The theme for the 2017 SMS Annual Conference, “Unconventional Strategies for Emerging Complexity and Intensifying Diversity,” embraces these challenges and the types of unconventional (i.e., unusual, avant-garde, exceptional, against-the-grain) strategies that might be used to address them.

Tracks:Accounting & Taxation; Aviation Management; Banking; Business Education; Business Ethics; Case Studies; Corporate Governance; Distance Education; E-Commerce; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Economics; Finance & Investment; Government Regulation; Health Care; Human Resources;...

The Southern Management Association (SMA) is a domestic affiliate of the Academy of Management. Its primary mission is to advance the research, teaching, learning, and practice of management.

2017 Conference Theme: “A New World of Opportunities for Meaningful Research and Learning – Building Theory and Contributing to Practice”

The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bring together central bankers, ministers of finance and development, parliamentarians, private sector executives, representatives from civil society organizations and...

Bringing together leading policymakers, experts and practitioners form both sides of the Atlantic, the second SUERF conference offers the opportunity to debate globalisation and the international economic order from a transatlantic perspective. The conference will address the following key...

Arranged around the theme Prospects for Growth: Reassessing the Fundamentals, the 2017 event will explore the tectonic forces reshaping the world economy – demographic shifts, political change, technological advances, and new trade dynamics – that are pressing businesses to rapidly evolve...

"At the Interface" is an invitation to reflect on the many ways that interfaces separate and connect people and organizations – and to consider the consequences of those separations and interconnections. Some questions to explore: What kinds of dynamics (linear, fluctuating, punctuated...

Proposals on any aspect of agricultural and resource economics, including teaching, research, and/or extension are encouraged.