*****Posted on behalf of Mahesh P Joshi, George Mason U (
mpjoshi@gmu.edu)
*****
Dear Colleagues
(I have posted this message on multiple lists and hence my apologies if
you receive this message more than once!)
Call for Participation
5th Annual Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference (MERC 2009):
Theme of the Conference: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship
Date: Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM followed by a Reception
Location: Mason Hall, George Mason University Fairfax Campus 4400
University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030 (20 miles form Washington DC)
For several years George Mason University has been organizing an annual
research conference to promote dialogue and collaborative research among
scholars interested in the topic of Entrepreneurship spanning across many
disciplines.
Our conference is open to all researchers in the field of
entrepreneurship, because at MERC we firmly believe that research in
Entrepreneurship is not the domain of any one academic discipline. Hence
researchers from all academic disciplines are invited to participate in
this fifth annual event.
You are invited to submit an ABSTRACT OF YOUR RESEARCH that is conceivably
connected with any dimension of entrepreneurship such as international
comparison of entrepreneurial efforts, regional development and role of
government, risk taking, engineering and innovation, autonomy and
leadership, entrepreneurship and cross cultural issues, HR issues as well
as organizational behavior issues. Examples of such academic work
include, but are not limited, to: creativity and innovation, new product
or process development, examining the opportunities to change an
industry, a community or our society through entrepreneurial activities,
role of information technology in entrepreneurship, role of government in
promoting entrepreneurial efforts across boarders.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The fifth annual MERC is pleased to announce that our
keynote speaker is a leading entrepreneur. Many faculty teaching and
researching entrepreneurship may know him as the founder of the firm that
introduced Business Plan Pro software.
Tim Berry, President and Founder of Palo Alto Software (Business PlanPro)
Please submit your fully developed papers/working papers with abstracts
electronically to Mahesh P. Joshi (
mpjoshi@gmu.edu) or Nacef Mouri
(
nmouri@gmu.edu) by March 6th, 2009. Please visit MERC website for
conference details and registration
http://entrepreneurship.gmu.edu/conference.html
Thanks and regards,
Mahesh P. Joshi
Associate Professor
Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship
School of Management, George Mason University
mpjoshi@gmu.edu
703 993 1761
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