Topics: - Knowledge sources of entrepreneurship (e.g. from science, employees or users) - Human capital challenges for enabling and sustaining entrepreneurial activity and innovation - Issues in entrepreneurship culture - Assessment of the spatial distribution and local clustering of innovative...

The background to the workshop is the revolutionary development of the theory of the firm that has taken place during the last 35 years. In spite of all the progress in the field the traces in microeconomic and industrial organization textbooks are scant.

We especially welcome papers dealing with the following areas: - Industrial dynamics and firm demography - Portfolio, serial and novice entrepreneurship - Institutions and entrepreneurship - Productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship policy

Four categories of research are of interest for the workshop: 1) Conceptual and empirical research focusing on the specific sub-theme of “Entrepreneurial families and family firms”. 2) Review of the family business research field: state-of-the-art papers that allow to discuss the knowledge...

The conference theme, “Accounting Leadership in Education, Research and Industry / Conduite de comptabilité dans l'éducation, la recherche et l'industrie”, challenges participants to go beyond the traditional preparer or user role of accounting information and to focus attention on the...