1. Agenda - General Assembly Reykjavik – 24th May 2007
Minutes of the General Assembly 2006 – Athens
Elections New Officers
Financial results 2006
Membership situation
Publications & IJRM
Future EMAC conferences
External Relations
Miscellaneous  
     

2. Elections 2007 - New Officers
President-Elect
George AVLONITIS
Treasurer
Sönke ALBERS

3. Elections 2007 - New Officers National Coordinators
Australia John ROSSITER
Greece Paulina PAPASTATHOPOULOU
Hungary Andras BAUER
Iceland Halldor ENGILBERTSSON
Ireland John FAHY
Italy Elisa MONTAGUTI
Korea Kyung Hoon KIM
Norway Sven HAUGLAND
Portugal Claudia SIMOES
Slovenia Maja MAKOVEC BRENCIC
South Africa Steven Michael BURGESS
Sweden Magnus SODERLUND
Switzerland Sabine EINWILLER
Turkey Zeynep GURHAN-CANLI

4. Welcome to 4 new Countries on the Executive Committee
Iceland
Korea
South Africa
Turkey

5. Our sincere thanks to those leaving the Executive Committee
Minoo FARHANGMEHR – National Coordinator Portugal
Mary LAMBKIN – National Coordinator Ireland
Kjell GRONHAUG – National Coordinator Norway
Ghislaine CESTRE – National Coordinator Switzerland
Pam MORISSON – National Coordinator Australia

6. Financial results Income & Expenditures 2006 2005 75.934,30 105.227,75
Surplus
2006
2005
15.737,78
13.412,83
Assets & Liabilities
2006
2005
,87
,66

7. Membership situation Total number of members
members (May 2007)
members
members
members
members
members
members
members
Top 5 Countries 2006
1. Germany
2. U.K.
3. Netherlands
4. Spain
U.S.A.

8. The International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM)
Stefan Stremersch & Don Lehmann
Co-editors IJRM

9. The IJRM Editorial policy (from the first editorial, vol. 24, issue 1)
Aim:
increase “global” visibility and availability
bring IJRM to the forefront of the field
Empirical papers
Not mere replication of established theories
relevance to marketing
Sufficiently rigorous
Interesting
exciting; “truly new ideas and methods” even if inconclusive
“executive program” abstract
tables and figures should be self-explanatory and can stand on their own
Afterthought section
ERB:
expanded + global (Europe; Asia & Pacific; US & Canada)
High quality; ties to different communities
AE’s
fast and short review process (2 rounds max, avg 2 months turnaround)
Increased conferences
feature forthcoming papers
feature special conferences
Stimulate self-cites

10. The review process Composed entirely new and larger board
Appointed 14 AE’s
Process:
2 reviewers on a paper (max 3 pages)
AE summarizes reviews and provides editor with a recommendation (max 1 page)
2 editors split manuscripts in half
Desk rejections have gone up (between 35 and 40%), as has the rejection rate (around 90%)
Decrease processing time, shorter process

11. Processing time (MS with decisions made within the year)
2004
2005
2006
2007*
Number of days with reviewers 61 66 62 41
Reviewer turnaround time 43 46 44 23
Processing time with editor 17 24 30 9
before sending to reviewers 7 13 19 4
after sending to reviewers 10 11 5
TOTAL processing time (including MS not sent to reviewers for final acceptance 71 81 80
* 2007: Excludes desk rejects, manuscripts submitted and decided under new editors

12. Number of new manuscripts
2000: 116
2001: 131
2002: 134
2003: 160
2004: 193
2005: 223
2006: 245
2007: 69*
* January 1 to April 30, 2007

13. 1st trimester new submissions* (2001-2007)
(April 30)
* Based on “date electronic” copy received.

14. Impact factor (Thomson ISI)
will be available in June 2007

15. Geographical origin of articles published in 2006
WEU: Western Europe USCA: United States & Canada
ROW: Rest of the World

16. Full text article downloads by region (March 2006 through March 2007)

17. Facts and Figures: Conclusions
Submissions decreased a bit, very recently
Reason: higher desk reject or random noise (-> JMR)?
Short of good submissions -> active sollicitation
Impact on the rise, and continue to stimulate it
Promote self-cites
Wider promotion of the journal’s best content:
Conferences
Annual editorial
Special issues and sections
Tension between high percentage of American contributors but low percentage of American readership:
Stimulate American readership

18. Future Plans
Backlog is now about 2 issues (accepted in May, published in issue 4)
Special issues/sections
IJRM on the Web
New editorial system

19. Future developments/plans
Special issues:
Marketing & Health 2008 (#4) – (Stefan Stremersch)
Organic Growth 2009 (#4) – (D. Lehmann & R. Winer)
Special sections:
Marketing Models 2009 (#2) - (L. Hildebrandt; U. Wagner & A. Bemmaor)
Innovations in Sales Force 2010 (#1 or #2) (S. Albers & M. Krafft)
Cross-country Competition (?) – (O. Heil & D. Montgomery)

20. The Elsevier Editorial System (EES)
Launched: February 27, used only for submission of new manuscripts
Features:
Internet based
Registered users only (Authors, editors, reviewers register to receive log-in name and password)
Reduces steps and time involved in processing submissions; inviting review team; processing documents to and from review team; communicating with authors, editors and review team
Better database management
Easy to create new functionalities in the database and the system itself to suit the journal’s needs
Easy search editorial team (prior literature, SCOPUS, other work authors)

21. 2009: The 38th EMAC CONFERENCE hosted by Audencia, Nantes
Future Conferences
2008: The 37th EMAC CONFERENCE hosted by the University of Brighton May : EMAC Doctoral Colloquium
May : 37th EMAC Conference
2009: The 38th EMAC CONFERENCE hosted by Audencia, Nantes
May 24-26: EMAC Doctoral Colloquium May 26-29: 38th EMAC Conference

22. External Relations
External Relations at EMAC, overseen by the VP of External Relations, serves EMAC by:
Extending EMAC's geographic boundaries to other region
through links with pan national general marketing associations.
Establishing links with country-based organizations within the
central scope of EMAC
Linking with more narrowly focused academic organizations
Linking with organizations with a practitioner-focus where
significant synergies may exist.
Links and synergies include to joint meetings, joint publications, cross-marketing of products and the like.

23. Activity Summary ANZMAC/BigMac (Nantes Next)
Sponsorship of ISMS Practice Prize/Finalist Reprise at EMAC Meetings
Practice Prize DVDs to All Active EMAC Members
EMC Discussions/Linkages
ESOMAR Coordination: Link/Volunteer needed
Global Marketing Association (??)
Others???

24. Miscellaneous
Q & A

25. Thanks for your attention See you all next year in… Brighton !