REMINDER: West Lake International Conference on Small and Medium Business (WLICSMB)

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

Call for Papers - West Lake International Conference on Small and Medium
Business (WLICSMB)
Oct 21-23,2007 Hangzhou,China
Deadline: 1 Sep 2007

The WLICSMB, as an important item of the West Lake Exposition, took
place in Hangzhou since October 1999.  More than one hundred delegates
from more than ten countries participated in the conference annually.
Since then, the conference has attracted more and more international
scholars, entrepreneurs, official, etc.

Its basic objectives are to provide a forum for sharing experiences,
case study, results of development activities, idea, applications &
research, results & collaboration, opportunities in Small & Medium
Business, and promoting mutual relationships and providing business
opportunities by developing communication linkages and networks among
participating representatives.

Hangzhou, as the capital of Zhejiang Province, is a key scenic and
tourist city, a famous historic cultural city and one of the Seven
Ancient Capitals in China. With its picturesque landscape, Hangzhou is
praised as "Paradise on the Earth ". Hangzhou sponsored its first West
Lake Exposition in 1929, which had the same image as those of the
Chicago Exposition in 1893, the Paris Exposition in 1900 and the
Philadelphia Exposition in 1927. The WLICSMB is an item of West Lake
Exposition.

Subtopics:
* SMB Innovation
* Survival & Growth of SMB
* Family Business & Its Development
* The Role & Functions of SMB in the economy
* SMB Financing & Investment
* Governments' Policies for SMB
* High-tech SMB and Venture Capital
* SMB International Cooperation
* SMB Human Resources Management
* SMB and E-Commerce
* Industrial Cluster of SMB
* Internet Marketing for SMB
* Knowledge Management
* Venture formation
* R&D Management
* Development Strategies of SMB
* Etc.

Call for Papers
The paper should be in clear terms up the current standing of the
research within the field of the proposed conference subtopics. Please
see "Subtopics".
A summary should be submitted, in A4 format, typed using 13-point type
in Times New Roman, which should include about 2 pages, for
consideration. The margins (top/bottom and sides) should be at 25 mm.
Each submission should include a separate title page and the summary
pages. Please provide the following information, on a separate sheet at
the beginning of the paper for reader's inquiries: Name, Position,
Organization, Address, Tel, Fax and E-mail. Please visit the conference
website for the WLICSMB2007 paper format sample. And all papers should
be submitted electronically through the conference website.

Important Dates:

Submission of Paper Summary: by Sept. 1. 2007
Submission of Full Paper: by Sept. 25. 2007

More info at http://www.wlicsmb.org/