1. What is included in the AIB Registration Fee?

The registration fee includes access to all conference sessions and exhibits. When you check-in at the registration desk, you will receive a delegate bag, which includes copies of the conference program, the conference proceedings, your name tag, and other relevant information. The registration fee also covers access to a morning coffee break, poster sessions with light lunch, and an afternoon coffee break on all three days of the conference. If you are attending a pre-conference workshop, food for a fourth day will also be included in your fees. The registration also includes access to the Presidential Reception on June 27, the Gala Event on June 29, and the Farewell Reception on June 30.

These benefits are the same for all three registration classes: regular, student, and low income.


2. Do I have to be an AIB member to register for the AIB 2009 Conference?

All participants in the AIB conference have to be members of the Academy of International Business. Therefore, if you are not currently an AIB member, you will have to become an AIB member while registering for the conference. If your are currently an AIB member, but your membership expires before June 30, 2009, then you will have to renew your membership while you register for the conference. Both our online system and our PDF form allows you to pay your membership fees along with your conference registration fees.


3. What is AJBS? Do I have to register for AJBS to attend the AIB Meeting?

The Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) is an international association of professionals actively pursuing the exchange of information and ideas concerning Japanese business and its economic, social and cultural environment. AJBS is an organization independent from the AIB but chooses to travel with AIB, and holds its two-day conference just before the AIB conference. As a service to AJBS, AIB manages the registration for the AJBS conference as well. Therefore, if you are interested in Japanese business studies, you can register for both conferences. However, you can choose to attend only the AIB conference.

Please note that AJBS has a similar membership requirement to AIB. That is, if you wish to register for the AJBS conference, you will have to become a member of AJBS as well. The memberships of the two organizations are separate.


4. What is your registration policy for authors/presenters that have a paper or panel accepted for the conference?

AIB's no-show policy requires that at least one co-author for each accepted manuscript must be registered by May 1. Otherwise, the manuscript will be removed from the program. If multiple co-authors are planning to attend the conference, each co-author has to register individually. For panels, the requirement is that at least half of the panelists must be registered by May 1.


5. I am attending the Doctoral Consortium/Junior Faculty Consortium/JIBS Workshop. Do I have to register for the AIB Conference?

Yes. All participants attending any pre-conference event are REQUIRED to register for the main conference as well. The AIB Board sees the conference as an integral part of the educational experience these individuals will get from the pre-conference activities, therefore no exceptions will be made.


6. What is the Early Registration Discount?

To have a better idea of how many participants will attend and to promote timely registration for the conference, AIB may offer an early registration discount. This discount applies ONLY to regular (full rate) registrations, received before the early registration deadline, as specified on the registration page. Student registrations and low-Income registrations are already heavily subsidized, and therefore are not eligible for the Early Registration Discount.


7. What is the Late Registration Fee?

For a conference of AIB's size, many arrangements have to be made well in advance to ensure that there is enough space, food, programs, and other consumables available. We typically have to report to all venues estimated number of participants 4-6 weeks in advance of the event. Therefore, late registrations usually put us at a difficult situation of having to make last minute changes to our orders, usually at a penalty. Therefore, AIB uses a Late Registration Fee to dissuade participants from leaving their registrations to the last minute and to make up for any penalties we may pay to our vendors for the last minute changes. The Late Registration Fee applies to all classes of registrations (regular, student, and low-income).


8. How do I confirm that I'm successfully registered?

Once your registration is finalized, you will receive a confirmation email indicating that you are officially registered and shows what your name tag information will look like. You will receive an Official Receipt, via email again, as proof of payment. In addition, your name will appear in the list of registered participants.


9. What is your cancellation policy?

We understand that members who have registered for the conference may have to cancel their registrations due to unforeseen circumstances. While we try to accommodate cancellations to the best of our ability, any cancellation, especially late ones, put AIB at a difficult situation. Due to the size of our conference, we make many of our arrangements well in advance and therefore cancellations come with a cost to AIB. Therefore, the AIB Board has developed a cancellation policy to balance the needs of our members with the costs of cancellation to AIB. As such, please note that cancellation requests for an already confirmed registration will be processed according to the following schedule:

      Before May 15: %100 refund (less $20 cancellation fee)
  May 15 - June 15: %50 refund
       After June 15: No refunds available