CALL FOR PAPER AND PARTICIPATION
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PACIFIC RIM MANAGEMENT
(Association for Chinese Management Educators "ACME" XVIII Annual Meeting) http://www.myacme.org
July 24-26, 2008, Doubletree International Plaza Hotel, 655 Dixon Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2008 to submit an abstract
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Chinese Management Educators (ACME) will be held in Toronto, Canada. The conference will serve as important forum for the exchange of ideas and information to promote understanding and cooperation among the various businesses. This year’s conference theme is “Global Supply Chain Efficiency”. Special focuses will be placed on supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise resources planning, and the business strategies for global supply chain networks for North America and Asian areas such as China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Individuals from academic, business and public sectors are invited to submit competitive papers, detailed abstracts, or cases. Proposals are solicited for tutorials and panels to be held together with the conference. Proposals should include a tile, an abstract and a short biography of the author(s). Panel proposals should also include a list of possible panel members. Please email the proposal to myacme2008@gmail.com. Please refer to list below for subject areas for the conference.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
All competitive submissions must be submitted in MS Word format electronically. All submissions will be blind refereed by independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in ACME referred proceedings: ACME Transactions 2008. Outstanding papers will be selected and recommended to be published by the following international academic journals: International Journal of Management Theory and Practices and other journals. By submitting a manual script, the author certifies that it is neither copyrighted nor previously published. In addition, at least one of the authors certifies that he/she will attend the conference to present the paper if it is accepted.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS
All submissions should be doubled spaced. Each paper should include two title pages. The first one should have the paper title and author information, and the second one should only have the paper title for the blind referee process. Author information should include the following: (1)paper title, (2)author name(s), (3)affiliation(s), (4)address(es), (5)e-mail address(es), and (6) track that best fits the submission. All submissions should be sent electronically and directly to Dr. Huei Lee at myacme2008@gmail.com by May 15, 2008. No hardcopy is acceptable. Notification of acceptance will be mailed by the Program Chair on June 1, 2008. Accepted papers must be typed according to the format defined by the Program Chair and Proceeding Editors. Accepted final draft should be send to Dean Edward H. Chou at acme2008@nccu.edu,tw (and cc to myacme2008@gmail.com) by June 15, 2008.
ACME OFFICERS
President: Wann-Yih Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
President-Elect: Huei Lee, Eastern Michigan University, USA
VP-Publication: Edward H. Chou, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
VP-Treasurer: Victor Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
VP-Secretary: P. Pete Chong, MingChi University of Technology, Taiwan
IJMTP Editor-in-Chief: David Chou, Eastern Michigan University, USA
IJMTP Managing Editor: J. Michael Tarn, Western Michigan University, USA
ACME Directors & Program Committee
Houn-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jason Chen, Gonzaga University, USA
Kuo Lane Chen, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Sung-Shun Weng, Fu-Jan Catholic University, Taiwan
Les Tien-Shang Lee, Kun Shan University, Taiwan
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conference Chair: Wann-Yih Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, wanyi@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Program Chair: Huei Lee, Eastern Michigan University, USA, huei.lee@emich.edu
Local Coordinators: Diana Kao, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada. kao@uwindsor.ca; Linying Dong, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ldong@ryerson.ca
Proceedings Editor: Edward H. Chou, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, acme2008@nccu.edu,tw
Web Master: Shi-Ming Huang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, smhuang@mis.ccu.edu.tw
International Liaisons
Diana Kao, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada
T. S. Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hongyu Lee, Fudan University, China
Daning Sun, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Eric T.G. Wang, National Central University, Taiwan
Soushan Wu, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Ming-Hsien Yang, Fu-Jan Catholic University, Taiwan
Edwards Vic, UNSW Sydney, Australia
ACME 2008 TRACKS AND TRACK CHAIRS
| Area/Track | Track Chair | E-mail Address |
Accounting：
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| Accounting Information Systems | Yi-Min Yen, University of Alaska-Anchorage , USA |
