for an international academic audience.

For this reason, the submitted abstract may combine a short description of the paper with a brief explanation of the developmental questions the participant wishes to discuss at the workshop.

Once the abstract is accepted, participants will be invited to submit a full workshop proposal. The full workshop proposal must be prepared using the official Paper Development Workshop template and uploaded to EasyChair by the stated deadline.

The full workshop proposal should provide sufficient background for productive discussion during the workshop. Depending on the stage of development, participants may submit, for example:

• a structured paper proposal,
• an extended abstract,
• a partial manuscript draft,
• a full manuscript draft,
• or a revise-and-resubmit version accompanied by reviewer comments.

The workshop will be organized as an interactive developmental session based on peer discussion and moderation. The workshop will be moderated and coordinated by Michal Müller together with colleagues from the Department of Economic and Managerial Studies, Palacký University Olomouc, and will include the sharing of experience from peer review and editorial work for academic journals.

The purpose of the workshop is not formal presentation in the style of a standard conference panel, but rather constructive discussion of work in progress. Participants are therefore expected to come prepared for active engagement, collegial feedback, and open discussion of their own manuscript development challenges.