International Conference on Business and Social Sciences (ICBS 2018) 27-29 April 2018 Phnom Penh, Cambodia The objective of the International Conference on Business and Social Sciences 2018 (ICBS 2018) is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Business and Social Sciences. The International Conference on Business and Social Sciences (ICBS 2018) will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 27-29 April, 2018. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. The organizing committee invites academicians, researchers, PhD candidates and practitioners worldwide to submit full papers to ICBS 2018. ICBS 2018 is a premier forum for presenting of new research findings. This conference brings together avid researchers from local and foreign universities. Topics of interest for submission include, but not limited to: Business Accounting I (Audit/Financial/Tax/ AIS) Accounting II (Cost/Managerial) Business Law and Business Ethics Public Policy in Business / Business Strategy Cases, Workshops, Special Sessions E-Business Economics I (Macro/ Micro theory) Economics II (Applied and Empirical Research) Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Innovation and Entrepreneurship Finance I (Financial Market, Derivatives, Investments) Finance II (Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance) Innovative Teaching I (Curriculum Design, Electronic Resources) International and Global Business/Economics Management and Organizational Behavior Management Information Systems Marketing/ e-Marketing Logistics and Transportation Production and Operations Management Quantitative Methods and Management Science Student Papers in all Fields of Business and Economics Supply Chain Management and Quality control Social Sciences Teaching and Learning the Arts Arts Policy, Management and Advocacy Arts Theory and Criticism Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts Visual Arts Practices Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music Literary Arts Practices Media Arts Practices: Television, Multimedia, Digital, Online and Other New Media Other Arts Media, Film Studies, Theatre, Communication Aesthetics, Design Language, Linguistics Knowledge Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness History, Historiography Literature/Literary Studies Political Science, Politics Teaching and Learning Globalisation Ethnicity, Difference, Identity Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation First Nations and Indigenous Peoples Sexuality, Gender, Families Religion, Spirituality Cyberspace, Technology Science, Environment and the Humanities Other Humanities Sociology: concepts and practices Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows What are the behavioral sciences? Psychology of the social Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice Economics as social science Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony Philosophy’s place in the social sciences Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice Health in community Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences Social sciences for the professions Social sciences for social welfare Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence Social sciences addressing social crisis points Technologies in and for the social Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’ The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health Political science as disciplinary practice Investigating public policy Law as a social science Criminology as social science Public health Social sciences in the service of social policy: risks and rewards Social transformations: structure and agency in social dynamics Accounting for the dynamics of citizenship, participation and inclusion Trust, social capital, social cohesion and social welfare Politics in, and of, the social sciences Interdisciplinary perspectives on politics, public policy, governance, citizenship and nationality Security and insecurity, conflict and cohesion, war and peace, terror and anti-terror The neo-liberal state and its critics Policy measures: assessing social need and social effectiveness Of human lifeways: anthropology in its contexts Of human lifecourses: family, childhood, youth, parenting and aging Of human origins: paleontology, primate evolution, physical anthropology Ethnographic methods Social meanings: language, linguistics, discourse, text Cultural studies as a constitutive field Social science stances: modernism and postmodernism; structuralism and poststructuralism Where humanities and social sciences meet Social structure and human culture: the sociological and the anthropological Interdisciplinary perspectives on human differences Identities in social science: generational, gender, sexuality, ethnic, diasporic Perspectives on, and voices of, difference: multiculturalism and feminism Religion and the human sciences Health, wellbeing and culture Human movement: migration, refugees, undocumented migrants The dynamics of globalization, diaspora and diversity Globalized economics: inequalities, development, ‘free’ and ‘fair’ trade Developed and developing worlds Inequalities in international perspective Poverty and global justice Human rights in global perspective The local and the global The natural and the social: interdisciplinary studies Human environments Sustainability as a focus of interdisciplinary study Health and the environment People, place and time: human demography Environmental governance: consumption, waste, economic ‘externalities’, sustainability, environmental equity Human interests in the natural sciences: the politics of the environment Management as social science Culture in organizations Technology and work The social dynamics of organizations Human resource management Workers’ rights Corporate governance Organizational and social sustainability Corporate social responsibility Knowledge ecologies: embedded knowledge in the organizational setting Tacit and explicit knowledge Private and public knowledge Scenario building and futures forecasting Organizational change Education as a social science The learning sciences as an interdisciplinary endeavor Action research: the logistics and ethics of interventionary social science Teaching and learning the social studies History teaching and learning Economics teaching and learning Geography teaching and learning Technology in learning and learning about technology Media studies as social science Communications as a social science Information and communications technologies The social web: the internet in its social context Human-computer interactions Literacies as a social learning experience