The VSIB conference is broadly intended to provide a platform for academics, practitioners, researchers and policymakers from various fields to exchange knowledge and evolutions of disciplines related to international trade policy, the impacts of globalisation, the experience of countries at different levels of development and the interaction of different countries, different institutions in the global context. Participants will also have an excellent opportunity for presenting new researches, exchanging information and discussing current issues of international economics, business and finance.
The scientific and organizing committees welcome submissions in all areas of international economics, business and finance as well as their interfaces. The following topics, but not limited to, are particularly welcome: COVID-19 and the new Trade directions; New Insights and Frameworks in the Digital Age; New Barriers to Digital Trade; Trade Digitalisation and Regulatory Policies; Climate Policy and Trade; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Performance and Trade; Cross-border Activities of Firms; Economic and Financial Integration; Globalization and Business Environment; Global Value Chain; International Capital Flows; International Corporate Governance; Social Responsibility and Sustainability; Supply Chain Management; Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Trade Network and Spillover Effects; Trade, Growth and Investment.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Roger Strange,Professor of International Business, University of Sussex, United Kingdom & Editor-in-Chief of International Business Review
Roger Strange is Professor of International Business in the Department of Strategy & Marketing, having joined the University of Sussex in September 2009. He was previously Professor of International Business at King’s College London, where he was Head of Department from 1990 to 1995. Roger is a Fellow and a former President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA), and was the UK National Representative on the EIBA Board from 2009 to 2017. He organized the 2012 EIBA Annual Conference at Sussex and the 2007 AIB-UKI Annual Conference at King’s College London. He is currently Visiting Professor at the University of Pavia (Italy).
Roger Strange is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Business Review, a Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Business Policy, the Journal of World Business, the Global Strategy Journal, the Asia Pacific Business Review, and the Journal of Management & Governance.
Roger is the author/editor of fourteen books, and over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. He is a co-author (with Pervez Ghauri & Kjell Grønhaug) of the popular textbook, Research Methods in Business Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Cong Pham,Senior Lecturer in Economics, Deakin University, Australia
Cong Pham is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics in Deakin Business School. Prior to joining Deakin, Cong worked as a consultant in the Development Research Group, the World Bank, Washington D.C. from 2005 to 2008. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Syracuse University, New York, USA.
His research interests include empirical international trade, applied econometrics, economic development and Asian economies such as China, India, and Vietnam. He has published in journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the World Economy, the Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, the International Review of Economics and Finance, the World Development, Economic Modelling, and Southern Economic Journal.
PAST SYMPOSIUM - VSIB2019 & VSIB2021
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:
31 Aug 2022
Notification of review results:
4 Sept 2022
Registration deadline:
2 Oct 2022
Conference event:
31 Oct – 1 Nov 2022
ADVISORS
Gene Grossman, Professor of Economics, Princeton University, United States
Edward Cartwright, Professor of Economics, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Khuong Nguyen,Professor of Finance, IPAG Business School, France
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Tuan Luong, De Montfort University, United Kingdom