Description
Entrepreneurship Today is a conference for academics and practitioners to hear, learn and exchange ideas and perspectives on the latest trends and innovations from leaders in the field of entrepreneurship.
20-21 September Bergamo Italy
Second International Symposium Entrepreneurship Today 2010
www.unibg.it/elab2010
Organized by
Entrepreneurial Laboratory
University of Bergamo - Department of Business Administration
in partnership with ECSB
European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the annual global Elab conference in Bergamo.
Entrepreneurship Today is a conference for academics and practitioners to hear, learn and exchange
ideas and perspectives on the latest trends and innovations from leaders in the field of
entrepreneurship. The conference organizers have arranged a two-day conference packed with
activities for professional development and plenty of time for networking. We invite you to submit
a paper but you are also welcome to register as a participant. We are certain this year’s conference
will be an enriching experience for all of us offering many of opportunities. The conference
program is being finalized, we will have a Keynote Speech by Professor Shaker Zahra from the
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota). We have invited several experts that have
confirmed their presence over this two-day conference: Professor Morten Huse from- BI
Norwegian School of Management (Oslo, Norwey) & Tor Vergata, University (Roma, Italy),
Professor Alain Fayolle- from EM Lyon Business School and Professor Sabine Klein from WHU
Otto Beisheim School of Management.
The 2nd ELAB conference aims to discuss issues related to “Entrepreneurship Today”. What are
the origins of entrepreneurship? What stimulates entrepreneurial propensity? How do entrepreneurs
create, develop and transmit successfully their business models and their ideas? What does it mean
to be an entrepreneur today? Both theoretical and empirical research papers are welcome. We are
looking for studies that apply methodological rigor (both qualitative and quantitative), that use
international empirical evidence, provide concrete implications and are multidisciplinary.
Organized by: the Entrepreneurial Laboratory - University of Bergamo
Submissionsof any aspect of entrepreneurship and small business development are welcome,
but preferably concerning the following topics:
1. Entrepreneurship Governance and Growth
How do entrepreneurs face in this peculiar economic period issues such as the definition of their
business directions, of the business strategy, of their companies’ rules, of their companies
discipline? These are some of the aspects that could be developed. The theme of growth is also a
topic that could generate food for thought and good research proposals for the conference.
2. Entrepreneurship and Managerial issues (Organization, Finance, Marketing)
Papers that deal with entrepreneurship and its special links with issues such as organization, finance
and marketing are also welcome. Moreover proposals that consider entrepreneurship as a behaviour,
and papers that provide evidence of how all members of an organization could behave
entrepreneurially are welcome.
3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
We seek paper submissions that could advance research on the relationship between
entrepreneurship, innovation and technological change from a variety of perspectives, including
strategic, managerial, behavioural, and operational issues.
4. Entrepreneurship and Education
We invite you to submit your papers related to the bi-directional relationship between
entrepreneurship and education. Submission could consider: the study of the organization and
delivery of entrepreneurship education (academic) and entrepreneurship development (non/credit
instruction); the generation and dissemination of actionable knowledge about entrepreneurship and
learning; individual and organizational learning and development, pedagogical theory and practice
including curriculum design and innovation, learning practice, styles, and methods.
5. Entrepreneurship small businesses and family businesses
At the Symposium a particular attention will be given to the topic of small business and family
businesses. We specifically welcome interdisciplinary papers that develop topics such as: the
fostering of small businesses success and economic development, the management of the
succession issue, family business governance, issues and characteristics of owner-managers and of
multiple generation family businesses, the family business growth.
Publication Opportunities
The best papers will be selected and published in a special issue of the “International Journal
of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
*
(IJESB)”.
*
Special issue guest editors: Alain Fayolle (EM Lyon Business School), Giovanna Dossena (Bergamo
University), Kathleen Randerson (Université de Grenoble), Cristina Bettinelli (Bergamo University)
Organized by: the Entrepreneurial Laboratory - University of Bergamo
Authors should consider that only papers that have been presented during the Symposium will be
considered for the special issue. How to submit:
20 July, 2010 Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
16 August, 2010 Decision on Acceptance (peer blind reviewed)
20-21
st
September, 2010 Conference held
Full paper (first version) has to be sent before the conference by scholars that
are interested in participating into the selection for the IJESB special issue
25 September, 2010 Double blind review process starts
5
th
November, 2010 Reviews returned, notification to accepted authors for special issue
The extended abstract (in either a .pdf or Word file, maximum three pages, single spaced, 12 times
new roman, plus bibliography) should be sent to the following address: [email protected] .
