The theme of the Conference for ECIE 2014 is "Societal-driven innovation and entrepreneurship". At this conference we would like to underline an important European innovation and entrepreneurship challenge of enhancing the development of the social economy sector.

Topics: - Ownership form, such as pyramidal ownership, business groups, keiretsus, chaebols and mutuals, and its impact on corporate governance - Family control and ownership - The role of hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds - Dual-class capitalisations and unifications - Large and small...

Social media is a field of growing importance in our understanding of society, business and education. Emerging from the rapid adoption of internet technologies social media is liable to grow even more ubiquitous, as the smart phone, tablet and other mobile platforms proliferate . Social media...

The call centres on the metaphor of 'terra' - the various grounds social scientists stand on to articulate their social constructions. And we invite contributors to use this metaphor to explore the established, the new and the unknown in organizational discourse analysis. Topics: - Aesthetics...

The conference committee is attracted by both theoretical and practical papers on many subjects, as well as by innovative ideas and experiences. We are also interested in case studies that demonstrate how research strategies have been applied and the lessons learned. We welcome contributions on...

The IPA conference is an established forum for research into the social, political and organizational aspects of accounting theory and practice. The Conference is the premier conference for the interdisciplinary study of accounting, bringing together accounting researchers with broad social...

Each year the European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM) provides a forum to meet and exchange views on our lives as researchers and academics, with others who understand the world in which we live. Over a few days, with those impassioned with all that...

The theme of the symposium is on management accounting and control (MAC) in the era of globalization and digitization. Papers undertaken in the context of transitional and emerging economies are particularly welcome. Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Assessment of existing...