This year's annual LGA finance conference will focus on future public spending and the implications for local government. The conference will hear from the Local Government Association as well as from a panel of leading local authority representatives discussing what this will mean for councils.

This Doctoral Tutorial 1 is the first tutorial in this Doctoral Track on Entrepreneurship and Innovation This tutorial gives the participants the opportunity to present the intermediate results of their own research project/paper to leading peers.

We invite researchers, educators, practitioners and those working in small business support and policy organisations to join us in exploring the leading perspectives in entrepreneurship and discuss how they can be applied in practice. The annual ISBE conference continues to be the premier UK...

Change with agility means getting the processes right before embarking on disjoint organizational or technology overhauls. This will be key as we emerge from current economic challenges in a world of more regulation, merged companies and a fickle marketplace that will not tolerate supplier...

The aim of this workshop is bring together authors working around the nexus of this dichotomy ethics of security/security of ethics, not as an exercise in flag waving, but rather to develop a critical interrogation of this important if problematic subject. Key questions that participants might...

Infrastructure Investment World Asia will discuss the following: - Opportunities available to infrastructure owners, banks and investors as a result of government initiatives - Partnership and investment models suitable for different Asian countries - Seeking alternative capital and financing...

This stream covers papers on the theme of efficiency and productivity analysis and performance management. Both parametric and non-parametric papers will be considered. We especially welcome papers on the theory, methodology and application of data envelopment analysis and econometric methods in...

Abstracts are welcome on theoretical, empirical and applied housing research but are particularly welcomed from a sociological or social sciences perspective (broadly and not in any way exhaustive: geography, political science, public policy, social policy, economics, finance, management &...

This year, the Conference theme is Heterodox Economics and Sustainable Development, twenty years on. Sustainable development is the main challenge facing humankind for this century. The recognition of fundamental failures within mainstream economics and discontent amongst people concerned about...

There will be two tracks, the first focussing on economic theory particularly social choice, decision/utility theory, experimental work and economic theory in philosophy. The second track will cover particularly subfields where human welfare is particularly important including health,...