2012 - The Academic Forum December 2012 Cruise Conference

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

Leveraging the Power of Convergence in a Divergent World

The December 2012 Conference will be conducted on the Royal Caribbean ship, Jewel of the Seas, departing from Tampa, Florida on December 17, 2012 and returning to Tampa on December 22, 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 - August 15, 2012
Early Conference Registration - September 1, 2012
Cruise Registration - September 15, 2012
Conference Cruise - December 17 ? 22, 2012
Final Manuscript - September 30, 2012