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