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2013 The Economics, Finance, Accounting & Management Research Conference, Hawaii
Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Sponsored by: The Journal of American Business Review, Cambridge Organized by: The International Business & Management Research Conference Late Submission Deadline: All submissions are subject to a two person blind peer review process. |
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GENERAL INFORMATION The Economics, Finance, Accounting & Management Research Conference Hawaii will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii . So you can do your travel arrangement accordingly.. Each presentation room will be equipped with an CLASSIC OVERHEAD PROJECTOR (ONLY) and a screen. So you need to bring your transparencies for presentation. The Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu is located at 2005 Kalia Road, Honolulu, HI 96815.
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SCHEDULE FOR SPECIAL EVENTS The Hawaii conference schedule was sent to all registered authors on April 11, 2013. If you did not get the schedule, please let us know. |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Kristina L. Guo, Professor Program Director, University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Pearl City, HI
Topic: Information Technology in the US Healthcare System: Trends, Implementation and Improvement.
Dr. Kristina L. Guo is Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Health Care Administration Program at the University of Hawai‘i-West O‘ahu (UHWO). Before joining UHWO, she was an Assistant Professor of Health Services Administration and appointed Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Florida International University. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from Florida International University and a Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Miami.
At UHWO, Dr. Guo teaches courses in public administration, health care administration, health policy and organizational behavior. Her primary areas of research are in health care and public policy and management. Her publications focus on the political, economic, organizational and management implications in the managed care environment. In particular, she has developed new models for describing the roles of managers in health care organizations. Dr. Guo has chaired and presented her work at various local, regional, national and international conferences. She was invited as the Keynote Speaker for the 2009 and 2010 International Business and Management Research Conference. Her book, co-authored with T. Buss and F. Redburn on Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation was published in 2006 by ME Sharpe Publications.
Prior to her academic career, Dr. Guo accumulated extensive experience in the health care field. As the Assistant Director of Technology Transfer at the University of Miami, she was responsible for managing the University’s intellectual property. She also served as an administrator for several departments at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Her practitioner’s background and knowledge has enabled her to integrate real world experience into her teaching, research, and career advisement for her students. She actively participates in community and professional service. Dr. Guo is a member of the editorial board for five journals. She is also a member of the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Hawaii-Pacific Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Larson Ng University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dr. Larson Ng is an Educational Specialist in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He actively conducts and publishes research in the fields of Native Hawaiian education and program evaluation, business/economic curriculum development, as well as organizational leadership and management assessment. As an instructor, he focuses his teaching in research methodology and business/economic literacy. Dr. Ng is a member and serves as a panel reviewer for the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as well as an active member of the AERA’s Measurement and Research Methodology Division; the Business Education and Computer Information Systems Research special interest group; the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas special interest group; and the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific special interest group.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Wayne D. Jones University of South Florida
Topic: Academic Entrepreneurship: Creating and Sustaining an Innovative Culture in Universities
Dr. Wayne Jones received his doctorate in International Management (International Organization and Strategy) from the University of Hawaii and his MBA (Management and Human Resources with an additional concentration in Entrepreneurship), Master of Science (International Business), and Bachelor of Science (Geology and Geophysics, Physical Geography) degrees from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has been a business owner and worked as an environmental scientist, international consultant, martial arts instructor, and university professor in large and small, new and established, and public and private organizations and government entities in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Jones has taught in undergraduate, MBA, M.S., Masters in Biotechnology, EMBA, and executive training programs and given invited presentations to doctoral programs in major national and international universities, including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of Hawaii, California State University, Hawaii Pacific University, Roosevelt University, University of Tampa, Bond University (Australia), Chinese Academy of Sciences (People’s Republic of China), and the Maastricht School of Management/Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Vietnam). He most recently was hired to be the Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the University of South Florida Polytechnic where he designed new courses and programs related to entrepreneurship and technology and innovation management, worked to establish an entrepreneurship center, assisted foreign firms seeking to make “soft landings” in the United States, and developed international initiatives in an effort to help build a new and independent academic institution.
Dr. Jones has been the coeditor/coauthor of a book on China’s business environment, has publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, has had papers presented at major academic conferences in the United States, China, Barbados, and Finland, and has worked on projects for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and United States Department of Education. His main research interests are at the intersection of strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business and include projects in developed and developing economies related to entrepreneurial strategies, innovation, organizational learning, and competitive advantage, the performance implications of family business culture in different countries, and IT competency in emerging nations. He has worked with collaborators from various schools and departments (e.g., Management, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, MIS, Education, and Psychology) in universities in the United States and abroad, as well as on solo efforts using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
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