Both innovation and entrepreneurship are generally under-researched and the advisory group for the conference invites submissions of both academic and practitioner papers on a wide range of topics and a wide range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing...

The relationship between innovation and economic governance institutions is a relatively under-studied area of research. This has been the case despite extensive work on the relationship between governance quality and other economic outcomes such as growth, investment, and income distribution....

The Efficiency & Productivity Analysis stream aims to bring together researchers and practitioners dealing with the development of DEA methodology and its hybrids and applications of DEA to performance management and measurement in both public and private sectors. Theoretical and empirical...

The Congress general theme is ‘Financial System and the International Economy Post-Crisis’. The Congress will have two special sessions: ‘Strategies for economic growth after the crisis – global and Brazilian economy’ and ‘Spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: in honour of Prof Fernando...

This course will focus on the macroeconomics of the labour market, in particular, the role of frictions in the explanation of employment fluctuations and unemployment equilibrium. We will spend some time on the micro-foundations of labour market behaviour, before moving on to aggregate...

Cass Business School is the first major institution to pursue leading-edge research into the global mergers and acquisitions industry through its Merger & Acquisition Research Center.

Potential topics include: - Unique characteristics of Latin American MNCs and Multilatinas - Applicability of core strategy theories (i.e., the resource based view, organizational economics, strategic group theory, agency theory, institutional theory) to this region - Differences between...

Tracks · Financial crises and its impact on SMEs · Competitivenes of SMEs · Women and gender issues · Micro-Financing issues · Entrepreneurship · Electronic commerce, Technology transfer · Human resource management · Government policy · The role of SMEs in economic development and...