Call for Papers

Call for papers

Extended Deadline for Submission of Proposals and Abstracts: May 31, 2009

Deadline for Submission of Completed Papers: August 17, 2009

International entrepreneurs and entrepreneurially-oriented smaller firms have been fueling the growth of the global economy. They are launching innovative firms that become International New Ventures, Born Globals and Rapidly Internationalizing Enterprises, which compete nationally and internationally. This generation of new enterprises is introducing new competitive strategies and thereby forcing the older firms and industries to re-examine their past strategies. In the emerging dynamic market place, the large, mature and established companies further leverage their older relations and their proven capabilities to embrace the challenges of the new frontiers, while the young internationally-oriented smaller companies create, or re-engineer, respective value nets and consolidate their relations with the networks of other enterprises. As a result, both types of companies are re-creating themselves and are competing side-by-side. These challenges call for a re-assessment of the prevailing strategies and business models of all firms. This research-intensive conference focuses on the smaller of those firms.

Following the tradition established by the previous conferences, starting in 1998, this conference is designed to bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars and insightful practitioners from the fields of international business and small business / entrepreneurship, among others, in order to examine the influential force(s), consequent changes and the dominant pattern(s) of emerging developments in international entrepreneurship. In previous plenary sessions, the contributions of prominent scholars such as Zoltan Acs, Howard Aldrich, Paul Beamish, Jerome Katz, Benjamin Oviatt and Patricia McDougall, played a catalytic role in moving research frontiers forward. The 2009 conference holds a similar promise and will follow that tradition in two parts:

a) Research-Intensive Workshop: An intensive, two day Research Workshop focuses on the development of potent concepts, frameworks and theories for understanding what explains internationalizing firms and the new changes and challenges facing them that pose research questions for scholars and practitioners. Following the past conferences, the objectives of the conference are:

i) to provide a unique opportunity for scholars to discuss path-breaking concepts, ideas, frameworks and theoretical essentials in plenary and competitive paper sessions, in order to facilitate the development of new research initiatives with a potential for contributing to the advancement of the field of International Entrepreneurship, and

ii) to prepare the collective work of the workshop for cohesive and integrated collections for potential publication. Therefore, only unpublished papers are invited for presentation and feedback from other scholars and invited practitioners.

Contributions to the workshop can either be competitive papers or work-in-progress papers.

Competitive papers: 20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes comments, no commentators appointed beforehand.

Work-in-progress: 10 minutes presentation, 20 minutes comments and pre-appointed commentators. Please notice that by submitting a work-in-progress you wil be requested to comment on 1-2 papers.

b) Business Conference: This will consist of an open session for discussion of the key ideas and insights with members of the business community. The focus will be on a better understanding of actual issues facing entrepreneurial firms in their quest for growth and internationalization. Executives from internationalizing firms will be invited to share their insights on related themes and interact with scholars.

PUBLICATIONS:

Researchers will have the opportunity to submit their articles to special editions of i.e. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV).
For a selected list of publications of past conference papers see www.mcgill.ca/mie.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

May 31, 2009: Deadline for Submission of Proposals and Abstracts

Please send us completed papers, working papers, or a detailed three (3) page synopsis by e-mail as Word attachment to MIE2009@hanken.fi

Please include full contact information for main contact author(s), and indicate 1) to which topic your paper belongs and 2) whether your paper will be a competitive paper, or a work-in-progress paper.

June 8, 2009: Notification of acceptance communicated to main contact author

August 17, 2009: Deadline for Submission of Completed Papers

Please follow the writing guidelines for the Journal of International Entrepreneurship

In case of difficulty with electronic transmissions, hard copies may be mailed to:

Professor Soren Kock, Conference Chairman
Hanken School of Economics
P.O.Box 287
FI-65101 Vaasa, Finland

or faxed to : +358 6 3533703

For further information, feel free to contact Professor Soren Kock at soren.kock@hanken.fi, or Professor Hamid Etemad at hamid.etemad@mcgill.ca