Title: Conference in Business, Accounting and Management (CBAM 2012)
Semarang, 6 – 7 December 2012

Theme: Green Business and Sustainability: The Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Management Approaches and Accounting Practices

Background and Objectives
CBAM is an annual forum to link academic and business entities hosted by Faculty of Economics, UNISSULA, Semarang. The Role of ICT, Management Approaches, and Accounting Practices in Green Business and sustainability is theme for CBAM 2012. The concept of the “green business” is still evolving, but is gaining traction around the world, as much as a process as an end state. Greening the business refers to “the process of reconfiguring businesses and infrastructure to deliver better returns on natural, human and economic capital investments, while at the same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions, extracting and using less natural resources, creating less waste and reducing social disparities.” Just as sustainable development policy makers have begun to focus on the role of innovation, market mechanisms, and social entrepreneurship in the achievement of environmental and other objectives, the ICT sector and ICT policy makers have begun to recognise the opportunities emerging from the critical role ICTs can play as a key enabling technology supporting green growth and the development of the green economy. Moreover, as corporations begin to adopt Green Business Strategy, the traditional marketing approach will cease to work effectively because being Green is not only a business issue. Apart from the concern of consumers, there are other stakeholders who can turn this opportunity into a threat unless they are handled with great care. Thus, new management approaches and accounting practices which address different aspects of Green Business must be adopted in order to maximize the effect and minimize its risk effectively.
ICTs, Management Approach and Accounting Practices can support the development of the green economy in three principal ways:
• By using ICT to facilitate the development of the green economy through improvements in the efficiency of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services throughout the economy and society; by reducing demand for energy and materials through the whole or partial substitution of virtual products and services for their physical equivalents (dematerialisation).
• By developing accounting and reporting systems to measure, monitor and control environmental and social impacts
• By increasing systemic effects that result in transformation of the behaviour, attitudes and values of individuals as citizens and consumers; economic and social structures; and governance processes.
Conference Program: TBA


Venue: Hall Room, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Islam Sultan Agung (UNISSULA)
Jln. Raya Kaligawe Km. 4 Semarang, Jawa Tengah

Accommodation: TBA
Call for Papers: Papers are invited from theoretical and empirical research on ICT-Business, Management and Accounting. Papers can be written in English or Indonesian. Submitted papers should not be submitted in anywhere else or being consideration to any publications. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the Scientific Committee.

Relevant topics on ICT-Business
• E-Business, E-Commerce, E-Enterprise
• Virtual Product and Services
• Social Virtual Networking
• Management of Information
• E-Supply Chain Management
Relevant topics on Management Field
• Marketing and Consumer Behavior
• Human Resource and Organizational Behavior
• Financial and Capital Market
• Production and Operation Management
• Strategic and Innovation Management
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Green Management Practices
Relevant topics on Accounting Field
• Management Accounting
• Taxation
• Auditing
• Public Sector Accounting
• Financial and Capital Market Accounting
• Accounting Information System
• Environmental Accounting
• Syari’ah Accounting


REGISTRATION FEES

Regular
Presenter (1st author) Rp 350.000
Presenter (1st author and 2nd author in the same paper) Rp 500.000
Non presenter (1 person) Rp 150.000
Non presenters ( 2 persons within an institution) Rp 250.000

Early bird (before 10 November 2012), Discount 20%

The registration fee for the conference includes a copy of Conference Proceedings on USB Stick, coffee breaks, lunch, welcome reception, conference dinner, and City Tour Program. Full payment by authors is to be made before 20 November 2012 in order to ensure that the paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings. All papers must have a registration attached. Registration cancellation can be made until 30 November 2012 with a 5% penalty. After the 30 November 2012, refund will not be possible.


Important Dates:
Full Paper: 15 October 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 31 October 2012
Registration: 20 November 2012
The Conference: 6 – 7 December 2012

Papers Submission:
Papers are required to be original works, formatted according to CABM guidelines, up to 15 pages in length (A4 format, two-column format), and submitted via online submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbam2012. If you face any difficulties using the online submission system, you may please send your paper to our email address: cbam.unissula@gmail.com or cbam@unissula.ac.id. CABM paper template can be provided upon request by email. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers from the Programme Committee. Accepted presented papers will be published in proceedings of this conference (ISBN, indexed by Portal Garuda and Google Scholar). At least one author from each accepted paper is to pay the full registration fee, attend the conference and present their paper.

Journal Special Issues
Authors of selected papers accepted and presented at the conference will be invited to submit their work with extended results in the specials issues of the following journals.

EKOBIS (http://journal.unissula.ac.id/ekobis)
JRBI (http://journal.unissula.ac.id/jrbi)
JAI (http://journal.unissula.ac.id/JAI)

Contact Us:
Email: cbam.unissula@gmail.com;cbam@unissula.ac.id
Skype: cbam2012.unissula@ac.id