It is important that the abstract does not contain the authors’ name, the paper will be identified by
the organizers with a code that will be communicated after the submission so that reviewers will not
identify authors. The extended abstract should include: title, topic and motivation, contribution to
the literature, methods, and main results.
Scientific Committee:
Alberto Bombassei - Brembo Group
Filippo Calarco - Professional Order of Notaries (Bergamo, Italy)
Giovanna Dossena - University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)
Morten Huse - BI Norwegian School of Management (Oslo, Norwey) & Tor Vergata University
(Roma, Italy)
Charlie Karlsson - Jönköping Business School (Jönköping, Sweden)
Maria Minniti - Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business (Dallas, Texas)
Mirano Sancin - Kilometro Rosso Science and Technology Park (Bergamo, Italy)
Carlo Vallini - Firenze University (Firenze, Italy)
Shaker Zahra - University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Vera Negri Zamagni - Bologna University (Bologna, Italy)
Conference Organizers:
Giovanna Dossena (Director Elab University of Bergamo)
Alessandro Danovi (Co-Director of OCRI Company Crisis und Turnaround Research Centre- Elab
University of Bergamo)
Barbara Del Bosco (senior research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Sara Bassani (research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Cristina Bettinelli (research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Kathleen Randerson (research associate Elab Université de Grenoble)
PAST EVENTS www.unibg.it/elab2009 Key note speakers at the past conference:
David B. Audretsch - Indiana University; Director of the research unit Entrepreneurship, Growth
and Public Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Germany)
Roberto Cafferata – Tor Vergata University, Roma; President, AIDEA (Italian Academy of
Business Administration and Management)
Morten Huse - Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo; Tor Vergata University, Roma;
President Elect, EURAM
Charlie Karlsson - Jönköping Business School (Sweden); Director of CISEG Center for
Innovation Systems, Entrepreneurship and Growth
Last conference publication opportunities
The papers presented at the past conference (Entrepreneurship Today 2009) received valuable
comments and feedbacks and were revised in order to be included in a book called
“Entrepreneurship Today” edited by Giovanna Dossena and published by McGrawHill (for more
detailshttp://www.catalogo.mcgraw-hill.it/catLibro.asp?item_id=2565).
doc_997045580.pdf
Entrepreneurship Today is a conference for academics and practitioners to hear, learn and exchange ideas and perspectives on the latest trends and innovations from leaders in the field of entrepreneurship.
20-21 September Bergamo Italy
Second International Symposium Entrepreneurship Today 2010
www.unibg.it/elab2010
Organized by
Entrepreneurial Laboratory
University of Bergamo - Department of Business Administration
in partnership with ECSB
European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the annual global Elab conference in Bergamo.
Entrepreneurship Today is a conference for academics and practitioners to hear, learn and exchange
ideas and perspectives on the latest trends and innovations from leaders in the field of
entrepreneurship. The conference organizers have arranged a two-day conference packed with
activities for professional development and plenty of time for networking. We invite you to submit
a paper but you are also welcome to register as a participant. We are certain this year’s conference
will be an enriching experience for all of us offering many of opportunities. The conference
program is being finalized, we will have a Keynote Speech by Professor Shaker Zahra from the
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota). We have invited several experts that have
confirmed their presence over this two-day conference: Professor Morten Huse from- BI
Norwegian School of Management (Oslo, Norwey) & Tor Vergata, University (Roma, Italy),
Professor Alain Fayolle- from EM Lyon Business School and Professor Sabine Klein from WHU
Otto Beisheim School of Management.
The 2nd ELAB conference aims to discuss issues related to “Entrepreneurship Today”. What are
the origins of entrepreneurship? What stimulates entrepreneurial propensity? How do entrepreneurs
create, develop and transmit successfully their business models and their ideas? What does it mean
to be an entrepreneur today? Both theoretical and empirical research papers are welcome. We are
looking for studies that apply methodological rigor (both qualitative and quantitative), that use
international empirical evidence, provide concrete implications and are multidisciplinary.
Organized by: the Entrepreneurial Laboratory - University of Bergamo
Submissionsof any aspect of entrepreneurship and small business development are welcome,
but preferably concerning the following topics:
1. Entrepreneurship Governance and Growth
How do entrepreneurs face in this peculiar economic period issues such as the definition of their
business directions, of the business strategy, of their companies’ rules, of their companies
discipline? These are some of the aspects that could be developed. The theme of growth is also a
topic that could generate food for thought and good research proposals for the conference.
