Opportunities and Challenges for International Entrepreneurial Firms in a Time of Economic Turbulence
Hosted by: The University of Southern Denmark, Odense
The 2011 McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference will take place on September 16-18, 2011 at The University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
The conference is designed to bring together state-of-the art research from the fields of small business/entrepreneurship and international business. The goal is to analyze patterns and forces which in the future will influence international entrepreneurship. The 2011 MIE conference will have special focus on the opportunities and challenges that international entrepreneurs have been faced with as a consequence of the economic turbulence.
Following the tradition established by the previous conferences from 1998, the 2011 conference will bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars, insightful practitioners and policymakers to examine such issues and the driving forces of international entrepreneurship (IE). The 2011 conference will follow the traditional organization in two parts:
a) Research-Intensive Workshop: An intensive, two-day Research Workshop which focuses on the examination and development of the concepts, frameworks, theories and methodologies used to understand the strategic behavior of internationalizing entrepreneurial firms and the new changes and challenges facing them. This will present a unique opportunity for participants to discuss such issues with a view to developing new research initiatives with the potential for advancing the field of International Entrepreneurship.
b) Business/Professional Workshop: This will consist of an open session for interaction with and discussion of the key ideas and insights with members of the business and policy communities. This part of the conference will be organized jointly with the International Danish Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA), which has long experience in bringing practitioners and academics together.
Competitive Paper Tracks:
In addition to the focused theme of the conference, empirical and theoretical research papers on any of the following topics and related areas are welcomed:
• Theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of IE.
•Cross-national comparisons of international entrepreneurial firms.
• Characteristics and challenges of IE firms.
• Ethnic entrepreneurship and family owned IE firms.
• Gender issues in IE.
• E-business strategies in IE firms.
• Entrepreneurship and regional economic development.
• Global growth strategies in IE firms.
• Other topics of relevance to the conference theme.
Submission Information:
May 15, 2011: Submission deadline for extended abstracts (no more than 2000 words) or full papers.
June 15, 2011:Email notification of feedback or acceptance.
August 15, 2011: Online submission deadline for final papers.
Please note that all papers must be written according to the Journal of International Entrepreneurship guidelines and must be submitted electronically as a Word attachment to: 2011mie.conference [at] sam.sdu.dk.
We are currently addining information pertaining to this edition of the conference series. In the meantime, for further information please click on the following item to download the 2011 Conference Flyer: 2011 MIE Conference Flyer