Call for Submissions 2007 ABO Research Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania October 19 – 20, 2007

The 2007 ABO conference will be held October 19-20, 2007 in Philadelphia, PA at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue. Consistent with last year's conference there will be a PhD Consortium, Emerging Scholar Sessions, and two papers per session.

PhD Consortium: Friday morning will feature a Consortium for PhD students interested in doing behavioral work. Steve Kaplan will lead the session, which will include presentations and discussions with leading behavioral researchers on topics such as managing an academic career and generating and publishing good behavioral research. PhD students will pay no registration fee for the PhD Consortium or the Research Conference. Details will be sent to program directors.

Emerging scholars submission: Consistent with last year we are pleased to include an Emerging Scholars session at the conference. This session will showcase the work of new scholars while providing them with detailed constructive feedback on their papers through the assignment of more senior discussants. Faculty who have graduated within the past three years and doctoral students are encouraged to submit their work to this session. Please include a note with your submission to indicate "emerging scholars" submission. Submissions to the Emerging Scholars session will also be considered for inclusion in regular conference research sessions.

Format: To encourage high quality discussion and interaction during sessions, two papers will be presented in each concurrent session with a discussant for each. Papers will be available online prior to the conference as well. We hope participants and presenters will enjoy the more in-depth discussions that are made possible by a more informed audience.

Submission procedures: All submissions should be made electronically. Email submissions to James Bierstaker (james.bierstaker@villanova.edu). The manuscript should be submitted in Word format with all author identification removed from the document; for field surveys or experiments, please submit an instrument. Please include author(s) and institution affiliation(s) in the email.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2007. Submitted papers should not have been accepted for publication at the time of the submission. Papers should follow the style guidelines for American Accounting Association publications. The submission fee is $25.00 and should be made out to the American Accounting Association (no fee for doctoral students). Please submit your fee to James Bierstaker, Department of Accountancy, Villanova School of Business, Villanova, PA 19085. Selection of conference papers will be announced by August 20, 2007 and papers will be available on the ABO website by September 1.

Watch the AAA website for further details on the conference, including registration information.

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