Topic: Sustainable Infrastructure Infrastructure - understood to include water supply and sanitation, flood protection, roads and transport, and energy and telecommunications - has major implications at the household level (health, education, and social mobility), at the firm level...

Conference Sub-themes: - Ecosystems and Well Being: Oceans, Forests, Mountains and Wetlands; Resilience; Valuation; Management. - Collective Action and Local Governance: Community, Institutions, Transaction Costs, Trust. - Climate Change: Science of Climate Change; Agriculture & Food Security;...

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.

Conference theme: “Natural Resources, Border Issues, and Local Economics: Navigating Regional Economies in a Time of Change”

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

The workshop will focus on the broad economic implications of commodity markets. We invite researchers to submit papers on any aspect of the economics of commodities (including energy, metals, and agricultural products) and their interaction with the broader economy.

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...

Delivering on the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris climate agreement will require accelerating public-private cooperation and deploying new technological solutions. The Sustainable Development Impact Summit aims to advance both by providing a...