KIMEP

 Bang College of Business

 

Conference Theme: “Changing Society Through Research and Practice”

I am pleased to submit the Conference Final Report on the Fifth Annual KIMEP International Research Conference.

The Conference theme was "Changing Society Through Research and Practice" and it was held on October 6-8, 2005. This multi-disciplinary conference was dedicated to promote research through exchange of knowledge and ideas within the fields of Business, Management, Economics, Public Administration, Political Science and Journalism. There were sixteen (16) sessions as follows:

Plenary sessions: 3

Sessions: 12

Round table: 1

Total: 16

There were more than two hundred and eighty participants including students, and, a total of eighty (80) registered delegates from eleven countries.

Sixty-nine (69) papers were submitted as part of the Conference and many of these will go forward for publication in a special refereed journal of conference proceedings. These papers will highlight business throughout Central Asia.

In total sixty (60) presentations were made including presentations by key speakers, presentations in strategic urban management and numerous papers on business.

In addition, we were pleased to host participants from the following universities:

  1. Kazakh-Turkish University named after H.A. Yasawi, Turkestan, Kazakhstan
  2. Institute of Mathematics, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  3. Kazakh Economic University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  4. KIMEP, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  5. Tashkent Finance Institute, Uzbekistan
  6. Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
  7. University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan
  8. Tashkent Instituted of Irrigation and Melioration, Uzbekistan
  9. Osh State University, Kyrgyzstan
  10. Osh Technological University (OSH TU), Kyrgyzstan
  11. Tajik State National University
  12. Russian-Tajik Slavonic University
  13. Slavonic University Linguistics, Tajikistan
  14. Barnaul State Pedagogical University, Russia
  15. Singapore's Institution of Higher Learning
  16. Armenian- Russian Institute of Ecology, Economy and Law
  17. Mid Sweden University ITM
  18. Taiwan Institue for Political, Economic and Strategic Studies (TIPESS)
  19. Management Development Institute, India
  20. Colombia University, USA

The following countries were represented:

Armenia, Australia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan.

As Conference Chair, I would llike to to acknowledge and thank the entire organizing team and paarticipants for their efforts. In particular, my thanks to Dr. Patrick Low, Associate Dean of the Bang College of Business; Ms. Azhar Bergeneva, Depute Director Career Service; and Natalya Pya, senior Lecturer of BCB.

Also, I would like to thank our corporate sponsors Capital Partners; Taiwan Trade Center (Almaty); Karazhanbasmunai; Government of Canada.

Finally, my thanks to Dr. Rahman for his guidance and to you for your consistent support of research as an important element of the Bang College of Business and KIMEP.

Sincerely,

Dr. R. W. Robertson,

Dean, Bang College of Business

Conference Chair, KIRC 2005

October 13,2005

 
 

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