ACBPP 2015 - The Asian Conference on Business and Public Policy

The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is excited to announce the Sixth Asian Conference on Business and Public Policy 2015. We invite you to join us in the vibrant city of Kobe, Japan, from November 5-7, to experience Japan and explore the conference theme "Power" in an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary setting. On behalf of IAFOR and the conference chairs, we hope to see you this year in Kobe, Japan. Professor Stuart D.B. Picken Chairman of the IAFOR IAB Professor Jerry Platt ACBPP2015 International Director of Program Submit an abstract: http://iafor.org/cfp Enquiries: acbpp@iafor.org Web address: http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/acbpp2015/ ACBPP2015 Conference Theme: "Power" Power as a commodity has challenged the minds of social scientists and philosophers while its exercise has always fascinated historians. From classical thinkers' works such as Aristotle's Politka or Machiavelli's Il Principe through modern figures who manipulate power in the media, like Silvio Berlusconi or Rupert Murdoch, to the vast networks that support major heads of state, power has been a necessity to some or like an aphrodisiac to others. The dynamics of power and its associations with wealth and status now shape the contemporary world more visibly than ever. It is a research challenge to all fields of the social sciences to offer some explanation of its magnetism and its mechanisms. The term "power," among its many other uses, can be applied to identify one of the most important mechanisms employed in the corporate world. It can refer to anything from the exercise of authority in an office context to the manipulation of complex negotiations leading to a large-scale merger or acquisition. The psychological use of power and the psychological structure power plays of any scale share numerous common characteristics. They entail persuasion, compromise, positional movement, veiled threats, or the obverse side of blackmail, namely "white-mail," where the moral stakes are raised to the point at which the opposition risks loss of reputation by resisting cooperating. As a conference theme, power in its many aspects is a hub concept that researchers, analysts, and practitioners alike can reflect on and speak about both in the abstract and from experience. Power and its perception can therefore be an invaluable concept in the exploration of the globalization of both business and politics, and we expect this theme to excite a number of stimulating research paths, and look forward to their outcomes as we gather in Kobe in 2015. Call For Papers - Please submit your abstract through the online submission system: http://iafor.org/cfp This conference invites and encourages active participation of academics, policy-makers and business professionals. Functional areas of management, marketing, accounting, finance, logistics, operations all can make significant contributions to the conference theme and related concerns. Also encouraged are papers on public policy effectiveness, efficiency and equity, on tax and fiscal policy, and on their implications for wealth redistribution. Abstracts should address one or more of the streams below, identifying a relevant sub-theme: Global Shifts Disruptive Innovations Management Amidst Change 21st Century Commerce Innovations in Financial Markets Open-Government Initiatives Business, Public Policy and Power Public-Private Partnerships Government Mandates The Ethics of Government Secrecy Submissions are organized into the following thematic streams: Business - a - general economics and teaching Business - b - history of economic thought, methodology, and heterodox approaches Business - c - mathematical and quantitative methods Business - d - microeconomics Business - e - macroeconomics and monetary economics Business - f - international economics Business - g - financial economics Business - h - public economics Business - i - health, education, and welfare Business - j - labor and demographic economics Business - k - law and economics Business - l - industrial organization Business - m - business administration and business economics; marketing; accounting Business - n - economic history Business - o - economic development, technological change, and growth Business - p - economic systems Business - q - agricultural and natural resource economics; environmental and ecological economics Business - r - urban, rural, and regional economics Business - y - miscellaneous categories Business - z - other special topics Politics - political participation and representation Politics - governance, institutions and public policy Politics - gender, sexuality and politics Politics - political economy, welfare and labour Politics - international governance, conflict and development Politics - political theory Politics - multiculturalism Politics - human rights Politics - social movements Law - civil law and the court Law - environmental and resource management law Law - international law: contemporary issues and solutions Law - corporate and commercial law Law - banking, securities and finance law Law - law of human rights and social justice Law - public law and policy Law - dispute resolution: contemporary approaches Law - law of intellectual property, information and new technologies Law - laws of health and medicine Law - labour and employment law Law - criminal justice policy and law Law - legal theory, methodology and ideology Interdisciplinary law, economics and politics Interdisciplinary law and politics Interdisciplinary law and economics Interdisciplinary politics and economics