IVBEc 2025 |
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Theme: Business Ethics and the Future of Capitalism
IVBEC 2025 invites scholars and participants to explore and examine “The Future of Capitalism.” Important questions include, but are not limited to: How might the rise of right-wing governments throughout the world and the repression of free speech affect the operation of capitalism? Capitalistic innovation has given us Artificial Intelligence (AI), but is AI a threat to job creation, innovation, and growth, all matters typically thought to be benefits of free market capitalism? Is it even possible to think rigorously about the future of capitalism? More generally, how should we be thinking the future, and what are possible traps in trying to understand unfolding trends and developments? Is there a single future or multiple futures?If we can comprehend the future to some extent, how, if at all, should this understanding alter individuals’ practical attempts to live a thriving life and communities’ efforts to secure justice for of all of their members?
Papers do not have to be specifically on this theme, but IVBEC organizers always encourage authors to relate their arguments to the conference theme if and when doing so is appropriate.
Keynote speakers from academia and business will examine some of these pressing questions at this conference.
Abstracts Due: July 15, 2025. (500 Words, Word or PDF format)
Email to: [email protected]
Abstracts/proposals (Preference given to themed proposals)
We require a no more than 500-word proposal (Word or PDF formats) for one of the following: an empirical, theoretical, or pedagogical research paper; a practical case study; an emerging approach to teaching business ethics; or, a panel session of business and academic leaders discussing problems and challenges concerning ethics and ethical decision making in business.
Full paper submissions will be considered for the Patrick Primeaux Best Paper Award; selected through a blind referee process based on the quality of the submission and their relation to the theme of the conference. Full papers must be submitted by August 15, 2025 for Primeaux consideration.
IVBEC 2025 invites scholars and participants to explore and examine “The Future of Capitalism.” Important questions include, but are not limited to: How might the rise of right-wing governments throughout the world and the repression of free speech affect the operation of capitalism? Capitalistic innovation has given us Artificial Intelligence (AI), but is AI a threat to job creation, innovation, and growth, all matters typically thought to be benefits of free market capitalism? Is it even possible to think rigorously about the future of capitalism? More generally, how should we be thinking the future, and what are possible traps in trying to understand unfolding trends and developments? Is there a single future or multiple futures?If we can comprehend the future to some extent, how, if at all, should this understanding alter individuals’ practical attempts to live a thriving life and communities’ efforts to secure justice for of all of their members?
Papers do not have to be specifically on this theme, but IVBEC organizers always encourage authors to relate their arguments to the conference theme if and when doing so is appropriate.
Keynote speakers from academia and business will examine some of these pressing questions at this conference.
Abstracts Due: July 15, 2025. (500 Words, Word or PDF format)
Email to: [email protected]
Abstracts/proposals (Preference given to themed proposals)
We require a no more than 500-word proposal (Word or PDF formats) for one of the following: an empirical, theoretical, or pedagogical research paper; a practical case study; an emerging approach to teaching business ethics; or, a panel session of business and academic leaders discussing problems and challenges concerning ethics and ethical decision making in business.
Full paper submissions will be considered for the Patrick Primeaux Best Paper Award; selected through a blind referee process based on the quality of the submission and their relation to the theme of the conference. Full papers must be submitted by August 15, 2025 for Primeaux consideration.