Conference Dates

January 3rd-4th, 2026

Submission Deadline

October 15th, 2025

Organiser

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, China

IBEC is pleased to announce the 24th annual research conference on January 3-4, 2026. The conference will take place at the International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), China. The objective of IBEC is to provide a forum for intellectual discussion among scholars and practitioners. We seek to provide a platform to analyze the strategic challenges faced by firms, educators, governments, and other institutions in the global arena.

The theme of this conference is Shocks and Resilience: Pathways to Financial Stability Amid Geopolitical Risks. The Program Committee invites full papers or extended abstracts for theoretical and empirical papers on these two special tracks: Accounting, Economics & Finance and Management & Marketing.

International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) is the Triple Crown accredited business school at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and the largest English-language business school in China. Founded in 2013 as the exclusive business school of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, International Business School Suzhou offers a unique blend of Western and Chinese academic practices.

IBSS features five academic departments spanning a wide range of business roles and activities, namely Accounting (ACC), Finance (FIN), Economics (ECO), Intelligent Operations and Marketing (IOM) and Strategic Management and Organisations (SMO). Through these five departments, the school offers 20+ undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to nearly 6,000 students, including the International MBA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Our 180+ full-time academic staff are an impressive mix of top international researchers and experienced business professionals, all of whom have earned doctorate degrees from highly reputable international institutions and/or gained professional experience abroad.

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About IBEC

IBEC is a non-profit organization registered in the USA, State of Tennessee. Members and participants are scholars from around the world interested in genuine scholarship in business disciplines related to international business and economies. The organization is directed by a conference chair who serves a three-year term, an assistant chair, a program committee composed of former chairs, and an editorial board composed of established scholars. We encourage new participants and interested scholars to work together with us and each other, learn from each other and define new ways for achieving true scholarship by utilizing new technologies and exchanging best practices.
In addition to seminar sessions on presented research during the annual conference, IBEC strives to add value by offering technical or special topic sessions, providing meetings for members to exchange ideas on research, teaching and potential cooperation, and features events related to the culture and economies of the host countries. We encourage reviewers and participants to assist authors in developing publishable papers and establishing lines of research.

IBEC Timeline:

2002 – San Francisco, US
2003 – San Francisco, US
2004 – San Francisco, US
2005 – Hawaii, US
2006 – Hawaii, US
2007 – San Francisco, US
2008 – San Francisco, US
2009 – Udaipur, India
2010 – Prague, Czech Republic
2011 – Guadalajara, Mexico
2012 – Hawaii, US
2013 –  Caen, France
2014 – Tianjin, China
2015 – Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 – Nürtingen, Germany
2017 – Puerto Montt, Chile
2018 – San Francisco, US
2019 – Rouen, France
2020 – Bergamo, Italy
2021 – virtually New Rochelle, New York
2022 – cancelled
2023 – virtually Tennessee State University, USA
2024 – hybrid, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
2025 – hybrid, Assumption University of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

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