2012 - The Academic Forum May 2012 Cruise Conference

The Academic Forum announces its May 2012 Conference. The theme of this conference is:

Best Practices: People, Profit, Planet:
Strategic Collaboration, New Ventures, and Transformational Thinking in the 21st Century

The 2012 Conference will be conducted on the Royal Caribbean ship, Monarch of the Seas, departing from Port Canaveral, Florida on
May 21, 2012 and returning to Port Canaveral on May 25, 2012. Conference presentations will be conducted while the ship is at sea.

The Academic Forum welcomes qualitative and empirical research papers, abstracts, case studies, and works-in-progress on topics of interest in Business, Public Administration, and University Pedagogy, including:
?Accounting
?Business Communications
?Business Law
?Decision Sciences
?Distance Learning
?Economics
?Educational Administration
?Educational Planning
?Engineering (related to business)
?Entrepreneurship
?Ethics
?Finance
?Health Care Administration
?Hospitality Management
?Human Resource Management
?International Management.
?Management Information Systems
?Marketing
?Non-Profit, Public Sector and Public Administration
?Operations Management
?Organizational Behavior
?Teaching Methodologies
?Travel / Transportation / Tourism
?Other related Disciplines

All submissions are subject to a double blind, peer review process. Submissions accepted for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings (in CD-Rom format). At least one author on each submission must register for the conference for the paper or abstract to be included in the Proceedings.

Doctoral students are especially encouraged to present completed papers, dissertation proposals, papers in progress, and abstracts to the conference.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline - February 1, 2012
Early Conference Registration - February 15, 2012
Cruise Registration - March 1, 2012
Conference Cruise - May 21 ? 25, 2012
Final Manuscript - March 31, 2012