Please submit a proposal or paper related to business communication topics for presentation at the 2021 ABC-SWUS Virtual Conference, held in collaboration with the Association for Business Information Systems (ABIS). Research papers or position papers related to business communication topics in the following areas are encouraged:

Communication Technology

Technology and Education

Innovative Instructional Methods

Business Education Issues

International Business Communication

Paradigm Shifts in Communication

Training and Development/Consulting

Interpersonal Communication

Nonverbal Communication

Executive/Managerial Communication

Legal and Ethical Communication Issues

Organizational Communication

• Papers or proposals should include a statement of the problem or purpose, methodology section (if applicable), findings (as available), a summary, implications for education and/or business, and a bibliography.

• If you are submitting a proposal only, it should contain 750 to 1,500 words and must be submitted on the ABC website:  https://www.businesscommunication.org/page/2021-abc-southwestern-us/fbd-conference.  Click on the link for the 2021 ABC-SWUS Virtual Conference.

• If you are submitting a completed paper, please submit your paper online at the link above.  Submit the completed paper as a Microsoft Word document to the ABC-SWUS website by October 1, 2020.

• Personal and institutional identification should be removed from the body of the paper.  Submissions will be anonymously reviewed.
• A cover page is required with the title of the paper and identifying information for each author: name, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail address. For your research to be considered for the Richard D. Irwin Distinguished Paper Award, you must submit a completed paper rather than a proposal by the submission deadline, October 1, 2020.
• Submitted papers should not have been previously presented or published, nor should they be under consideration or accepted for presentation elsewhere.

• Upon receiving notice of acceptance, all authors and co-authors are expected to pre-register for ABC-SWUS at http://www.fbdonline.org. Your ABC-SWUS registration fee will allow you hear all ABC and ABIS presenters; if you present at the ABIS conference, you are responsible for their organizational registration fee.

Submission Deadline:  Papers and proposals must be received by October 1, 2020.

Proceedings Deadline: Accepted papers must be received by January 15, 2021.

     For information, contact Leslie Ramos Salazar, Program Chair, via e-mail at lsalazar@wtamu.edu