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Dear Colleagues: On behalf of my fellow conference organizers (Chris Yenkey, Tatiana Kostova and Gerry McDermott) and myself, I would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal or panel proposal for and participate in our IB Frontiers Research Conference, International Business in an Era of Institutional Disruption. (Please see attached CFP.) We will hold it Feb 1-3, 2018, at the DMSB in sunny Columbia SC. We will provide for meals and accommodations for those participants with accepted proposals. The deadline for your proposal is Oct 15, 2017. We have been fielding ideas for different panels. Please send us your proposals even if the panel for instance is not fully stacked, as it looks like we have some complementary and overlapping ideas and we can combine them. This will be the first of regular conferences or workshops that aim to stimulate cutting edge, inter-disciplinary thinking on key issues at the intersection of IB and institutional analysis, broadly construed. To achieve those aims, we are trying to give the February event a more workshop feel with and emphasis on discussions of new ideas and broader perspectives. Hence we ask at this stage for proposals to give you more flexibility, and we will try to make it a relatively small conference and with significant disciplinary diversity. We also will have some special guests to debate one another on relevant topics. We have already secured the participation of Prof. Mark Blyth of Brown University and Dr. Preston Keat of the international bank, UBS, to discuss the future of financial markets and the Euro. We really hope you can participate. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Best, Marc van Essen Associate professor in international business Academic director of the undergraduate international business program Sonoco International Business Department Moore School of Business University of South Carolina 1014 Greene Street Columbia SC 29208 USA (+01) 8037775669 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.