Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Monday, March 5, 2012

AJBS will hold its 25^th annual meeting, in cooperation with the Academy of International Business (AIB), in Washington, D.C.. The AJBS conference will take place on June 28^th (Thursday evening) through noon on the 30^th (Saturday), with the AIB conference following on June 30^th – July 3^rd. This year’s AJBS conference is organized by the Program Chair, Professor Johny K. Johansson, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.

The AJBS annual conference provides an opportunity for discussion of current developments and research on a range of business, public policy, and teaching issues related to Japan. We welcome scholars, students, and practitioners from all disciplinary backgrounds who are interested in Japanese business issues. Papers submitted for presentation at the AJBS conference presentation are double-blind peer reviewed. Accepted papers are considered for publication in a special issue of the organization’s affiliated journal, Asian Business & Management.

The co-location of the AJBS and AIB conferences provides a unique opportunity. With one trip you can attend both the most prestigious professional meeting dealing with international business and an intimate conference that focuses specifically on issues associated with Japanese business. The AJBS conference provides additional opportunities for journal publication and best paper awards, as detailed below.

Authors may submit papers to either or both of the AJBS and AIB conferences. AJBS will consider submissions that have already been presented elsewhere, but not those previously published in a journal or book. You are encouraged to consider submitting a paper to AJBS tailored to the specialized audience at the AJBS conference, as well as a modified version to AIB that is appropriate for the wider audience in attendance there.

Paper submission: The submission deadline for 2012 AJBS conference is Monday, February 20, 2012.  Please submit papers as email attachments in MS-Word format to Johny Johansson ( johanssj@georgetown.edu ). Please put "AJBS Conference Submission" in the subject line for proper routing.  (Note: If you do not have MS-Word, use a basic text format. Please do not submit papers in PDF format.) Paper submission guidelines are available on the AJBS website (http://www.ajbs.org ). Following the double-blind review process, authors will be notified about decisions by early April, 2012.

Conference Registration: Registration for the AJBS conference is handled through AIB.  Attendance at the AIB conference is mandatory to attend the AJBS conference.   AJBS and AIB are separate organizations, each with their own membership requirements and conference fees, membership must be current in both to attend.  Paying once through AIB for both conferences simplifies the billing process. 

Asian Business & Management: In 2003 AJBS established a partnership with the journal Asian Business & Management (ABM), published by Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/abm/index.html ). As in recent years, the editor of ABM, together with the AJBS conference committee, will select several papers from the 2012 conference program to be considered for publication in a special volume of the journal. At the time of submission, please indicate whether you wish your paper to be considered for publication in the special issue of ABM. 

Palgrave Macmillan – AJBS Best Paper Award:  Palgrave Macmillan generously sponsors a “Best Paper” prize at the annual AJBS meeting. A committee will review the finalist papers and select the winning paper.  

For further information: Details regarding the Washington D.C. meeting venue and AIB conference are available at http://aib.msu.edu/events/2012 . For questions regarding the AJBS conference and submissions, please contact the Program Chair Johny Johansson (johanssj@georgetown.edu). For questions or comments regarding AJBS, please contact the AJBS Executive Director, Diane Bird (ajbs@ajbs.org) or the AJBS President Norihiko Takeuchi, (ntake@busi.aoyama.ac.jp).