Tracks and Chairs

Abstracts are invited for referred papers, case studies and workshops that deal directly or indirectly with issues significant to small business and entrepreneurship.

Tracks: (please click on the track to read the descirption)

Advancing Entrepreneurship, including Education

Track Co-Chairs: Fred Crane and Maynard Bledsoe

The Policy and Regulatory Environment, and the Impact of SME/entrepreneurship Policies and Programs

Track Co-Chairs: David J. Smallbone and Professor Tom Bryant

Types of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs (e.g., Women, Minorities and Community and Social Entrepreneurship)

Track Co-Chairs: Leo Dana, Yves Robichaud, Gordon Shockley, and Laura Small

Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship and SME Development

Track Co-Chairs: Aldene Meis Mason and Tomola Obamuyi

Regional and Rural Entrepreneurship

Track Co-Chairs: Brian Gibson, Glenn Chappell and David Byrne

Entrepreneurship and SME Development in Transition and Developing Economies

Track Co-Chairs: José Ernesto Amorós, Joan Lluis Capelleras and Friederike Welter

Small Business Support Services

Track Co-Chairs: Ellen Farrell and Maria Meyers

Training and Development of Entrepreneurs

Track Co-Chairs: Tadeo Satta

Social, Environmental, and Ethical Responsibility and Sustainable Development of SMEs

Track Co-Chairs: Ronald Camp II and Dennis Foley

Micro-finance, Development Banking, Innovative SME Financing

Track Co-Chairs: Colin Mason, Marsha Bailey and Stuart Locke

Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of R&D

Track Co-Chairs: Mark Weaver, George Vozikis, Peter W. Moroz, and David McNamara

SME Management and Growth

Track Co-Chairs: Philip Siegel, Ezendu Ariwa, Terence Zinger and Thomas Henschel

Research methodology and theory development in the field

Track Co-Chairs: Colin Jones

Corporate Entrepreneurship

Track Co-Chairs: Rik Berry and Craig E. Watters

Governance and ownership of small firms, including family firms and entrepreneurial firms

Track Co-Chairs: Morten Huse and Donata Mussolino

Advances in Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research,
Education and Practice

Track Co-Chairs: William Schulte and Bob D'Intino

Areas of interest:

  • Government policy for entrepreneurship and SME development
  • Entrepreneurship and SME development in transition and developing economies
  • Regional differences in entrepreneurial and SME activity
  • Regulatory environment and business entry
  • Entrepreneurship and economic growth
  • Measurement of SME/entrepreneurship policy outcomes
  • Role of SMEs in private sector development
  • Advancing entrepreneurship education
  • Role of universities and colleges in fostering entrepreneurship
  • Enterprise and innovation centres: their role and impact
  • Women's entrepreneurship
  • Youth entrepreneurship
  • Older worker entrepreneurship
  • Visible minority and ethnic entrepreneurship
  • Aboriginal entrepreneurship
  • High-growth entrepreneurship
  • Nascent entrepreneurship
  • Regional and rural entrepreneurship
  • Community and social entrepreneurship
  • International entrepreneurship
  • Business start-up and incubation
  • Factors affecting success and failure of SMEs
  • Small business support services - approaches, innovations, impacts
  • Training and development of small business owners and entrepreneurs: lessons learned
  • Tools and techniques for assisting SMEs
  • Developments in SME management and marketing
  • SME productivity and competitiveness
  • SME clusters and supply chain linkages
  • Sustainable development and SMEs
  • Social, environmental, and ethical responsibility
  • Innovations in small business financing for start-up and growth
  • Development financing: micro-finance, development banking
  • Entrepreneurial/SME networks
  • Financial and non-financial SME programs and services: impacts and results
  • SMEs, export development and internationalization
  • Linking entrepreneurship and the commercialization of R&D
  • Entrepreneurship research: from theory to practice
  • Turning research into useful tools to help SMEs

 

Abstract Submission Deadline: February 18, 2008