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Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to apply to participate in the Paper Development Workshop on "SMEs and Family Firms in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European Economies". The workshop is intended primarily for doctoral students and early-career academics and takes place on May 17, 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Management scholars doing research set in the geographic area but not focusing on SMEs and Family business are very welcomed to apply to attend.

Workshop participants can also participate in the Management and Organization Review's Second Research Frontiers Conference III on "The Coevolution of SMEs and Family Firms in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European Economies: Knowledge Creation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth." The conference takes place on May 17-19, 2017.

 Please find the call for the Paper Development Workshop below.

 Best regards,

Henk W. Volberda, RSM Erasmus University

Oli R. Mihalache, VU University Amsterdam

Igor B. Gurkov, Higher School of Economics

Arie Y. Lewin, Editor in Chief MOR, Duke University

Carl Fey, Aalto University & Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Paper Development Workshop for Doctoral Students and Early-Career Academics on:

"SMEs and Family Firms in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European Economies"

May 17, 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

The Paper Development Workshop aims to help doctoral students and early-career academics develop their research papers on SMEs and family firms operating in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European Economies.

 Workshop participants will receive developmental feedback on their studies from Arie Y. Lewin (Duke University, Editor in Chief MOR), Henk Volberda (RSM Erasmus University, Consulting Editor MOR), Carl Fey (Aalto University & Chinese University of Hong Kong, Deputy Editor MOR), Igor B. Gurkov (Higher School of Economics), and Oli Mihalache (VU University Amsterdam, Associate Editor European Management Review).

 The workshop is organized in the opening of Management and Organization Review's Second Research Frontiers Conference III on "The Coevolution of SMEs and Family Firms in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European Economies: Knowledge Creation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth." The core theme of the conference explores the coevolution of SMEs and family firms in Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European economies. Most scholars in strategy, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and international business study this question by considering environmental change as an exogenous variable. Moreover, they often employ a single theme for describing how and why organizations tend to become isomorphic with their (regional, national, and global) environments through processes of either adaptation or selection. Less frequently examined are questions of how organizations systematically influence their (regional, national, and global) environments and how global and national environments (comprised of other firms and new entrants) influence those organizations in turn. In this MOR Research Frontiers Conference we will discuss the complex, multi-level causal interactions in the context of Russia, Ex-Soviet Republics, and Eastern European countries and the firms residing in them, in particular how firms' strategies, management practices, and their eco-systems affect and are affected by the factors shaping innovation, entrepreneurship and national competitiveness. Management scholars doing research set in the geographic area but not focusing on SMEs and Family business are very welcomed to apply to attend.

 If you would like to apply to participate in the workshop, please submit a one-page summary of your study to Dr. Oli Mihalache at r.o.mihalache@vu.nl before April 23^rd, 2017.

 The regular participation fee is 295 Euro. Doctoral students pay a reduced fee of 195 Euro. The fee includes access to the MOR conference on May 17-19, two dinners, two lunches, and snacks and drinks during the entire conference.

MOR's Second Research Frontiers Conference III Program Committee:

Henk W. Volberda, RSM Erasmus University

Oli R. Mihalache, VU University Amsterdam

Igor B. Gurkov, Higher School of Economics

Arie Y. Lewin, Editor in Chief MOR, Duke University

Carl Fey, Aalto University & Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Management and Organization Review's Second Research Frontiers Conference III:

 CONFERENCE PROGRAM