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CALL FOR PAPERS — 11th CIMOT International Colloquium on the Management of Organizations and Territories

Territorial Governance, Innovation and Sustainable Development: What Managerial Models for Territories in Transition?

Fès, November 20–21, 2026

Organized by the Department of Management & the ERMOT Laboratory — Studies and Research in Management of Organizations and Territories — Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Fès.

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Papers may be submitted in French, English or Arabic. Complete manuscripts must be submitted in Word format, in accordance with the editorial guidelines, before May 31, 2026.

Each submission must include:

THEMATIC AREAS

Area 1 — Territorial Governance and Public Management New forms of territorial governance, multi-level coordination, public management reforms, decentralization and advanced regionalization, co-production of public policies.

Area 2 — Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Territorial Ecosystems Regional innovation systems, clusters, competitiveness clusters, incubators, startup dynamics, role of universities in regional innovation.

Area 3 — Territorial Marketing and Attractiveness Place branding, investment attraction policies, local resource valorization, territorial tourism, territorial image assessment.

Area 4 — Human Capital, Skills and Territorial Development Training policies, talent attraction, brain drain and return, education-employment alignment in Southern economies.

Area 5 — Finance, Investment and Territorial Development Territorial finance instruments, foreign direct investment, local financial markets, innovation financing, responsible finance.

Area 6 — Taxation, Financing and Territorial Governance Fiscal decentralization, territorial equalization, public-private partnerships, tax incentives and economic activity location.

Area 7 — Digital Transformation and Smart Territories Smart cities, digital divide, data sovereignty, transformation of entrepreneurial practices, digital leapfrogging.

Area 8 — Sustainability, Logistics and Territorial Resilience Regional sustainable development, circular economy, supply chains, energy transition, crisis resilience.

Area 9 — Health, Education and Territorial Social Capital Inequalities in access to services, health organization management, social capital, social innovation, solidarity economy.

CONTACTS

Email: colloque.ermot@gmail.com

Bouchra BENCHEKROUN AIBOUD: bouchra.aiboudbenchekroun@usmba.ac.ma — +212 661-359474

Asmae HOUMID BENNANI: asmae.houmidbennani@usmba.ac.ma — +212 666-580220

Hassane EL MACHHOUR: hassane.elmachhour@usmba.ac.ma — +212 661-835740

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