APBERS Japan 2024 Winter Conference held in Beppu
The Asia Pacific Business and Economics Research Society (APBERS) held its conference at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita, on February 6 and 7, 2024.
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Important Dates
- Venue ocular inspection (May 30 to June 3, 2024)
- Call for Papers (June 10 – September 14, 2024)
- Notification of Acceptance (September 15, 2024)
- Registration (September 19 to October 19, 2024)
- Issuance of Invitation Letters (October 19, 2024)
- Conference Days (November 19 to 21, 2024)
- Study Tour (November 22, 2024)
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Board
Michael Angelo A. Cortez, DBA, Editor-in-chief, is an Full Professor of Finance and Accounting at the Graduate School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. A certified public accountant by profession, he earned his Doctor of Business Administration degree from De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. His research interests include sustainable manufacturing, sustainable fashion, innovation, valuation, and financial performance. He works on cross country comparative studies. He was the Deputy Director of the Ritsumeikan Center for Asia Pacific Studies (RCAPS) and managing editor of the RCAPS Journal.
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John Paolo R. Rivera is an economist with an extensive research portfolio in the areas of development economics, management and entrepreneurship, and tourism planning and development. This includes his attendance in a succession of both international and local academic conferences, and authorship of numerous scientific and technical publications. He is also an educator who handles courses on basic, intermediate, and advanced economics at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. He is also a subject matter expert engaged in various research and management consultancy services with the private and public sector. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, from De La Salle University School of Economics. He is the president and chief economist of Oikonomia Advisory & Research, Inc. He is currently the OIC executive director of the Asian Institute of Management – Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism.
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Events
Advanced Quantitative Research Workshop
Seminar Workshop on ESG and Corporate Performance
The Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society hosted an advanced quantitative research workshop on February 7, 2024 at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Oita, Japan, featuring Dr. John Paolo R. Rivera of the Asian Institute of Management and Oikonomiya Advisory and Research.
The pre-workshop included Bloomberg and other financial databases, panel data gathering and analysis. The participants used Environment, Social and Governance as independent variables and corporate financial performance as dependent variables. Alternatively, capital structures and its determinants were also discussed.
An advanced statistics lecture was also delivered. Using STATA software, Dr. Rivera speaker demonstrated basic to advanced statistics on linear modelling that include descriptive statistics, basic graphing, and all the way to advanced statistical techniques and quality control checks.
At the end of the session, Dr. Rivera presented analysis and interpretation of results. He focused on research anomalies and how research addresses gaps in literature.
John Paolo R. Rivera is an economist with an extensive research portfolio in the areas of development economics, management and entrepreneurship, and tourism planning and development. This includes his attendance in a succession of both international and local academic conferences, and authorship of numerous scientific and technical publications. He is also an educator who handles courses on basic, intermediate, and advanced economics at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. He is also a subject matter expert engaged in various research and management consultancy services with the private and public sector. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Master of Science in Economics, and Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics (magna cum laude) from De La Salle University School of Economics. He is the president and chief economist of Oikonomia Advisory & Research, Inc. He is currently the OIC executive director of the Asian Institute of Management – Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism.
APBERS president Dr. Michael Angelo A. Cortez and Ms. Aileen Clemente, president of Rajah Travel Corporation and Tourism Knowledge Center (TKC) recently forged a memorandum of agreement in partnership for the Winter Conference 2024.
Rajah Travel Corporation will be the official travel and visa processing agency of the conference participants and fellows of TKC. This is the revival of the Japan conferences hosted by APBERS since the pandemic and both organizations are excited for this partnership agreement.
September 25, 2014 – Philosophy of Research. Michael Angelo A. Cortez, De La Salle Araneta University, Philippines.
November 19, 2014 – Basic and Advanced Statistics Using STATA. John Paolo R. Rivera. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
February 8 to 10, 2015 – APUGSM Boracay Conference 2015, Boracay Regency Resort & Spa, Boracay Island, Philippines.
April 3, 2015 – Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society Annual Spring meeting and research in progress conference, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Oita, Japan.
July 1 and 4, 2015 – Capacity Enhancement Seminar – Advanced Econometrics. John Paolo R. Rivera. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
October 24-25, 2015. Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society Cebu Conference 2015, Marriott Hotel, Cebu, Philippines.
