CFP: The Lines of Growing/Transporting Entrepreneurship in/to Transition Economies (IJEIM)

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Call for Papers - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Management  (IJEIM)
Special Issue on: "The Lines of Growing/Transporting Entrepreneurship
in/to Transition Economies"
Deadline: 1 February 2008

Guest Editors:
Marina Dabic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Michael G. Harvey, University of Mississippi USA; Bond University,
Australia

Encouraging entrepreneurship to flourish in transition economies is the
theme of this special issue. With the rapidly increasing global
integration of business, international assignments have come to play a
central role in corporate careers and in the business strategies of
multinational organisations.

While research has been conducted on these issues for years, recent
changes in the competitive environment worldwide, business strategy,
contractual arrangements and cross-border labour markets are producing
new and relevant developments that directly impact theory and practice
in this area. Drucker (1992) argued that virtually every aspect of
innovation has relevance either directly or indirectly for
entrepreneurial management, including structures and processes which
encourage learning, differences in learning across the levels of the
organisation and transfer mechanisms and learning.

Findings from the studies suggest that both internationalisation and
entrepreneurs be important for internationalisation processes. Today,
almost every university offers some sort of entrepreneurship course or
programme.

The purpose of this special issue is to provide a state-of the art
assessment of our knowledge and understanding of 21st century global
assignments and their entrepreneurs' correlates, and to directly link
transition countries and entrepreneurship in the context of global
economy. Faculty and instructors, doctoral students, professionals,
professional association staff, and consultants from all subject areas
broadly related to entrepreneurship and innovation management are
encouraged to submit proposals.

Subject Coverage

In this Special Issue, we are interested in publishing papers that
examine, conceptually and empirically, the process and outcomes of
innovation in entrepreneurial contexts. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* The relationship between innovation and organisational effectiveness
in entrepreneurial contexts
* Entrepreneurships dynamic of Central and Eastern European EE
post-communism countries
* Gender position in entrepreneurship
* Diffusing the entrepreneurship concept in transition economy
* The learning advantages of newness in entrepreneurial start-up and
development
* Inter-organisational learning in entrepreneurial networks;
entrepreneurship education across transition countries
* The relationship between R&D and (knowledge) resources based views of
the entrepreneurial firm
* The role of gazelles for the transition economies
* The application of learning theories to entrepreneurship
* The development and application of alternative methodologies to access
innovative processes and outcomes in entrepreneurial contexts
* Cross-cultural dimensions of entrepreneurial learning
* Entrepreneurial performance in a transition economy
* Critical organisational elements in corporate entrepreneurship
* Intellectual protection and small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
* Entrepreneurs and technology diffusion
* Entrepreneurship development through education
* Technology strategy in SMEs
* Innovative atmosphere
* Business plans for teaching entrepreneurship behaviour

Notes for Intending Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for
authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting
papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 February 2008

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Marina Dabic
Faculty of Economics & Business
University of Zagreb
10 000 Zagreb,
J. F. Kennedy Square 6,
Croatia
E-mail: mdabic at efzg.hr

and

Michael Harvey
University of Mississippi,
School of Business Administration,
332 Holman Hall,
University of Mississippi, MS 38766
USA
E-mail: mharvey at bus.olemiss.edu

with a copy to:

IEL Editorial Office
E-mail: ijeim at inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor

More info at
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=756