The objective of IBEC is to provide a forum for intellectual discussion among scholars and practitioners. We seek to provide a platform to analyze the strategic challenges faced by firms, educators, governments, and other institutions in the global arena. Topics: international business...

Thèmes: - Les lignées entrepreneuriales - L’entrepreneuriat familial, - L’éducation et l’apprentissage à l’entrepreneuriat par la famille, - La famille vs. école comme lieu d’apprentissage à l’entrepreneuriat - Ressources familiales et entrepreneuriat - Multiplicité des rôles...

The aim of the conference is to explore the role of clusters as drivers of firms, regions and nations competitiveness. Clusters are comprised as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, services provides, firms in related industries, and association...

The aim of the iSME conference is to give more visibility and relevance to the internationalisation of SMEs, reviewing current trends, new theories, latest experiences and exchanging best practices. The goal is to provide a forum of communication between researchers, practitioners,...

In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the conference will address policy priorities for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and reflect on how innovation can support the transition towards a resource efficient and competitive economy. The conference will bring together the Europe...

The conference aims to enhance general understanding of a number of logistics and supply chain-related management issues: - Procurement and supply chains (purchasing and supply chain performance, purchasing/logistics relationships, purchasing of services, logistics outsourcing) - Supply chain...

The conference will be organized around a number of themes on the following broad issues: 1. Innovation, education, health, inequality and development 2. Population dynamics, gender equity, migration and development 3. Agriculture, fishing, biofuel, energy systems, water supply, transport,...

Topics: - How to characterize family enterprising - Transmission, acquisition and family enterprising - Family enterprising: special support? - Economic approaches to family enterprising - Family enterprising beyond the small scale - International convergence and divergence around family...

As usual, all subject matters will be welcomed, but we would like to suggest a particular theme for the 2008 edition : "The FAILURE" This theme could include several kinds of papers : - the history of a failure - the consequence and the lessons of a failure - the management of a failure - the...