尊敬的IACMR会员及大会投稿人：
您好！
IACMR理事会一直密切关注着COVID-19疫情在世界各地的发展情况。虽然各国都在尽力控制疫情的蔓延，但是在未来几个月，国际旅行显然仍将受到严格的限制。目前，大家的首要任务是确保自己和家人的健康安全、减少社区感染的风险，并帮助您的学生应对疫情带来的连锁反应。上周，我们向参加大会投稿的会员征求了意见，根据大家的反馈结果，我们决定将大会的举办日期推迟一年：即从2020年6月推迟到2021年6月。
所有已被2020年大会录用的论文、专题报告会提案和职业发展工作坊提案，都自动转为2021年大会录用稿件。在适当的时候，我们将会请您确认，您的论文是否还计划在2021年的会议上发表。在大会延迟的一年中，您可以将您的论文提交到其它会议。如果这样，请您告知我们，并请您届时根据收到的反馈意见，对您的论文进行进一步修改和完善，从而在2021年IACMR大会上展示您修改后的论文。今年晚些时候，我们将再次开放会议投稿系统，为明年大会征集第二轮的论文，系统开放日期及其它信息我们将会陆续通知。
另外，由宋照礼和刘武两位教授组织的“新冠肺炎疫情对管理的影响”的特别论坛，原先设定的2020年3月31日的截止日期也将延迟，我们随后会发布他们的最新决定。
我们预计明年大会召开的具体日期将和今年大致同期（2021年6月中下旬）。我们希望明年的会议地点依旧在西安，但是具体安排仍需进一步商议才能确定。
同时，我们也在考虑是否在今年10月份为年轻学者举办研讨会。这个计划的目的是方便已经有论文被大会录用的博士生和年轻教师，能尽早宣讲或讨论他们的论文，以便及时收集反馈意见，进行论文修改或完善。我们将会进一步评估举办该研讨会的可行性。
对于已缴纳今年大会注册费的参会者，我们将在4月5日之前进行全额退款。如果您希望将已缴纳的注册费继续用于2021年的大会注册，请于3月25日前告知IACMR北京办公室：iacmrbj@pku.edu.cn。
在目前形势下，我们对于在几个月后不能聚首西安，共同聆听高质量的研究成果与教学理念，并与IACMR的新老朋友见面的事，感到十分遗憾。但是令人欣慰的是，一年后我们依旧可以交流、分享这些研究成果和学术观点，并与新朋旧友见面！我们深知对于很多人来说，现在是一个非常艰难的时刻，希望我们的这个决定至少可以使您更从容地安排自己的生活。目前我们只是暂缓了我们的计划、暂停了IACMR大会，一年后我们将迎来更精彩的一届大会！
祝您平安健康！
Ray Friedman
IACMR主席
井润田
2020年IACMR大会主席
One Year Delay of Biennial IACMR Conference
Dear IACMR Members and Conference Submitters,
Greetings!
The Executive Committee of IACMR has been following closely the COVID-19 developments around the world. It has become clear that international travel will remain highly restricted in the coming months, as people across the globe struggle to control the virus. We recognize that your top priority now is to ensure the health of your families and communities, and to help your students manage the ripple effect of the crisis. After soliciting and listening to member concerns and suggestions, we have decided to push back the date of our biennial conference by one year, from June 2020 to June 2021.
All papers, symposia, PDWs, and panels that were accepted for the 2020 conference are automatically accepted for the 2021 conference. You will be asked in due course to confirm whether you want your paper to be in the 2021 conference. You may submit your accepted papers to other conferences during this year delay, but if you do so please let us know; we expect that by presenting elsewhere you will have received feedback that leads to improvements in the paper, which can be incorporated into your IACMR presentation. We will also reopen the conference submission site for a second round of paper submissions later this year. Information and key dates for this submission period will be provided later.
We have also delayed the deadline for the special session on the impact of the coronavirus on management, organized by Wu Liu and Zhaoli Song. It was initially set for March 31, 2020. You will hear more about this later from Wu and Zhaoli.
We anticipate that the conference will be held on a similar date (late June, 2021), and we hope that we can use the same conference center in Xi’an. But it will take some time to finalize those plans.
We are also considering having a workshop in October for young scholars who feel a need to present their accepted papers more quickly. This would be for Ph.D. students, and early career junior faculty. We will do further assessment to determine if this option is feasible and desirable.
For those of you who already paid your registration fee, your payment will be fully refunded by April 5. If you would like to not receive a refund, and just use that payment for 2021 registration, please inform our staff in Beijing at iacmrbj@pku.edu.cn by March 25.
It is sad to know that we will not be gathering in a few months to hear great research and teaching ideas, or to meet new and old IACMR friends. But those ideas and those friends will be there – one year later. We know that this is a difficult time for many of you, and hope that this decision at least gives you the ability to plan your lives. Note that this is just a pause in our plans. The conference will be back, better than ever, next year. Stay healthy.
Ray Friedman
President of IACMR,
Runtian Jing
Program Chair, IACMR 2020 Conference.
