Published and effective on March 28, 2011 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　         Reviewed on November 16, 2014

This is a manuscript that provides Guidelines for an APMAA Annual Conference to future conference host schools. 

Applying Annual Conference, and Determining a Venue and Date
1. A school/university that wants to host an annual conference must send its proposal of intent to all  APMAA representative directors and president at least 3 years before the planned conference date. The proposal includes a conference objective and its theme, a conference and doctoral colloquium schedules, hotel and accommodations, transportation, budget simulations, a name list of conference organizing team etc. 

2. The host and venue of the forthcoming Conference should be announced 24 months before the conference date.

3. Conference Date should be determined by 13 months before the conference.

  1. Call for Papers Announcement

First announcement on APMAA Website and APMAA News should be 12 months before conference date. All local APMAA members should disseminate the announcement either through local mailing lists, local conferences, local professional journals or AIB-L (is brought to you by the Academy of International Business: For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp. To post message: aib-l@list.msu.edu), etc.

2. Conference CMT should be opened 10 month before the conference.

The use of Conference CMT is highly recommended.  Both primary and secondary subject areas in Concurrent track should be carefully developed so that it could facilitate to classify accepted papers into groups, and assign discussants and moderators effectively. The CMT site that is developed carefully makes it easy to administer a conference program too). 

Conference Management Toolkit (CMT)

3. Submission Due Date for First Full-papers is set at 5 months before the conference date. Acceptance and Rejection Notice should be sent 4 months before the conference date.. 

4. Submission Due Date for Proceedings paper is set at 3 months before the conference date.  

5. First Draft for Conference Program should be completed by 2 months before the conference date by the host/hostess in charge of annual conference. The draft should immediately be sent to Chair of the Board of Directors, President and Vice-presidents. The Tentative Conference Program should be uploaded on conference web-site two months before the conference date and be updated every one week. A note should be emailed timely to presenters, discussants and moderators to solicit their confirmation of the program and also encourage an early payment of the conference fees. Notice them that their name will be deleted from the tentative program if full payment of the conference fees will not be completed by three weeks before the conference.

7. Hard bound Conference Program, Abstract Book and Participant List, and USB Proceedings should be distributed to all conference participants. 

Conference Participation Fee and Membership Fee