ANNOUNCE: ECSB Doctoral Seminar on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

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

From: Helle Neergaard [mailto:hen at asb.dk] 
Date: Tue 12 May 2009 12:24

ECSB-DOCTORAL SEMINAR ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
18 November 2009

Chairpersons
Associate Professor Dr. Helle Neergaard (Aarhus School of Business, Denmark)
Professor Dr. Friederike Welter (Jönköping University, Sweden)

The Doctoral Seminar has a successful tradition at RENT. It represents a unique opportunity for doctoral students to present their thesis proposals and obtain useful insight into how their work can be improved and progressed as well as an opportunity for bouncing ideas off on experienced faculty. The workshop also facilitates the exchange of research experiences and new ideas in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business. The ECSB Doctoral Seminar is truly a meeting place for both new and experienced researchers from all over Europe and an ideal place to start networking. We particularly encourage students in the early stages of their research to participate as a way of launching themselves into the international research community.

Sessions will be organized in 4-5 tracks based on the proposals received from the doctoral students. Two senior faculty experienced in the specific topic addressed will discuss each proposal.

Doctoral candidates interested in attending and presenting their research proposal (not the result of completed research) should send a two page abstract (addressing the topicality of the research, the theoretical background, stating research question(s) and theory questions, as well as the proposed methodology and expected contribution to the field). The abstract, including information on when they commenced their Ph.D. study and when they expect to complete, should be sent to

Dr. Helle Neergaard (hen at asb.dk)
no later than
June 1, 2009

The number of participants is limited to 20 students, so early application is encouraged. Students will be notified of acceptance of their proposal no later than 15 June 2009. Immediately following receipt of acceptance, students are required to register formally for the Conference.

No fee is charged for participation in the Doctoral Seminar. However, participation in the RENT Conference is compulsory. Please note though, that students need not present a paper at the Conference itself to participate, although this is encouraged. Upon acceptance to the Doctoral Seminar students qualify for a significant reduction of the official conference fee, sponsored by EIASM, ACCA and IDEA. The fee also includes one year's membership of ECSB.

Further information on the Doctoral Seminar will be forwarded together with the letter of acceptance. For further information on the RENT Conference itself, please see www.ecsb.org. This is also the place to become familiar with the ECSB organization.

To find further information on the conference please follow the link:

http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=588