Faculty of Management and Economics

Gdansk University of Technology (Poland)

and

ICAN Institute -

Harvard Business Review Polska

are announcing

IV International Entrepreneurship Conference ENTIME

2010

17-18 June 2010

Gdansk, Poland

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MODERN ECONOMY

– CHALLENGES AND RISKS

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Faculty of Management and Economics of Gdansk University of Technology (Poland) and

ICAN Institute - Harvard Business Review Polska are proud to host the Fourth Enterprise in Modern Economy (ENTIME) Conference. This entrepreneurship conference is designed to bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars and insightful practitioners from the fields of international business and small business/entrepreneurship, in order to examine challenges and risks that firms have to face and deal with in a modern economy. The event is a great opportunity to share knowledge and experience of entrepreneurial research and studies from all over the world. On this occasion we have a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Third International Entrepreneurship Conference ENTIME held in the Faculty of Management and Economics.

Thematic areas

Below are the potential thematic fields to be covered:

1. Enterprise on global market, particularly:

a) Shadow (grey) economy problems

b) Dealing with the global economy crisis – firms` perspective

2. Selected aspects of enterprise functioning, particularly:

a) Inter-enterprise ties, networks and social capital

b) Strategies for internationalizing SMEs

c) Cross-national comparisons of internationally-oriented firms or patterns of their growth

d) Survival and bankruptcy of firms on competitive markets

3. Research methods in entrepreneurship studies, particularly:

a) Qualitative methods in entrepreneurial research

b) Quantitative methods in entrepreneurial research

Scientific Board

Prof. Piotr Dominiak – President – Faculty of Mangement and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Josef Mugler, Institute for Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Wien, Austria

Prof. David Kirby, British University in Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Asko Miettinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Prof. Rita Klapper, Ecole Superieure de Comerce et de Management (Rouen Business School), Rouen, France

Prof. Alessandro Sterlacchini, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Prof. Enrico Santarelli, University of Bologna, Italy

Prof. Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Prof. Marek Rekowski, Economic University in Poznan, Poland

Prof. Franciszek Blawat, Faculty of Mangement and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Jerzy Czeslaw Ossowski, Faculty of Mangement and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Julita Wasilczuk, Faculty of Mangement and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Nelly Daszkiewicz, Faculty of Mangement and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Myles P. Gartland, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, USA

Prof. David Smallbone, Kingston University London, United Kingdom

Post–conference publication

All papers referring to the presented thematic areas are welcomed.

A selected number of accepted papers – by scientific board –will be expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special books (monograph) published in Harvard Business Review Polska (ICAN Institute is the publisher). English will be a leading language of the publication. Only papers that will pass a positive review process will be forwarded to publication. The rest of conference papers (not included in publication at Harvard Business Review Polska) – accepted by reviewers – will be included for publication in monograph published at Gdansk University of Technology or any other publisher.

Payment

The conference fee is:

The conference fee covers: access to all sessions, CD-ROM containing all accepted conference proceedings, coffee breaks, lunch, dinner in restaurant – banquet (on evening 17th June 2010), publication in post-conference monograph published in Harvard Business Review Polska (if accepted) or any other monograph publication.

Calendar

29.02.2010 – on-line or via e-mail registration with abstract and title of your paper

30.03.2010 – advanced conference fee payment

01.04.2010 – full text paper submission

15.04.2010 – late conference fee payment

30.05.2010 – if you wish you can send us your conference presentation (to be uploaded on the conference website)

17-18.06.2010 – Conference at Gdansk University of Technology

Organizing committee and contact

Professor Jerzy Czeslaw Ossowski - President of the Committee

Committee members:

Ewa Lechman, PhD

Contact: e-mail: entime@zie.pg.gda.pl or by phone:

Office: 0048 58 348 6003

Mobile: 0048 601 91 48 34

Aneta Sobiechowska-Ziegert, PhD

Aniela Mikulska, PhD

Karol Flisikowski, MSc. Eng.

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