Call for Papers
16th Nordic Conference
on Small Business Research
May 20-21, 2010
Department of Entrepreneurship and
Relationship Management
University
of Southern Denmark, Kolding
Since its inception in
1980 the conference has been a biannual event in the Nordic tradition,
characterized by an open atmosphere that encourages the exchange of ideas between
researchers with different research interests in the field of small business
research. The 2010 conference will continue this tradition and welcomes papers
in different fields of small business research, including:
· Opportunity
seeking behaviour and market creation of SMEs
· Studies
of SMEs in a diversified world
· Strategies
in SMEs
· Innovation
management in small firms
· Theories
on serial and habitual entrepreneurs
· The
issue of gender in entrepreneurship & small business
· Studies
on entrepreneurs/SMEs with high growth potentials
· Methodological
frontiers in the study of SMEs
· SMEs
in clusters and networks
· SME
& Entrepreneurship policy
· Theories
of human and social capital in a SME context
The
conference programme will feature keynote speeches and paper sessions in the
above and other emerging small business and entrepreneurship research fields.
Empirical and conceptual papers as well as case studies and methodological
papers are welcome.
Doctoral Proposal
Conference
The conference offers
doctoral students an arena to discuss their research findings with their peers
and experienced researchers in their line of research.
The conference will take
place on May 19 and the venue will be Hotel Koldingfjord.
· The
doctoral proposal conference will be organized and led by:
· Ass.
Professor Kim Klyver, University of Southern Denmark (chair)
· Professor
Per Freytag, University of Southern Denmark
· Professor
Hans Landström, Univeristy of Lund, Sweden
· Associate
Professor Urve Venesaar, Tallinn University of Technology
· Dr.
Elisabeth Ljunggren, Nordland Research Institute, Norway
Participation in the
doctoral proposal conference is included in the conference fee. All doctoral
students are invited to join the sessions.
The number of
participating doctoral students is limited to 20. Doctoral students interested
in presenting their research proposal should send an abstract on one page to the
conference secretary Lone Møland Rasmussen (using the conference e-mail:
nordic@ncsb2010.dk) by February 10, 2010 . Please write ‘Nordic Doctoral
Proposal Conference 2010’ in the subject line. Notification will be given by
February 25, 2010.
Sessions will be
organized based on the proposals from the doctoral students. The early
registration fee for doctoral students who participate in the doctoral proposal
conference will be of only 300 Euro. Deadline for early registration is March
12, 2010.
Important dates
Papers
Submission of extended
abstract (2 pages): February 10, 2010
Notification of
acceptance:
February 25, 2010
Submission of full
papers:
April 12, 2010
Registration
Early registration:
March 12, 2010 (400 Euro)
Late registration:
April 12, 2010 (500
Euro)
Hotel reservation
Until April 12, 2010,
100 hotel rooms are reserved for conference participants. Participants are
obligated to book the rooms themselves.
The discounted price for
rooms is DKK 995 per night including breakfast buffet.
Please remember to mention
the conference name in order to receive the discount. Further information on
hotel reservations will be available shortly on www.ncsb2010.dk