Opportunities to submit papers to the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE)

This year’s ISBE conference entitled ‘Celebrating 3 decades of excellence in education, research and practice: at the cutting edge of entrepreneurship’ will be held in Liverpool from 3rd to 6th November 2009. Aiming to bring a fresh approach to the entrepreneurship debate the conference has undergone changes such as the revision and updating of the track themes which now includes a new track on Creative Industries Entrepreneurship.

The ten track themes into which abstracts details can be submitted are:

• Learning for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Education
• Business Creation and Development – Stimulating Start-ups
• Creative Industries Entrepreneurship
• ICT, IT and E-Business in the Small Firm Sector
• Gender and Enterprise
• Entrepreneurship, Networks, Innovation and Resource Acquisition
• Management, Skills Development and Growth Issues
• Social, Environmental and Ethical Enterprise
• Venture Capital, Finance, Taxation and Regulation
• Business Support and Internationalisation

Opportunities to submit four different types of papers to this year’s conference which are:

Working papers are research pieces which are in progress and give an insight into current research thinking and activities. They provide an opportunity for authors to present their work and receive constructive feedback prior to developing research for publication.
 
Practitioner papers enable practitioners to highlight excellent and distinctive practice in enterprise creation and development. Evidence of effectiveness of the practices presented with clear practical or policy implications must be highlighted within submissions.

Case studies are intensive studies of single or group, incident, or community and should involve in-depth, possibly even longitudinal examination of a single instance or event. Submissions are expected to provide a sharpened understanding of why the instance happened as it did, and evidence what aspect might become important to look at more extensively in future research.

Refereed papers are papers which have been through a refereeing process by ISBE expert reviewers and have been accepted.

Paper submissions are welcomed from non-members of the ISBE network. 

Deadlines for submissions are:
• 31st May 2009 for Refereed abstracts
• 30th June 2009 for Working and Practitioner Papers and Case Studies

For further information about ISBE, the annual conference or paper submission visit www.isbe.org.uk