The 2010 annual meeting of the AIB-SE will be held in St. Petersburg, FL in cooperation with the annual meeting of the Southern Management Association (SMA), on October 27-29. You are invited to submit papers and presentation proposals addressing topics across a breadth of international business topics.

The Conference

The conference centers on the presentation of the newest ideas and work in progress to an international audience. Integration into the SMA annual meeting provides access to a comprehensive placement services, and several publishers’ exhibitions as well as the ability to cross-register and participate in both conferences in a single trip!

Other special conference features include two William J. Ziegler AIB-SE (USA) Student Awards, one for Ph.D. student papers and one for undergraduate or MBA student papers. See www.aibse.org/ziegler for the application form and more information. 

The conference's hotel is the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort in St. Pete Beach, Florida.  A beautiful peninsula located on Florida's West coast, the area is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the west and by Boca Ciega Bay to the east.  St. Pete is where you want to be! 

Areas of Interest

This year we are soliciting papers and symposia that address all areas of International Business from the perspectives of Research, Teaching, and Practice. All work submitted must be original and unpublished/not under review. You are invited to submit empirical, theoretical, and application-to-practice research papers on international business topics from all areas: economics, marketing, human resource management, strategy, finance, and accounting, including cross-cultural, trade, and country-specific studies. Submissions also are encouraged on IB andragogy, including experiential learning exercises and case studies with teaching notes. Works-in-progress, nearing completion, are also invited.

Mini Doctoral Consortium

On October 27, 2010 from 2 to 5:00 p.m., doctoral students are invited to attend a short Doctoral consortium.  For more information, please visit our website www.aibse.org .

Panel Proposals

Panel proposals must include a one-page overview together with one-page synopses of each presentation. All proposals must be received no later than June 15, 2010.

Submission to International Business: Research, Teaching and Practice and the Proceedings of the AIB-SE:

Papers presented at the 2010 AIB-SE Annual Meeting will be double-blind reviewed and published in the Proceedings of the AIB-SE.  Papers may also be considered for publication in our journal, International Business: Research, Teaching and Practice, a Cabell’s listed journal. 

All papers should be submitted electronically as email attachments in MS-Word. All submissions should be received no later than June 15, 2010. To be included in the official Conference Program, at least one author of each paper and. all members of a panel proposal must pre-register and present at the conference. Papers must conform to the Instructions for Authors in International Business: Research, Teaching and Practice, found through the journal link at http://www.aibse.org/. Actual text (not counting the title page) should not exceed 25 pages including all tables, references and illustrations.

The authors of Best Paper will be offered the opportunity to published it in International Business: Research, Teaching and Practice. The Best Paper will be designated as such both in the journal and on the AIB-SE website.

Your submissions, as well as requests to be a reviewer, session chair or discussant, should be sent to the Conference  Chairs at godars@wpunj.edu

Conference Co-Chairs

Susan H. Godar, Ph.D.                              

Dept. of Marketing & Management

William Paterson University. Wayne, NJ

973-720-3678. godars@wpunj.edu

Ilan Alon, Ph.D.  

George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Chair of International Business

Director, The China Center at Rollins College

Rollins College. Winter Park, FL

407-646-1512, ialon@rollins.edu