2. Entrepreneurship and Managerial issues (Organization, Finance, Marketing)
Papers that deal with entrepreneurship and its special links with issues such as organization, finance
and marketing are also welcome. Moreover proposals that consider entrepreneurship as a behaviour,
and papers that provide evidence of how all members of an organization could behave
entrepreneurially are welcome.
3. Entrepreneurship and Innovation
We seek paper submissions that could advance research on the relationship between
entrepreneurship, innovation and technological change from a variety of perspectives, including
strategic, managerial, behavioural, and operational issues.
4. Entrepreneurship and Education
We invite you to submit your papers related to the bi-directional relationship between
entrepreneurship and education. Submission could consider: the study of the organization and
delivery of entrepreneurship education (academic) and entrepreneurship development (non/credit
instruction); the generation and dissemination of actionable knowledge about entrepreneurship and
learning; individual and organizational learning and development, pedagogical theory and practice
including curriculum design and innovation, learning practice, styles, and methods.
5. Entrepreneurship small businesses and family businesses
At the Symposium a particular attention will be given to the topic of small business and family
businesses. We specifically welcome interdisciplinary papers that develop topics such as: the
fostering of small businesses success and economic development, the management of the
succession issue, family business governance, issues and characteristics of owner-managers and of
multiple generation family businesses, the family business growth.
Publication Opportunities
The best papers will be selected and published in a special issue of the “International Journal
of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
*
(IJESB)”.
*
Special issue guest editors: Alain Fayolle (EM Lyon Business School), Giovanna Dossena (Bergamo
University), Kathleen Randerson (Université de Grenoble), Cristina Bettinelli (Bergamo University)
Organized by: the Entrepreneurial Laboratory - University of Bergamo
Authors should consider that only papers that have been presented during the Symposium will be
considered for the special issue. How to submit:
20 July, 2010 Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
16 August, 2010 Decision on Acceptance (peer blind reviewed)
20-21
st
September, 2010 Conference held
Full paper (first version) has to be sent before the conference by scholars that
are interested in participating into the selection for the IJESB special issue
25 September, 2010 Double blind review process starts
5
th
November, 2010 Reviews returned, notification to accepted authors for special issue
The extended abstract (in either a .pdf or Word file, maximum three pages, single spaced, 12 times
new roman, plus bibliography) should be sent to the following address: [email protected] .
It is important that the abstract does not contain the authors’ name, the paper will be identified by
the organizers with a code that will be communicated after the submission so that reviewers will not
identify authors. The extended abstract should include: title, topic and motivation, contribution to
the literature, methods, and main results.
Scientific Committee:
Alberto Bombassei - Brembo Group
Filippo Calarco - Professional Order of Notaries (Bergamo, Italy)
Giovanna Dossena - University of Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)
Morten Huse - BI Norwegian School of Management (Oslo, Norwey) & Tor Vergata University
(Roma, Italy)
Charlie Karlsson - Jönköping Business School (Jönköping, Sweden)
Maria Minniti - Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business (Dallas, Texas)
Mirano Sancin - Kilometro Rosso Science and Technology Park (Bergamo, Italy)
Carlo Vallini - Firenze University (Firenze, Italy)
Shaker Zahra - University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Vera Negri Zamagni - Bologna University (Bologna, Italy)
Conference Organizers:
Giovanna Dossena (Director Elab University of Bergamo)
Alessandro Danovi (Co-Director of OCRI Company Crisis und Turnaround Research Centre- Elab
University of Bergamo)
Barbara Del Bosco (senior research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Sara Bassani (research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Cristina Bettinelli (research associate Elab University of Bergamo)
Kathleen Randerson (research associate Elab Université de Grenoble)
PAST EVENTS www.unibg.it/elab2009 Key note speakers at the past conference:
David B. Audretsch - Indiana University; Director of the research unit Entrepreneurship, Growth
and Public Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Germany)
Roberto Cafferata – Tor Vergata University, Roma; President, AIDEA (Italian Academy of
Business Administration and Management)
Morten Huse - Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo; Tor Vergata University, Roma;
President Elect, EURAM
Charlie Karlsson - Jönköping Business School (Sweden); Director of CISEG Center for
Innovation Systems, Entrepreneurship and Growth
Last conference publication opportunities
The papers presented at the past conference (Entrepreneurship Today 2009) received valuable
comments and feedbacks and were revised in order to be included in a book called
“Entrepreneurship Today” edited by Giovanna Dossena and published by McGrawHill (for more
detailshttp://www.catalogo.mcgraw-hill.it/catLibro.asp?item_id=2565).
doc_997045580.pdf