This organization is in its thirty-third year of
existence. It formerly was known as
APUBEF (The Association of Pennsylvania University Business and Economics
Faculty). It was founded by a small
group of Economics professors of the fourteen state universities comprising the
Pennsylvania System of Higher Education.
Their goal was to provide a platform for sharing and exploring scholarly
work among the business faculty of the fourteen state universities. As a result of their efforts, the
organization has sponsored an academic conference each year for the past 32
years.
Over this period the fundamental goal of NABET/APUBEF has
been to target the business faculty of the small colleges and universities in
Pennsylvania. The organization has been
successful in achieving this goal for several years. In 2006 the Executive Board determined that
the APUBEF organization should be renamed as NABET and become regional in
scope. As a result, beginning with the
October 2007 annual meeting, the organization and the annual conference
extended its reach to the northeastern region (8 states) rather than primarily
on Pennsylvania.
The original founders also established a referred journal,
the Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Economics, now renamed as the Journal
of the Northeastern Association of Business, Economics and Technology
(JNABET). The journal is listed in
Cabell’s Directory and notated as a commendable
journal. It applies a double blind
review process, and it is published at least once each year. The journal has a devoted editorial staff
supported by an excellent corps of reviewers.
