Due to globalization and higher international trade volumes there is an increasing trend in management research to conduct cross-cultural, cross-national and cross-disciplinary studies. Methods and methodology for comparative studies, however, require special knowledge and special skills....

The purpose of this course is to introduce doctoral students from Europe and around the world to the diversity of ways of conducting case study research and to improve their own research practice. It aims to provide an overview of recent trends and debates on the case study in management and...

The course provides knowledge in: - designing theory based cross-cultural/ international studies - conducting cross-cultural research - quantitative and qualitative cross-cultural comparative methodology - doing cross-cultural collaborative research - doing research in transitional and...

Key Topics: - Management of innovation - Economics of innovation and entrepreneurship - Innovation and entrepreneurship for educators - Innovation and entrepreneurship in business - International innovation and entrepreneurship - Social innovation - Innovation and entrepreneurship in minority groups

The objective of the course is to offer the students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with some of the recent theoretical themes in Entrepreneurship research and to identify interesting research questions related to these themes.

The goals of ECIC 2012 are to provide a platform for presenting different academic and professional approaches (i.e. conceptual, empirical, managerial, multidisciplinary and case studies etc.) and discussions on recent developments and the outlook for the future in the field of intellectual...