Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting and Management Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS
QUT's Faculty of Business is delighted to host the 16th Annual Conference on PBFEAM, being held from Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 July, 2008. For the first time in the 16-year history of the Conference, it will be held in Brisbane, Australia. Previous conferences have been held in Asia and the USA.
The conference theme for the PBFEAM 2008 is "Innovation for a Sustainable Future: Visions for 2020." Each discipline will host sessions involving invited and contributed papers dealing with contemporary issues relating to the 2008 conference theme.
We are delighted to announce our keynotes for 2008. In the Finance field we have two confirmed speakers - Stephen J. Brown from New York University and Wayne Ferson from the University of Southern California. The Accounting keynote is Elizabeth (Betsy) Gordon from Temple University, Philadelphia and the Marketing keynote speaker is Steve Worthington from Monash University, Australia. The keynote for Management and Entrepreneurship is Ben Oviatt. In April 2008, Ben will commence his new role with the University of New South Wales. Previously he was at the Georgia State University in Atlanta.
Contributed Papers
Papers dealing with topics related to the disciplines of Finance, Economics, Accounting, Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing are invited. Acceptance of contributed papers will be based on blind referee reports of complete papers. Submissions are now open with the final deadline for submission on Monday 3 March.
The program will commence with the Doctoral Colloquium on Wednesday 2 July, together with the Conference Registration and Welcome Reception that same evening. Keynote presentations, plenary sessions and delivery of academic papers will take place on Thursday 3 July and Friday 4 July. The Conference Dinner will be on the Thursday evening. We are also putting together an exciting social calendar of events, so please do consider extending your stay in our beautiful city and surrounds by including the weekend in your travel planning.
We look forward to welcoming you in July 2008 for what promises to be an exciting and multi-disciplined business event not to be missed.
PBFEAM Conference Secretariat.
Conference website: http://www.pbfeam2008.bus.qut.edu.au/
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