Topics. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

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1 Call for Papers Marmara University and International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability Committee cordially invite you to participate in ICOVACS 2015 which will be held at the Goztepe Campus of Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey on March ICOVACS 2015 (International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability) is the sixth in a conference series that aims to bring researchers in academe, industry and government from various countries together over a two day period in March to present and discuss performance measurement issues in the field of Operations Management. The first ICOVACS conference was held in Izmir, Turkey in 2008 with the theme Integrating Design, Logistics and Branding for Sustainable Value Creation. ICOVACS 2009 was held in Louisville, Kentucky with the theme Product Design, Branding and Logistics as a Leadership Strategy in a Global Market. The third ICOVACS conference was held in Valencia, Spain in 2010 with the theme Towards a Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility Strategies in the 21st Century Global Market. ICOVACS 2011 conference was held in Leuven, Belgium with theme Sustainable Value Chain Services Achieving Higher Performance in Health Care. The fifth ICOVACS conference was held in Izmir, Turkey in 2012 with the theme Value Chain Sustainability through Innovation and Design. Value chain service providers both in service and manufacturing chains have a significant opportunity to improve and sustain operational performance by analyzing their value chains in a holistic manner. Achieving a higher performance in a sustainable manner is the goal of all these services. The strategic aims of a business organization are to earn a return on capital, increase competitive power and market share, and decrease time to market. Performance measurement is of vital importance to the organizations to identify strategic objectives. Especially, performance measures should be based on Operations Management definitions. ICOVACS 2015 will take place in Marmara University (Goztepe Campus, Istanbul, Turkey), March and it will discuss and examine the importance of performance measurement in order to develop sustainable value chains unlocking new sources of competitiveness in manufacturing and service industries. All abstracts and full papers will be peer reviewed. All accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings in CD format. Programme and abstracts will be published in a conference book. Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend their papers for publication in international journals. Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): Balanced Scorecard Brand Management Business Process Reengineering Change Management Corporate Finance

2 Customer Relationship Management Data Envelopment Analysis Decision Analysis Energy Policy Enterprise Resource Planning Environmental Consciousness Forecasting Techniques Growth, Productivity & Competitiveness Human Resource Management Innovation Management Intellectual Capital Inventory Management Job Design and Work Measurement Lean Systems Learning Organizations Marketing Management Operations Scheduling Optimization Techniques Process Management Product & Process Design and Development Quality Management Reverse Logistics Risk Management Strategic Management Strategic Mapping Supply Chain Management Sustainability Technology Management Value Chain Management Important dates Deadline for Full Paper submission : November 28, 2014 Announcement of Accepted Papers : December 12, 2014 Deadline for Early Registration : December 19, 2014 Announcement of Final Program : February 6, 2015 Conference : March 12 13, 2015 To submit a paper and for detailed information, please visit

3 Organizing Committee Contact If you have any question, please to Organizing Institution Marmara University, Turkey Supporting Institutions Izmir University of Economics, Turkey Yıldız Technical University, Turkey Tilburg University, The Netherlands Oklahoma State University, USA Conference Chairs Gülfem Tuzkaya Bahar Sennaroğlu International Relations Chair Özalp Vayvay International Organizing Committee Jalal Ashayeri Tunçdan Baltacıoğlu Serol Bulkan Banu Çalış Cem Çağrı Dönmez Tuğba Efendigil Sunderesh S. Heragu Melike Demirbağ Kaplan Bahar Sennaroğlu Gülfem Tuzkaya Umut Rıfat Tuzkaya Çiğdem Alabaş Uslu Özalp Vayvay Öznur Yurt Support Committee Banu Akgün Aysun Bağlı Sinem Bektaş Hande Erol Bingüller Ayşenur Erdil Tilbe Çelik

