Since its inception 2 decades ago, we strived to collectively and as individual members to encourage the development of entrepreneurship and small businesses, we are affiliated to the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and have participated successfully within the forum on an international level.

Website: www.saesba.co.za

The CIBER Research Institute has the following academic conferences scheduled:

IBER Conference (business and economics) and TLC Conference (teaching methods, styles, and administration). The next IBER Conference will be held in Las Vegas, NV. The TLC Conferences are being held in Las Vegas NV, Disney World FL, Puerto Vallarta Mexico, Athens Greece, and Santorini Greece.

ABR Conference (business and economics). The ABR Conference will be held in Disney World Florida, USA and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

EABR Conference (business and economics). The next EABR Conference will be held in Athens and Santorini (one of the Greek Islands). Future EABR Conferences are planned for Lake Constance (Germany), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Rothenburg (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Florence (Italy), and Seville (Spain).

Website: www.CIBERinstitute.org/conferencesMain.htm

The European Marketing Academy (EMAC) is a professional society for people involved in marketing theory and research. It aims to promote an international exchange of research results and research ideas. EMAC organizes an Annual Conference which provides such a forum. At the conference, research projects in various stages of development and covering all major areas of marketing research are presented and discussed.

Website: www.emac-online.org/associations/emac/index.asp

The 2005 European Applied Business Research Conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Athens, Greece. Come to present papers on economics, business, or business-related fields. A paper presentation is not required for attendance. The conference provides a forum for faculty to present their research on any business, economics, or business related topic. For both conferences, there is a best paper award for the best paper in each session. Papers winning the best paper award will be reviewed for possible publication in one of our five academic journals. Papers not winning a best paper award may be submitted for possible publication.

Website: www.wapress.com/EABRCMain.htm

The department of Management at the University of Innsbruck invites participants and contributors to the European Conference on organization, knowledge, learning and capabilities in Innsbruck Austria. The last conference was held April 2-3 2004 and the aim was to continue the success of the previous conferences, held in Athens in 2002 and Barcelona in 2003, in encouraging critical debate around the various perspectives on knowledge in organizations.

Website: www.uibk.ac.at/congress/oklc2004

Sponsored by the Center for Study of Western Hemispheric Trade from Texas A&M International University. You are cordially invited to submit papers for presentation at this timely conference, which brings together academic researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to discuss an array of topics affecting the western hemisphere as we end a decade of NAFTA, and face further integration of the Americas in the 21st century. The conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade.

This year, as an added feature, the conference will take place concurrently to The Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance’s Sixteenth International Conference on Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures.

Website: freetrade.tamiu.edu/

The 7th Annual International Conference in Lisbon/Leiria, Portugal features cutting edge work and encourages multi-disciplinary as well as discipline-specific research. The theme is global markets in dynamic environments: making positive connections through strategy, technology, and knowledge. It is co-sponsored by: St John’s University New York, U.S.A., the Peter J. Tobin College of Business, the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, the faculty of Social Development Studies & the faculty of Economic Sciences, the Robins School of Business, and the Russian Academy of Sciences and State University of Management.

Website: www.gbata.com

5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business
Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel
Hawaii, USA

The main goal of the 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Business is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various business related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to business to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

Website: www.hicbusiness.org/cfp_bus.htm
Email: business@hicbusiness.org

The 50th World Conference of the International Council for Small Business is being held in June 2005 in Washington DC. The International Council for Small Business founded in 1955 is the oldest and largest global membership organization dedicated to examining and discussing issues affecting the teaching, research, and delivery of entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise world-wide. Collectively, the over 2,000 members of the ICSB through their eleven national affiliates work and assist tens of thousands of individuals currently in business or desiring to start a business relatively soon.

The conference organizers anticipate approximately 500-700 of the leading teachers, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners interested in entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise attending this conference. It will include individuals from around the world including Europe, Brazil, Japan, Republic of China, Singapore, Korea, Southern Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Puerto Rico/Caribbean, and the United States.

