Why Join IABS?

Joining IABS means becoming part of a long-standing scholarly community with a clear purpose: to advance research and teaching on the relationship between business and society. Your membership helps sustain this community and allows IABS to continue offering spaces where ideas can grow, scholars can connect, and important conversations about business and society can move forward.

IABS membership gives you access to a range of academic and community benefits, including:

  • Eligibility to participate in IABS activities, initiatives, and calls for proposals 

  • Opportunities to present and develop work in a supportive academic environment 

  • Connection to an international network of scholars, doctoral students, and practitioners 

  • Access to Business & Society, one of the leading journals in the field

  • Access to IABS Conference Proceedings 

  • A community that values constructive feedback, intellectual generosity, and developmental scholarship 

Being an international association means having members from all over the world. This opens up possibilities for collaborations and exchange with researchers from different contexts, views and understanding of our field. For doctoral students and early-career scholars, IABS offers a particularly valuable space to receive feedback, meet senior colleagues, and become part of a field-wide conversation. For more established scholars, IABS provides a community where one can mentor others and continue developing meaningful research and teaching agendas.

Why pay for membership?

Membership fees are not only a payment for individual benefits. They are also a contribution to sustaining the association and the community behind it.

Your membership helps IABS support conferences, doctoral activities, developmental spaces for scholars, publications, strategic initiatives, and the infrastructure needed to keep the association active and accessible. In this sense, paying for membership is a way of investing in the future of the business and society field.

IABS remains a relatively small and personal association. This is one of its strengths. The membership fee helps preserve our identity: a community where people know each other, where new members are welcomed, and where scholarly exchange is serious, constructive, and collegial.