The main theme of the Vaasa Conference on International Business is “Value Creation in Internationalization”. Both qualitative and quantitative papers based on single or multi-country samples especially in the following research areas (although also papers related to other areas are...

Sessions will cover the following (preliminary) list of themes: - Industry and Growth: What’s New? - Deindustrialization in Africa: What Went Wrong and Why? - Breaking-in: Can Africa Enter Global Markets? - Industrial Development and Infrastructure: How Large a Constraint? - Industrial...

Topic areas: - The interplay between new organisational designs and accounting - Globalisation and accounting practices - Implementing accounting change in organisations - New and emerging roles for accountants - Management accounting in fast growing companies - New challenges in corporate...

Climate change poses a major challenge for developing countries. Despite growing evidence to support low-carbon and climate-resilient strategies, many countries have yet to mainstream climate change within their national development plans. Bridging the gap between climate research and...