International business and economy CONFERENCE
IBEC is pleased to announce the 25th annual research conference on January 7-8, 2027. The conference will take place at the LaPenta School of Business, Iona University, USA. The objective of IBEC is to provide a forum for intellectual discussion among scholars and practitioners. We seek to provide a platform to analyze the strategic challenges faced by firms, educators, governments, and other institutions in the global arena.
The theme of this conference is Global Economic Transformation in a New Era: Strategies for Resilience, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth. The Program Committee invites full papers or extended abstracts for theoretical, empirical papers and case studies on these five special tracks:Accounting, Economics & Finance and Management & Marketing, Accounting & Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics, and Information Systems.
The LaPenta School of Business is the AACSB-accredited business school at Iona University and a premier destination for forward-thinking business education in New York. Founded to carry forward Iona University’s rich legacy of academic excellence, the LaPenta School of Business offers a dynamic blend of rigorous theoretical study and hands-on, real-world application.
LaPenta features five core academic departments spanning a wide range of business roles and operations, namely Accounting, Finance, Economics, Marketing, and Management and Information Systems. Through these active departments, the school offers 20+ undergraduate and postgraduate programs to a diverse body of students, including the highly sought-after Fast Track MBA, specialized MS degrees, and Advanced Certificate programs.
Our dedicated full-time academic staff are an impressive mix of highly published researchers and experienced corporate professionals, all of whom have earned doctorate degrees from highly reputable international institutions and/or gained senior-level professional experience across global industries.
About IBEC
About IBEC:
International Business and Economy Conference is a non-profit organization registered in the USA, State of Tennessee. Members and participants are scholars from around the world interested in genuine scholarship in business disciplines related to international business and economies. The organization is directed by a conference chair who serves a three-year term, an assistant chair, a program committee composed of former chairs, and an editorial board composed of established scholars. We encourage new participants and interested scholars to work together with us, learn from one another and define new ways to achieve true scholarship by utilizing new technologies and exchanging best practices.
In addition to seminar sessions on presented research during the annual conference, IBEC strives to add value by offering technical or special topic sessions, providing meetings for members to exchange ideas on research, teaching and potential cooperation, and features events related to the culture and economies of the host countries. We encourage reviewers and participants to assist authors in developing publishable papers and establishing lines of research.
IBEC Timeline:
2002 – San Francisco, US
2003 – San Francisco, US
2004 – San Francisco, US
2005 – Hawaii, US
2006 – Hawaii, US
2007 – San Francisco, US
2008 – San Francisco, US
2009 – Udaipur, India
2010 – Prague, Czech Republic
2011 – Guadalajara, Mexico
2012 – Hawaii, US
2013 – Caen, France
2014 – Tianjin, China
2015 – Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 – Nürtingen, Germany
2017 – Puerto Montt, Chile
2018 – San Francisco, US
2019 – Rouen, France
2020 – Bergamo, Italy
2021 – virtually New Rochelle, New York
2022 – cancelled
2023 – virtually Tennessee State University, USA
2024 – hybrid, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
2025 – hybrid, Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
2026 – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
2027 – Iona University, New Rochelle, New York
