The 14th International Business and Economy Conference

The International Business and Economy Conference is administrated by an executive committee and an advisory board. To achieve the objective of providing a platform for intellectual discussion among scholars and practitioners, IBEC rests on the collaboration of recognized scholars and institutions who voluntary collaborate every year.

Executive Committee for IBEC 2015

Conference Co-Chairs
Carlos Trejo-Pech, Universidad Panamericana at Guadalajara, Mexico and Visiting Scholar in the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University, USA [ctrejo@up.edu.mx]
Uree Cheasakul, Dean, Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, [ureechs@au.edu]

Conference Chair Emeritus
 John F. Manley, Iona College, New York, USA [jmanley@iona.edu]

Treasurer
John F. Manley, Iona College, New York, USA [jmanley@iona.edu]

Arrangements Chair
Hla Theingi, Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, Assumption University, Thailand [hlatheingi@au.edu]

Editor-In-Chief:
Carlos Trejo-Pech, Professor, Universidad Panamericana at Guadalajara, Mexico and Visiting Scholar in the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Purdue University, USA [ctrejo@up.edu.mx]

Editors (in alphabetic order):
Jianing Fang, Associate Professor, School of Management at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA [jianing.fang@marist.edu]
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Assistant Professor, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University in New York City, USA [gevorkya@stjohns.edu]
Bruce Heiman, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University, CA, USA [bheiman@sfsu.edu]
NyoNyo Kyaw,  Associate Professor, Hagan School of Business, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY,USA [nkyaw@iona.edu]
Robert Manley, Professor and Dean Dowling College, NY, USA [manleyr@dowling.edu]
Elsa-Sofia Morote, Professor, Dowling College, NY, USA [MoroteE@dowling.edu]
Wanida Ngienthi, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand[wngienthi@au.edu]
Fernando Noriega, Professor of Economic Theory, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico [noriega@correo.azc.uam.mx]
Pavel Strach, Professor and Vice-Rector of International Relations, Škoda Auto University, Institute of Management and Marketing, Czech Republic [Pavel.Strach@skoda-auto.cz]
Nopphon Tangjitprom, Assistant Professor, Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand, [nopphontng@au.edu]
Sharon V. Thach, Professor, College of Business Administration, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, USA [sthach@tnstate.edu]

Web Page Chair
Tomáš Kincl, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic [kincl.tomas@gmail.com]

Proceedings Chair

Senior Executive Committee Members
Jay Kang, San Francisco State University, USA, [jkang@sfsu.edu]
Ameeta Jaiswal-Dale, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA [a9jaiswal@stthomas.edu]

IBEC 2015 Advisory Board
Gerald S. Albaum, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA
Carlos López-Hernández, Universidad Panamericana at Guadalajara, Mexico
Diana Heiman,   San Francisco State University, CA, USA
Vincent F. Maher, Iona College, New York, USA
Vladimir Pashkevich, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, USA
Chunmei Yang, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China
Anne Goujon Belghit, IAE Bordeaux IV, CITY, France
Paul Ghijsen, Open Universiteit in the Netherlands
Andrew C. Gross, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA
Jean Sussman, Quaker Oats & Pepsico (ret), Illinois, USA
Ed Lyons, Filtration Group/Filtrair (ret), Illinois, USA
Albert Inserra, Dowling College, New York, USA
Chunhong Zhu, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China
Anand Shetty, Iona College, New York, USA
Christian Deleuze, University of Caen (ret), Caen, France
Hwy-Chang Moon, Editor, JIBE; Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea
Maria Elena Gutierrez-Renteria, Universidad Panamericana at Guadalajara, Mexico
Hla Theingi, Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, Assumption University, Thailand