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SIG Entrepreneurship Call for papers
Dear colleague, We invite you to submit your papers for the 12th annual EURAM Conference. The deadline for the submission of full papers is 17 January 2011 2:00 p.m. Brussels time. The EURAM'12 tracks are structured by Special Interest Group (SIG). At EURAM, 13 disciplines are represented in our SIGs and all together we will be featuring 79 Tracks (Please visit our website for the full list of tracks: http://euram2012.nl/r/default.asp?iId=FFDDDF). The Entrepreneurship SIG is newly created and is this first year constituted by six various tracks. We hereby invite you specifically to submit your papers to: TRACK 21: Entrepreneurship General Track Track Chairs: SIG Chair: Hans Lundberg, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden (hans.lundberg@lnu.se) SIG co-Chairs: Claire Champenois, Audencia Nantes School of Management, Nantes, France (cchampenois@audencia.com) Luca Gnan, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy (luca.gnan@uniroma2.it) Alain Fayolle, EM LYON Business School, Lyon, France (fayolle@em-lyon.com) Lucrezia Songini, Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy (lucrezia.songini@unibocconi.it) Track Description: Entrepreneurship is a working attitude, a mode of thinking, a concrete everyday practice and increasingly an identity marker for ways of being and living within liquid modernity. Entrepreneurship is nowadays a broadly endorsed and accepted signifier for forms of organizing that targets human, organizational and economic renewal and growth. While empirical evidence for these politically and individually appealing ends are to be found, the contingency and contextuality of the myriad of entrepreneurial forms of organizing may humble us in face of the apparently Zen Buddhist quality of entrepreneurship; the more determined the efforts to pinpoint, box and fence it gets, the more elusively it retreats back to various in-between voids. Such a quality is unbearable for conceptual monopolists and impractical for those in positions where efficiency and effectiveness are agenda setting norms, why the discourse on entrepreneurship is a constant prey for various unidirectional advocates. Given this backdrop, the overall objective with the entrepreneurship SIG is to perform the EURAM mission in detail in all its operations: That is, to place "a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and methodological pluralism" and to promote "critical examinations of the historical and philosophical roots of management theory and praxis" (excerpts from EURAM mission). The overall challenge the entreprenership SIG addresses, is that it aims to respond to the broadly acknowledged need within the European entrepreneurship research community for building accepted paradigms and theories within the various subfields of entrepreneurship, while still embracing entrepreneurial forms of organizing in all its diversity as well as novel ways of researching such organizing. A challenge as multifaceted as the phenomena of entrepreneurship itself, so please join us and contribute with your engaged scholarship if you feel as excited by this challenge as we do. As the general entrepreneurship track within the Entrepreneurship SIG, we welcome researchers, teachers, Ph.D. students, consultants, entrepreneurs and anyone else who shares our mission and invites contributions from all areas related to entrepreneurship that are not explicitly covered by other tracks within the SIG. We welcome studies which are interested in the creation and management of new businesses, small businesses and family businesses, and the characteristics and special problems of entrepreneurs. Papers adopting different theoretical lenses, using different research methods, analyzing different types of companies and exploring entrepreneurship in different countries are strongly encouraged. Indicative titles within this general track are: - new venture ideas and strategies - environmental influences on venture creation and demise - the acquisition and management of venture - capital and venture teams - self-employment and collaborative forms of entrepreneuring - the owner-manager nexus - management succession - corporate venturing and the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development - critical examinations of the historical and philosophical roots of entrepreneurship theory and praxis - novel ways of researching entrepreneurial forms of organizing Author Guidelines and Formatting Instructions: Below is a set of guidelines and formatting instructions to help you prepare and submit your paper. You may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers Please read them carefully prior to submitting: Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track (see list of tracks on EURAM 2012 Website www.euram2012.nl) Submitted papers must NOT have been previously presented, published, accepted for publication, and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2012 Conference. To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements, from the text. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED). The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format. The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide. Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around. Number all of the pages of the paper. NO changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly (i.e. all imported figures and tables are there), and ensure that the file is virus-free. 10. Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2012 Website (http://www.euram2012.nl). 11. Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review. NOTE: In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference. Should you have any questions, please contact us at euram2012@rsm.nl. We look forward to hearing from you, Henk Volberda, EURAM'12 Conference Chair Hans Lundberg, EURAM'12 Entrepreneurship SIG Chair |