Call for Papers

Child and Teen Consumption 2006
2nd international conference on pluridisciplinary perspectives on child and teen consumption

April 27-28, 2006

Center for Marketing Communication
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen, Denmark


This conference is aimed toward establishing a dialogue between specialists from a variety of
academic disciplines in order to explore the phenomenon of young consumers in today’s
society.

During the two days, research will be presented on children’s and adolescents’ position in the
consumer society, the manners in which children develop their consumer competences, and
consumer socialization in general. The emphasis is on creating a multi-disciplinary
discussion uniting ideas from historical, psychological, sociological, managerial and other
social science perspectives.

The first international conference was held at the European Center for Children’s Products,
Faculty of Business Administration, University of Poitiers, France. The conference hosted 200
participants representing researchers and practitioners as well as students. Due to the
success of this first meeting, it was agreed to make this a biannual event. We – The
Copenhagen Business School – volunteered to host the second conference, and we welcome
you to join us in creating a tradition worthy of the interest in the field.

The structure of the conference will be plenary sessions and workshops.

Conference language: English.


The conference is broadly oriented in terms of academic fields, thematic approaches and
methodology. The following list of themes is offered as a guideline:

• Children’s and adolescents’ purchasing behaviour
• Children’s roles in the consumer decision-making process
• Conditions of children’s store visits
• Socio-cognitive development of young consumers
• Children and advertising
• Socialization processes of children and adolescents as consumers
• Consumption learning
• Ethics and children’s consumption
• The globalization of children’s culture and youth culture
• Media and the protection of young consumers
• Marketing actions applied to emerging domains of child consumption
• The role of new media in the consumer socialisation of children and adolescents
• Public policies to protect children in the consumer society
• Research methods to investigate child and teen consumption
• Children’s consumption practices and children’s cultures


Deadlines

September 15, 2005: Submission of abstracts. See guidelines for abstracts.

December, 2005: Notification to the authors regarding the acceptation of abstract based on
double blind review.

March 1, 2006: Submission of full paper. See guidelines for full paper.

April 27 - 28, 2006: The conference will be held on April 27-28, 2006 at the Center for
Marketing Communication at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Participants will be
welcomed from the evening of April 26 at a reception held at the Copenhagen Business
School.


For further information, please visit our website: http//www.cbs.dk/CTC2006



General/practical information

More information about the conference will be available on the conference website: http//
www.cbs.dk/CTC2006 and will continually be updated.

For any questions, please contact:

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Copenhagen Business School
Center for Marketing Communication
Department for Marketing Communication
Solbjerg Plads 3
DK-2000 Frederiksberg