This workshop builds on the MMOBE program (Master in Management, Organization and Business Economics) and the DEMO PhD program (Doctorate in Economics Management and Organisation). The Master in Management, Organization and Business Economics offers specialised and advanced training in the field of business research to initiate in business research and its relevant dimensions, offering an analytical focus of the managerial decisions and problems that affect businesses. The Doctorate in Economics Management and Organisation is a rigorous and internationally competitive PhD program for training high quality and publishable research in science based approaches to management of organisations.

These programs pool the efforts of three separate universities, The Departments of Business Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The Department of Business Economics at Universitat de les Illes Balears and the Department of Business Management at the Universidad Pública de Navarra. 

The workshop deals with business research questions from the perspective of economics. The topics covered are wide enough to include key issues of the economics of the firm as corporate strategy, corporate governance, human resource management or innovation activities, to mention some of them.

This ninth IBEW is organised by Rafel Crespi and Lluis Bru, Professors at the UIB. The format, as in previous editions, will be in a day and a half days presenting and discussing regular research papers in a stimulating interactive and participative way.

The IBEW is hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears Department d'Economia de l'Empresa at the Campus de la Carretera de Valldemossa, km7. The Campus is located between Palma de Mallorca and Valldemossa (see head pictures). The workshop will include presentations an discussions of regular research papers related to the topics covered by the IBEW. The workshop will end up with a closure dinner on Friday 12th for all participants.