Paper Submission

To submit your final 100-word summary and/or final paper, please click here: https://www.softconf.com/starts/icsb08/final.html

Final Submission Requirements and Processes

Paper and Workshop Submissions

2008 International Council for Small Business World Conference

Submission Due Date: May 15th, 2008

All abstracts are to be submitted electronically on the 2008 ICSB website at https://www.softconf.com/starts/icsb08/final.html. The online submission site will close on May 16th, 2008.

Full paper submission guidelines will follow the same structure as the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship publication. For these guidelines, please see the following website: http://www.jsbe.com/about-jsbe/guidelines-for-authors.html

Tracks:

1. Advancing Entrepreneurship, including Education
2. The Policy and Regulatory Environment, and the Impact of SME/entrepreneurship Policies and Programs
3. Types of Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs (e.g., Women, Minorities and Community and Social Entrepreneurship)
4. Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship and SME Development
5. Regional and Rural Entrepreneurship
6. Entrepreneurship and SME Development in Transition and Developing Economies
7. Small Business Support Services
8. Training and Development of Entrepreneurs
9. Social, Environmental, and Ethical Responsibility and Sustainable Development of SMEs
10. Micro-finance, Development Banking, Innovative SME Financing
11. Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of R&D
12. SME Management and Growth
13. Research methodology and theory development in the field
14. Corporate Entrepreneurship
15. Governance and ownership of small firms, including family firms and entrepreneurial firms
16. Advances in Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research, Education and Practice

• All submissions will be acknowledged by email. 

• The official languages of the conference are English and French. Papers may be submitted in either of these two languages. 

Contact Information

• For further information regarding the paper tracks, please contact:

                      Dr. Robert Anderson, Paper Chair

                      University of Regina

                      Phone: +01 (306) 585-4728

                      Email: Robert.Anderson@uregina.ca

• For further information regarding the workshop tracks, please contact:

                      Mr. Chris Pelham, Workshop Chair

                      Acadia Centre for Social and

                      Business Entrepreneurship

                      Phone: +01 (902) 585-1181

                      Email: Chris.pelham@acadiau.ca

• For further information on the 2008 ICSB World Conference, please contact:

                      Maureen Joudrey, Conference Manager

                      Saint Mary’s University Business

                      Development Centre

                      Phone: +01 (902) 429-4535

                      Email: icsb2008@smu.ca