Call for Papers and Cases - SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JULY
2nd GSB Conference on the Business of Social and Environmental
Innovation:
Informal Sector Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship
UCT Graduate School of Business
Cape Town, South Africa, 22-23 October 2012
The overarching conference objective remains the development of a better
understanding of the role of business in developing innovative responses
to complex social and environmental problems, and the creation of a
network of researchers and reflective practitioners working on such
themes especially in Africa. We welcome papers and cases that address
this broad theme, but invite in particular submissions on this year's
focus themes of informal sector entrepreneurship and social
entrepreneurship - with specific emphasis on the intersection between
them.
Informal sector entrepreneurship drives trillions of dollars of value
creation and shapes the fundamental nature of economic and social life
for billions of people around the globe, but it has received remarkably
little attention from academic research. We seek a better understanding
of the opportunities and constraints faced by entrepreneurs in the
informal sector, their impacts and consequences, and how they interact
with broader societal and institutional forces, including public policy
and formal sector businesses and their supply chains.
The second focus theme, social entrepreneurship, relates to the
development of innovative, market-linked solutions to social and / or
environmental problems. Such initiatives vary in terms of their priority
objectives, their scale, or their organisational form, and there are
also on-going debates about appropriate definitions of social
entrepreneurship (or related terms), but a common denominator is the
application of business principles to a social purpose. There is thus an
important intersection between social entrepreneurship and informal
sector entrepreneurship, where there are opportunities to enhance poor
people's livelihoods through innovative approaches to the production,
distribution or consumption of appropriate goods and services.
Please submit an extended abstract (about 1000 - 2000 words) of your
scholarly paper or practitioner case study to Tamlyn Mawa at
tamlyn.mawa@gsb.uct.ac.za by 31 July 2012. Authors will be notified
regarding acceptance of papers and cases by 15 August 2012. Registration
opens on 1 July 2012 via the conference website:
http://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/BSEI. The conference fee is ZAR 900. Please
also note that fee waivers and / or travel bursaries are available for
deserving applicants - please submit a motivation with your abstract.
Ralph Hamann
Assoc Prof & Research Director
Graduate School of Business
University of Cape Town
Portswood Road, Green Point 8005
Cape Town, South Africa
Office Telephone: +27 (0)21 406 1503
Email:
ralph.hamann@gsb.uct.ac.za
Blog/Personal Website: gsbblogs.uct.ac.za/seec
Website:www.gsb.uct.ac.za
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