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Accounting (Others Areas) |
Otto Chang, California State University , San Bernardino , USA |
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| Information Systems： | ||
Current Issues in Information Systems |
Chen, Edward T., University of Massachusetts - Lowell, USA |
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| Data Communications & Network | Victor Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | victor@mail.ncku.edu.tw |
| Data Mining/Business Intelligence | Frank Lin, California State University, San Bernardino, USA | |
| Data Warehousing | David Yen, Miami University, USA | yendc@muohio.edu |
| Database Management | Kuo Lane Chen, University of Southern Mississippi, USA | kuo.chen@usm.edu |
Decision Support Systems
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Shin-Yuan Hung, University of Arizona, USA and National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
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| E-Business and E-Commerce | David Chou, Eastern Michigan University, Amy Chou, Illinois State University, USA | david.chou@emich.edu aychou@ilstu.edu |
| E-Government | Zachery Wong, Sonoma State University, USA | wongz@sonoma.edu |
| Enterprise Resource Planning Systems | Diana Kao, University of Windsor, Canada | kao@uwindsor.ca |
| Healthcare Information Systems | Ruey-Kei Chiu, Fu-Jan Catholic University, Taiwan | im1004@mails.fju.edu.tw |
| Information Management | Ming-Hsien Yang, Fu-Jan Catholic University, Taiwan | yang@im.fju.edu.tw |
| Information Security | Chen-chi Shing, Radford University, USA Mike Tarn, Western Michigan University, USA | cshing@radford.edu mike.tarn@wmich.edu |
| Knowledge Management | Jason Chen, Gonzaga University, USA | chen@jepson.gonzaga.edu |
| Systems Analysis and Design | Min C. Ma, MingChi University of Technology, Taiwan | minma@mail.mit.edu.tw |
| Web Design and Applications | Hsiang-Jui Kung, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA | hjkung@georgiasouthern.edu |
| Wireless Communication & Mobile Commerce | Dong-Her Shih, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan | shihdh@yuntech.edu.tw |
| Information Systems (Other Areas) | Sung-Shun Weng, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan | im1032@mails.fju,edu.tw |
| Production & Operations Management/Supply Chain Management： | ||
| Supply Chain Management | Stephen Shih, Southern Illinois University, USA | shihcs@siu.edu |
| Quality Management | Available | Available |
| Technology Management | Chia-Hao Chang, University of Michigan-DearBorn, USA | chchang@umich.edu |
| Scheduling/Production & Planning Control | Jiaqin Yang, Georgia College & State University, USA | jyang@gcsu.edu |
| Management Science/Operations Research | Dalen Chiang, California State University-Chico | dchiang@csuchico.edu |
| POM/SCM (Other Areas) | Chiang, Wen-Chyuan, The University of Tulsa, USA | wen-chyuan-chiang@utulsa.edu |
| Statistics | Thomas C. Chiang, Drexel University, USA | chiangtc@drexel.edu |
| Marketing： | ||
| Consumer Behavior | Paul Chao, Eastern Michigan University, USA | paul.chao@emich.edu |
| Customer Relationship Management | Yun Chu, Robert Morris University, USA | chu@rmu.edu |
| International Marketing | Paul Chao, Eastern Michigan University | paul.chao@emich.edu |
| Marketing (Other Areas) | Wann-Yih Wu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | wanyi@mail.ncku.edu.tw |
| Finance： | ||
| Investment | K.C. Chen, Cal State University, Fresno, USA | kchen@csufresno.edu |
| Insurance | Available | Available |
| Finance (Other Areas) | Available | Available |
| Management： | ||
| Business Policy and Strategy | Diana Wong, Eastern Michigan University, USA | Diana.wong@emich.edu |
| Human Resources | Tzai-Zang Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan | leetz@mail.ncku.edu.tw |
| Entrepreneurship | Available | Available |
| Organizational Behavior & Cross-Cultural Management | Thomas Tang, Middle Tennessee State University, USA | ttang@mtsu.edu |
| Healthcare Management | Kuang-Hung Hsu, Chang Gung University, Taiwan | jane@mail.cgu.edu.tw |
| Management (Other Areas) | Kern Kwong, California State University, Los Angeles, USA | Kkwong2@calstatela.edu |
| International Business | Li Lee, York University, Canada | leeli@yorku.ca |
| Business Laws and Ethics | Linying Dong, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada | ldong@ryerson.ca |
| Economics | ||
| Economics Forecasting | Ji Chou, Shih Hsin University, Taiwan | chouji@cc.shu.edu.tw |
| Economics (other areas) | Ben-Chieh Liu, Chicago State University, USA | bencliu678@hotmail.com |
| Hotel and Tourism Management | Ming-Ji James Lin, National Central University, Taiwan | jameslin@cc.ncu.edu.tw |
| Teaching： | ||
| Business Education | Hui-Lien Tung, Troy University, USA | tungh@mail.paine.edu |
| Distance Learning/e-Learning | Houn-Gee Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan | hgchen@ntu.edu |
| Distance Delivery Technologies/Techniques | Kai Koong, University of Texas – Pan American, USA | koongk@utpa.edu |
| Business Curriculum | Available | Available |
| Instruction Innovation | Lai Liu, University of Texas – Pan American, USA | liul@utpa.edu |
| Others | Available | Available |