2025 ABEAI Conference Information

The 21st Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas

at the Hyatt Place Fort Worth Historic Stockyards

November 16-18, 2025

Call for Papers Details

Submission Deadline July 31, 2025

ABEAI provides the following opportunities for participating scholars: 

  • All papers/abstracts are double-blind reviewed and accepted manuscripts/abstracts will be published in our refereed electronic conference proceedings.
  • ABEAI Conference best papers will be published in the Journal of Business Leadership  (JBL). JBL is indexed by  Cabell and other sources. 
  • All accepted and presented Conference papers are eligible for publication in the Electronic Conference Proceedings.  

Faculty members, students and all other scholars and practitioners are invited to present their research in all fields of business, economics, and entrepreneurship.

The Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International (ABEAI) sponsors the annual ABEAI Conference.  This forum provides an opportunity for the exchange of research and ideas among faculty members, students, scholars, and practitioners in business and entrepreneurship.

ABEAI provides the following opportunities for participating scholars:   

  • The ABEAI conference will be held in November. The even years the conference will be held in the Hawaiian Islands. Odd years the conference will be held on the mainland.
  • All accepted papers/abstracts are double blind reviewed and will be published in the Electronic Conference Proceedings.
  • ABEAI Conference best papers are eligible for publication in the Journal of Business Leadership (JBL), indexed by Cabell and academic indices.  
  • Most ABEAI Conference papers may be eligible for publication in the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA), indexed by Cabell and other academic indices.

Doctoral students are especially encouraged to participate.  Conference topic areas include the following:

  1. Accounting I (Audit/Financial/Tax/ AIS)
  2. Accounting II (Cost/Managerial)
  3. Business Law and Business Ethics.
  4. Public Policy in Business / Business Strategy
  5. Cases, Workshops, Special Sessions
  6. E-Business
  7. Economics I (Macro/ Micro theory)
  8. Economics II (Applied and Empirical Research)
  9. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
  10. Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  11. Finance I (Financial Market, Derivatives, Investments)
  12. Finance II (Financial Institutions, Corporate Finance)
  13. Hospitality management
  14. Innovative Teaching I (Curriculum Design, Electronic Resources)
  15. International and Global Business/Economics
  16. Management and Organizational Behavior
  17. Management Information Systems
  18. Marketing/ e-Marketing
  19. Logistics and Transportation
  20. Production and Operations Management
  21. Quantitative Methods and Management Science
  22. Student Papers in all Fields of Business and Economics
  23. Supply Chain Management and Quality control

Please contact the conference committee by email at: ABEAI.submission@gmail.com or call Dr. Lisa Andrus, conference organizer and owner of Andrus Hospitality, LLC at 412-608-2769.

Dr. Lisa Andrus, owner of Andrus Hospitality, LLC., is the event coordinator for the 2025 ABEAI conference. All aspects of the conference including paper submissions, acceptance letters, registration fees and conference communications will come from Dr. Andrus and her team at Andrus Hospitality, LLC.

To contact the Applied Business an Entrepreneurship Association International office:
P. O. Box 83731
Portland, OR 97283
United States
ph: 503-943-7220
fax: 503-943-8041
abeai@up.edu