GABC



Global Advances in Business Communications (GABC) Journal and Tricontinental Conference

The Tricontinental Conference on Global Advances in Business Communications (GABC) is an annual conference jointly sponsored by Eastern Michigan University, the Technological University of Malaysia and the University of Antwerp. The conference rotates annually among the three partners. In June 2009, we launched our inaugural conference at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Nearly 100 scholars from 16 countries attended. To read more about this first GABC conference, please click here.

The GABC Conference brings together academics and practitioners to consider ongoing scholarly activities and business practices which shape and are shaped by the changing nature and level of global business communications. The GABC Conference is intentionally interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars researching on five separate fields joined together through global business communication:


		International and cross-cultural business communication and negotiations

		Global aspects of integrated marketing communications (IMC)

		Communication aspects of international law and global business ethics

		Languages and business communication

		E-Semantics
		[cross-cultural, language-based international issues associated with search terms, string searches, web design, web site user friendliness and electronic advertising keywords]

All submissions to the GABC conference are blind reviewed.

The 2010 GABC Conference this year in Antwerp will be a collaboratively-run conference of the GABC and the Association for Business Communication European Convention. The University of Antwerp will host the GABC Conference and join Lessius University which will host the ABC European Convention. While the two conventions will run separate tracks, the two groups will be open to attendees of both groups and share a common registration and conference site. To register for the joint GABC-ABC Europe Convention, please click here.

In Spring 2011 the Technological University of Malaysia will host the GABC Conference in Johor and in Summer 2012 the GABC Conference will return to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti.

The GABC Journal, though independent from the conference, covers the same five tracks and is a joint publication of the three GABC partners. For more information or to submit articles for review to the GABC Journal, please click here.

Global Advances in Business Communications (GABC) Journal and Tricontinental Conference