CFP: ECIC 2010 - Intellectual Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance

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From: João Leitão [mailto:jleitao71 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:13 PM

Dear Colleague
 
Please see below a CfP on: 'Intellectual Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance'.
 
Look forward to receiving your valuable contribution.
 
With kindest regards
 
João Leitão
 
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon.  
Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+, Lisbon, Portugal.
Av. Rovisco Pais, 
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
 
 
ECIC 2010
29-30 March, Lisbon, Portugal 
Mini track on Intellectual Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance 
Track Chair: João Leitão, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre & Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
 
In management research, various indicators, both economic (objective) and non-economic (subjective), have emerged to measure entrepreneurial performance. This mini-track spotlights intellectual capital in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a core topic for the practitioners, managers and policy makers that are oriented to the promotion of the endogenous growth of SMEs, by taking into consideration the importance of developing intellectual capital within the organization, in order to foster the entrepreneurial performance of SMEs, which are intended as the most innovative entrepreneurial units.

Intellectual capital is an extensive umbrella, which embraces distinct types of capital, namely, human, organizational and social, that deserve to be further explored in order to manage and orientate different types of capital for reaching a common goal, that is, to change the organization for reinforcing the entrepreneurial performance, especially, in the units where the founder and/or manager plays a key role in determining the survival and growth strategy.   
 
The mini-track will therefore draw attention in the different capital determinants that may foster the entrepreneurial performance of SMEs, especially, the knowledge based one. This is a priority that deserves to be explored and addressed with grounded and empirical research.
 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: 
-         Capital Determinants of Economic Performance of Knowledge based SMEs
-         Organizational Change and Performance of Knowledge based SMEs
-         Capital Determinants of Non-economic Performance of SMEs
-         Competitive Intelligence and Networks of SMEs
-         Coaching for Intellectual Capital in SMEs