December 2, 2015 – Lecture and Symposium on Research. Michael Angelo A. Cortez and John Paolo R. Rivera. De La Salle Araneta University, Philippines
February 22, 2016 – 1stPSTD Research Event for L&D Practitioners – Advancing Culture of Research in the Industry. Michael Angelo A. Cortez and John Paolo R. Rivera. Asian Institute of Management Conference Center Manila, Philippines
March 11, 2016 – Disambiguating the Dissertation Writing Process. Michael Angelo A. Cortez and John Paolo R. Rivera. De La Salle University, Philippines
January 19 to 20, 2017. Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society Japan Winter Conference 2015, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
March 9 to 10, 2017, International Conference on Business, Economics and Information Technology. Co-organized with University of Guam and Nagoya University.
January 19 & 20, 2018, Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society Japan Winter Conference Okinawa 2018, Hyatt Regency Naha, Naha, Okinawa, Japan.
April 4 & 5, 2019, Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society Spring Conference Beppu 2019, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
Guidelines
Publication Guidelines
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EDITORIAL OBJECTIVES
The objective of the Asia Pacific Business and Economics Perspective (Perspectives) is to publish high-quality theoretical, empirical, business case studies, policy research and methodological research in the fields of business and economics.
EDITORIAL POLICIES
In line with the objective of Perspectives, priority shall be given to the following submissions:
Theoretical research: Studies that explore or test theoretical issues and provide additional insights on the issues.
Empirical research: Studies that re-examine important empirical work using alternative theoretical or empirical frameworks, or a different data set. These studies often involve experimental designs and multivariate techniques that examine relationships among variables.
Business case studies: Studies that illustrate best practices of companies or industries on emerging business concepts.
Policy research: Studies that use business field research to enact policies on an economy, country, or community.
Methodological research: Studies that present new approaches in analyzing data or addressing research problems.
Review articles: Surveys that review and critically evaluate the literature. A review article must go beyond summarizing previous research. It must provide a critical and integrative evaluation of prior research, develop a conceptual framework to explain contradictory findings and suggest directions for further research.
Perspectivesalso encourages and welcomes manuscripts that use an interdisciplinary approach (i.e. law and economics) in analyzing issues as well as those that use multiple research methods to support hypotheses.
In addition to the above types of articles, Perspectivesalso welcomes critiques, short notes, or comments on previously published articles and consequently, rejoinders from the authors of these articles. Short articles which are not full-length research papers, but the content of which adds new insights into or knowledge to their respective fields will be considered. These short articles and comments shall be included under a separate section called – Research Notes.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
Perspectivesis a bi-annual peer reviewed journal of APUGSM Conferences and the Asia Pacific Business and Economics Research Society. The two issues are released every summer and winter in Japan, which coincides with, but not limited to, the APUGSM Conferences.
Our double blind peer-review process is composed of faculty from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan, keynote speakers from the APBERS Conferences, and academic networks of the editors from scholarly journals. The peer review process is determined based on the matching of the topic and the expertise of the reviewer.
The journal comes with the one time annual membership of presenting authors in the APUGSM Conferences. Annual membership to the Asia Pacific Business & Economics Research Society is USD70.
REVIEW PROCESS
Papers may be published two ways: (1) presentation at APBERS Conferences; (2) and via direct submission to APBERS.
Presented papers at the APBERS Conferences are evaluated by the review panel composed of the conference chairs, keynote speakers, and APBERS board members. Outstanding papers are invited for submission to the peer review process.
Papers are then reviewed by an Advisory Editorial Board and invited experts in the fields of business and economics. A ten-point grading scale is used. Papers with more than 90 percent score are considering a clean acceptance and the authors may or may not considering the comments of the reviewers. Papers with 80 to 89 percent are considered minor acceptance with required revisions from the reviewers. Papers with 70 to 79 percent score are considered accepted with required major revisions. Papers scoring below 70 are returned to the authors with constructive comments. Each author of a paper not accepted is given a written notice of the action taken on his/her paper.
From the pool of articles reviewed, six or more papers are reviewed again by the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor. If more revisions are required, the papers are sent back to the authors for revision and re-submission. The Editorial Board of the APBEP reserves the right to keep copies of all papers submitted.
Direct submissions to APBERS are also welcome provided that the papers qualify for the thematic issues. Authors of direct submission must then be a member of APBERS to commence the peer review process and eventually publish.
SUBMISSION OF INITIAL MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts submitted must not have been published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors may e-mail their submissions to the Editor at cortezm@apu.ac.jp
Journals
Vol. 3 No. 1 – Summer 2015
Vol. 3 No. 2 – Winter 2015
Vol. 2 No. 1 – Summer 2014
Vol. 2 No. 2 – Winter 2014
Vol. 1 No. 1 – Summer 2013