Website: www.usasbe.org/conference/2005-ICSB/index.asp

IBEC is annually organized by a group of volunteer business and economics faculty members at St. Norbert College. Each IBEC is chaired by a different person who is supported by a small group of fellow faculty members.

"The goal of IBEC is to foster intellectual discussions and disseminations on topics related to international business and economics, with participation by researchers and practitioners across all disciplines. We are neither solely a business nor an economics conference, and we do not limit ourselves to discussions that pertain to managerial issues. Increasingly we live in a ‘global village,’ and the pervasiveness of business and economics endeavours mandates us to provide a venue where informal and friendly discussions of the congeries of these global cross-currents can be exchanged." Held in October.

Website: www.allconferences.com/conferences/20031215125945/

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussions among policy makers, scholars and corporate leaders from a wide range of European and other countries. Specifically, the conference is designed to share the latest research findings on the performance of the emerging Eastern/Central European economies, industries and firms as well as to reflect on the implications of these findings for corporate strategies and business practices in the transition and emerging new market countries.

Website: www.ciber.lt/ibconference2004/index.php

The Performance Measurement Association is a global network for those interested in the theory and practice of performance measurement and management. It is essentially a voluntary network which has a multi-disciplinary constituency covering accounting, economics, engineering, finance, HR, IT, logistics, marketing, operations, purchasing, sales, strategy etc. Its development and continued growth is overseen by a board of leading academics in the fields of performance measurement and management. The conference is held biannually.

Website: www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/cbp/pma/

This Forum is an annual meeting point for academics and professionals related to marketing activities. It is also open to all those researchers in any area of knowledge who through their work and contributions can favor the development and the advancement of marketing as a science and as a technique or as an art.

The papers can be oriented towards investigations and theories that are related to or can be applied to marketing. They can originate in any of the disciplines, such as: economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, mathematics, law, etc.

Held in November at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Website:
Email: marketeo@ccee.ucm.es

IMDA organizes annual World Business Congress in different parts of the world. The conferences are usually held in June or July.

The 14th annual World Business Congress is being held at the Euro-Arab Management School in Granada, Spain. The theme is: Global Business: The Challenges and Responsibilities In A World of Shifting Alliances.

Business people, public policy makers, and academics can choose from a wide range of topics within global business development. The Congress will offer keynote addresses, formal paper symposia, case study presentations, special sessions, such as "Meet the Editors," and an industry leadership and public policy makers panel discussions as well as a Doctoral Research Seminar. A paid tour to a number of interesting sites in the close vicinity of Granada as well as a possible two-day visit to Tangier, Morocco will be available for Congress participants (see registration form).

Website: www.imda.cc/

The aim of OKLC will be to continue the success of the previous conferences in encouraging critical debate around the various perspectives on knowledge in organizations.

Submissions are encouraged around such topics as innovation, knowledge sharing, the relationship between the management of knowledge and advances in communication and information technologies, organizational learning and communities or Practice, etc. The aim is to advance the knowledge-based view of the firm - mirroring current academic and practitioner debates on the centrality of knowledge in organizations.

Website: www.uibk.ac.at/congress/oklc2004/

www.uibk.ac.at/congress/oklc2004/

Website: www.cob.tamucc.edu/sam/conferences/

Founded in 1984, the World Association for Case Method Research & Case Method Application (WACRA®) evolved from contacts of professors, researchers, policy-makers, professionals and business executives into a worldwide interdisciplinary organization. These individuals shared the common interest of studying and applying the Case Method in research, teaching, planning, training and development.

Founded in 1984, the World Association for Case Method Research & Case Method Application (WACRA®) evolved from contacts of professors, researchers, policy-makers, professionals and business executives into a worldwide interdisciplinary organization. These individuals shared the common interest of studying and applying the Case Method in research, teaching, planning, training and development.

Website: www.wacra.org/

This conference is organized by the William Davidson Institute (WDI) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and hosted this year by the National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam (NCSSH) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It will provide a forum for leading economists and other social scientists working on transition and on broader issues of development and institutional change to meet, present new research, develop collaborative relationships, and complete ongoing research.

Website: www.wdi.bus.umich.edu/events/