Greetings from the Institute of Strategic and International Studies!
We believe that all members and friends of the Institute, including all past, present and potential future participants in our conferences, have already noticed that for almost one year now, we have been partnering successfully with the International Academy for Advancement of Business Research™ (IAABR™). Also, we have been watching with a growing alarm the crimes against humanity committed by an organization acting in a part of the Middle East, and which has been known under the names ISIL, IS, and ISIS. As socially responsible members of society, we ardently condemn these heinous crimes, and we feel that consistent with our personal values and the guiding principles of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies®, we must change our acronym to InstSISWorld®. Therefore, from now on, you can see this acronym, along with its shortened version, or InstSIS® also legally acquired by our organization, in all official announcements made by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies®.
This year, InstSISWorld and IAABR held successful conferences in Miami Beach (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ivan Manev, Dean of University of Maine’s Business School, USA); in Key West, Florida (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Charles Wankel, Professor of Management at St. John's University's Tobin College of Business, New York; recipient of many awards from the Academy of Management; and Vice Rector at the Poznan University of Business in Poland); in Paris (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sheila Puffer, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of International Business, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; former Editor of The Academy of Management Executive; and a former member of the Academy of Management’s Board of Governors); in Venice (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Joseph Rallo, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Texas Tech University System); and in Orlando (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Khalid Alkhathlan, Dean of King Saud University’s Business School in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). At all these conferences, we were very happy to notice that the number of participants was growing, as well as was the number of represented countries which steadily surpassed the figure 50! Moreover, we are very proud of our growing diversity, as our participants came from various countries and all continents around the world!
In a little more than a month, we are going to hold a joint conference together with IAABR in Manila from November 5th to November 7th (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ester Garcia, President of the University of the East, Manila, Philippines), to be followed by our traditional New Year’s Conference in Miami Beach from January 4th to January 6th, 2015 (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. William Rapp, Henry J. Leir Professor of International Business at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s School of Management and Director of Leir Center for Financial Research) and our spring break conference in Key West, Florida from March 15th to March 17th, 2015 (Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Charles Wankel, Professor of Management at St. John's University's Tobin College of Business, New York; recipient of many awards from the Academy of Management; and Vice Rector at the Poznan University of Business in Poland).
Please visit our Website www.ISISWorld.org for regular updates on our future conferences:
Paris, France: May 18-20, 2015
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: July 5-7, 2015
Orlando, Florida: August 20-22, 2015
Las Vegas, Nevada: October 25-27, 2015
We are proud to announce that the Keynote Address at the Las Vegas Conference will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Rosalie L. Tung, the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada); formerly the President of the Academy of Management in 2003-2004 and past President in 2004-2005; at present, Dr. Tung is the President-Elect of the Academy of International Business; and she has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, and as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, among numerous other high-level professional accomplishments.
This has been the fifth year we experimented with electronic submissions through our website. As we move from the current hybrid system to full online interface, and as we implement other electronically driven transaction modalities, we strongly encourage you to (re)visit our site www.ISISWorld.org, and make full use of the facilities and options it offers. In addition to our conferences, InstSIS journals will continue to be published in January, March, May, July, September, and November of every year. Therefore, we now encourage all year-round submissions. Among other challenges, growth of our conferences and journals has meant pressure on our paper review infrastructure, and we believe the above innovations will make the whole paper submission-review-feedback process an enjoyable experience for all.
With warmest regards,
Executive Board of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies
Global Office: Miami, Florida, USA