ITWVF
ASBBS Deadline Extended
SBI Deadline Extended
ABR
Who: Rice Alliance
When: December 11, 2014
What: 12th Information Technology & Web Venture Forum
Where: Houston, TX, USA
Who: American Society of Business When: February 19-22, 2015 and Behavioral Sciences Where: Las Vegas, NV, USA What: ASBBS 22nd Annual Deadline: November 7, 2014 Conference Who: Small Business Institute
When: February 12-15, 2015
What: 39th Annual Academic
Where: St. Pete Beach, FL, USA
Conference Who: Academy of Business Research What: Winter 2014 Intl. Conference
IEDC
Who: International Economic Development Council
Deadline: October 10, 2014 When: November 5-7, 2014 Where: San Antonio, Texas, USA Deadline: October 20, 2014 When: October 19-22, 2014 Where: Fort Worth, TX, USA
What: 2014 IEDC Conference Who: IBEC
IBEC
Deadline: October 17, 2014
When: January 5-8, 2015
What: 14th International Business & Where: Bangkok, Thailand Economy Conference Deadline: October 15th, 2014
Who: GIBERI
ICGBS
NASBITE
When: June 4-6, 2015
What: Intl. Conf. for Business, Eco- Where: Durban, South Africa nomics & Social Science Deadline: January 1, 2015 Who: NASBITE International
When: April 13-17, 2015
What: 28th Annual Conference
Where: St. Louis, MO, USA Deadline: November 30, 2014
Who: ACERE
ACERE
What: 2015 ACERE Conference When: February 3-6, 2015
IABE
Who: Intl. Academy of Business and Economics What: IABE 2015 Conference
IIBA
IJIER
ECEG
MUSTANG
AF
Where: University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Australia Deadline: October 17, 2014 When: June 18-20, 2015 Where: Rome, Italy
Deadline: April 10, 2015
Who: University of South Florida
When: March 28-April 2, 2015
What: 3rd Intl. Interdisciplinary Business-Economics Conference
Where: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Deadline: December 15, 2014
Who: International Journal for Innovation Education and Research
What: Volume 2, Issue 10
Who: University of Portsmouth
When: June 18-19, 2015
What: 15th European Conference on eGovernment
Where: Portsmouth, UK
Who: Mustang Journals
When: February 26-28, 2014
What: 4th Intl. Academic Conference
Where: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Who: GSTF
When: May 18-19, 2015
What: 5th Annual Intl. Conference on Accounting and Finance
Where: Singapore
Deadline: October 20, 2014
Deadline: November 27, 2014
Deadline: January 15, 2015
Deadline: January 16, 2015
SBANC
UCA
UCA
The Small Business Advancement National Center aims at increasing your knowledge of small business and entrepreneurship. All questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
The Department of Marketing and Management at the University of Central Arkansas invites application for a tenure-track position in Innovation & Entrepreneurship beginning Fall 2015. The appointment is at the Assistant Professor level.
The Department of Marketing and Management at the University of Central Arkansas invites applicants for the position of Executive in Residence, beginning January 2015.
JSBS
The Small Business Institute is seeking a Sponsor for the Journal of Small Business Strategy. The SBI seeks an academic institution as a Sponsor to provide all editorial and production services required to maintain the academic integrity of the JSBS efficiently and effectively.
ACME
The Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators in conjunction with the Federation of Business Disciplines is having it’s 42nd Annual meeting March 11-14, 2015, in Houston, Texas. The paper deadline is October 15, 2014.
ECRM
The University of Malta is having its 14th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies June 1112, 2015, on its campus in Valetta, Malta, and is accepting paper submissions. The deadline is November 20, 2014.
GAM
The European Scientific Institute and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, is having its 2nd Global Academic Meeting from April 1-4, 2015. The deadline for papers is March 1, 2015.
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“Companies are also making an effort to measure the nonfinancial factors that create value. ” The Business Case for Ethics and Social Responsibility Most managers now realize that paying attention to ethics and social responsibility is as important a business issue as paying attention to costs, profits, and growth. For one thing, in today’s information age, bad behavior is increasingly hard to hide, and “out-behaving the competition” can provide a real competitive advantage. Naturally, the relationship of a corporation’s ethics and social responsibility to its financial performance concerns both managers and management scholars and has generated a lively debate. One concern of managers is whether good citizenship will hurt performance — after all, ethics programs and social responsibility cost money. A commitment to sustainability means that things often have to be done in a more costly way. Hundreds of studies have been undertaken to determine whether heightened ethical and social responsiveness increases or decreases a company’s financial performance. Studies have provided varying results, but they have generally found a positive relationship between ethical and socially responsible behavior and firm financial performance. For example, a recent study of the top 100 sustainable global companies found that they had significantly higher sales growth, return on assets, profits, and cash flow from operations in at least some areas of business. Another review of the financial performance of large U.S. corporations considered “best corporate citizens” found that they enjoy both superior reputations and superior financial performance. Similarly, Governance Metrics International, an independent corporate governance ratings agency in New York, reports that the stocks of companies run on more selfless
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principles perform better than those run in a selfserving manner. Although results from these studies are not proof, they do provide an indication that using resources for ethics and social responsibility does not hurt companies. Companies are also making an effort to measure the nonfinancial factors that create value. Researches find, for examples, that people prefer to work for sustainable companies or companies that demonstrate a high level of ethics and social responsibility; thus, these organizations can attract and retain high-quality employees. Customers pay attention too. A study by Walker research indicates that price and quality being equal, two-thirds of customers say they would switch brands to do business with a company that is ethical and socially responsible. Another series of experiments by Remi Trudel and June Cotte of the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Businesss found that consumers were wiliing to pay slighlty more for products they were told had been made using high ethical standards. Enlightened managers realize that integrity and trust are essential elements in sustaining successful and profitabel business relationships with an increasingly connected and wellinformed web of employees, customers, suppliers, and partners. Although doing the right thing might not always be profitable in the short run, many managers believe that it can provide a competitive advantage by developing a level of trust that money can’t buy.
Merger And Acquisition Announcements Effect On Acquiring Company’s Stock Price: A Test Of Market Efficiency. This paper was written by Daniel Ferrara and Frank Bacon from Longwood University.
Executive Director
Abstract:
Dr. Don B. Bradley III
The purpose of the study is to test the efficient market hypothesis in regards to merger and acquisition announcements. This study will examine how recent merger and acquisition announcements of fifteen U.S. firms affect the firms’ stock price. Since merger and acquisition announcements are public information, the semi-strong efficient market hypothesis will be used to test the efficiency of the announcements. All merger or acquisition announcements analyzed are from the year 2013 and standard risk adjusted even study methodology (market model) will be used to test the hypothesis. (Page 9)
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2014 Nashville, Spring Conference
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