Abstracts are being accepted for a session on “Globalization and Sustainable Development” at the Eastern Economic Association meeting in Boston, March 9 – 11, 2012. The session is organized on behalf of the Asian Institute of Management Journal of Asian Business Editorial Office. Papers presented at the session will be given an opportunity to be reviewed for publication with the journal.

The AIM Journal of Asian Business Editorial Office collaborates with the University of Michigan-Ross School of Business for journal articles on public policy and business strategy as they pertain to Asian business, and as they occur in the context of Asia and the world. Papers may be on the topics below:
 

• Trade and effects of Globalization: The effect of international trade on domestic natural resources; the implications of exporting resource-intensive commodities; the effects of international trade on local pollution.
   
• Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Development: Does FDI promote technology leapfrogging?
   
• Environment and Sustainability Issues: Environmental spillovers; Examining the evidence: Are foreign firms cleaner than the domestic firms; The Pollution Halo Hypothesis- do MNCs diffuse good environmental management to domestic firms; The environmental situation in China; Sustainable cities and local sustainability; Limits of local and urban sustainability; Sustainable agriculture and the conservation of wild biodiversity; The environmental Kuznets curve; Pollution Haven Hypothesis; Ecological foot printing; Natural resource accounting; Sustainable welfare; Sustainable consumption; Services and the environment; Environmental regulation.
   
• Corporate Sustainability: Eco-efficiencies and social responsibility; Environmental management standards for corporate accountability.
   
• Resource dependence and security issues: Unequal development and resource curse; Energy security issues; Sustaining social development in resource-dependent economies; The “limits to growth” debate.
   
• Critical emerging Issues: International Cooperation; Organizations Responsible for Sustainable Development; Discussions on preserving cultures in the midst of globalization.
   
   

Please send your abstracts to: Nadia Doytch at ndoytch@newhaven.edu

Further Conference Information:
Abstracts Submission Deadline: December 15, 2011
Conference Registration Deadline: January 18, 2012
Hotel Reservations Deadline: January 18, 2012
Conference Website: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2012/

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