4 M. Emine İpekçi Volkan Güler Oğuzhan Kalfa Agah Kalyancuoğlu Fatih Köten Selin Nazik Sarp Nuranel Ezgi Özdurak Hazal Tüfekçi Seca Nilay Türkçü Marmara Industrial Engineering Society (MieS) International Scientific Committee Timothy Anderson (Portland State University, USA) Necati Aras (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) Jalal Ashayeri ( Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Şükran Atadeniz (Yeditepe University, Turkey) Banu Atrek (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey) Birdoğan Baki (Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey) Nevin Karaarslan Balıkçı (Okan University, Turkey) Tunçdan Baltacıoğlu (İzmir Ekonomi University, Turkey) Hayri Baraçlı (İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey) Murat Baskak (İstanbul Technical University, Turkey) Maria Battarra (Southampton University, UK) Erkan Bayraktar (Bahçeşehir University, Turkey) Semra Birgün (Beykent University, Turkey) Tunç Bozbura (Bahçeşehir University, Turkey) Serol Bulkan (Marmara University, Turkey) Maria Manuela Cruz Cunha (Polytechnical Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal) Serdar Çelik (Siemens, Germany) B. Gültekin Çetiner (Marmara University, Turkey) Atilla Çifter (İstanbul Kemerburgaz University, Turkey) Emine Çobanoğlu (Marmara University, Turkey) Tuğrul Daim (Portland State University, USA) Meltem Denizel (Özyeğin University, Turkey) Özlem İpekgil Doğan (Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey) Cem Çağrı Dönmez (Marmara University, Turkey) Tuğba Efendigil (Yıldız Technical University, Turkey) Murat Erdal (İstanbul University, Turkey) Oğuzhan Erdinç (Turkish Air Force Academy, Turkey) Yasemin Claire Erensal (Okan University, Turkey) Ahmet Feyzioğlu (Marmara University, Turkey) Gülçin Büyüközkan Feyzioğlu (Galatasaray University, Turkey) Orhan Feyzioğlu (Galatasaray University, Turkey) Patricia Gomes (Polytechnical Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal) Kannan Govindan ( University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

5 Aslı Göksoy (American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria) Kerim Göztepe ( Turkish Army War College, Turkey) Bernard Grabot (École Nationale d'ingénieurs de Tarbes, France) Angappa Gunasekaran (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) Güner Gürsoy (Yeditepe University, Turkey) Joann Halpern (German Center for Research and Innovation, Newyork, USA) Marta Harničárová (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Sunderesh S. Heragu (Oklahoma State University, USA) Sergej Hloch (Technical University of Kosice with the seat in Presov, Slovak Republic) Yuan Huang (University of Southampton, UK) Zahir Irani (Brunel University, UK) Melike Demirbağ Kaplan (İzmir Ekonomi University, Turkey) Gülgün Kayakutlu (İstanbul Technical University, Turkey) M. Hakan Keskin (University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Turkey) Dündar Kocaoğlu (Portland State University, USA) İlknur Koçaş (Gedik University, Turkey) Elif Kongar (Bridgeport University, USA) Temel Kotil (Turkish Airlines, Turkey) Julian Lindley (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Elvira Maeso ( Universidad de Malaga, Spain) Dagmar Magurova (University of Presov, Slovakia) İffet İyigün Meydanlı (Arçelik A.Ş, Turkey) Margaret Morgan (University of Ulster, UK) Esther Alvarez De Los Mozos (Deusto University, Spain) Erdal Nebol (Yeditepe University, Turkey) Kıvanç Onan (Doğuş University, Turkey) Vildan Çetinsaya Özkır (Yıldız Technical University, Turkey) Doğan Özgen (Yıldız Technical University, Turkey) Ercan Öztemel (Marmara University, Turkey) Serhat Öztürk (KOSGEB, Turkey) Carlos Andres Romano (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) Aleda Roth (Clemson University, USA) Maria Jesus Saenz ( Zaragoza Logistics Center, Spain) Sibel Salman (Koç University, Turkey) Bahar Sennaroğlu (Marmara University, Turkey) Ertuğrul Taçgın (Marmara University, Turkey) Mehmet Tanyaş (Maltepe University, Turkey) Hakan Tozan (Turkish Naval Academy, Turkey) Gülfem Tuzkaya (Marmara University, Turkey) Umut Rıfat Tuzkaya (Yıldız Technical University, Turkey) Çiğdem Alabaş Uslu (Marmara University, Turkey) Çağlar Üçler (Özyeğin University, Turkey) Jan Valíček (Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic) Özalp Vayvay (Marmara University, Turkey) S. Serdar Yörük (Marmara University, Turkey) Işık Özge Yumurtacı (İzmir Ekonomi University, Turkey)

6 Öznur Yurt (İzmir Ekonomi University, Turkey) Selim Zaim (İstanbul Technical University, Turkey