Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 24, 2013

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting

The Surprise Gift
How IABS’s First International Meeting Came to Be

This “paper” recalls the events that shaped the first international conference of the International Association for Business and Society. A number of surprises and fortunate circumstances determined the actual nature of our 1992 meeting in Leuven, Belgium. This description provides a brief overview of that conference’s planning and execution.