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Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) luca.gnan@uniroma2.it 

Massimiliano M. Pellegrini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) massimiliano.pellegrini@uniroma2.it

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COMMUNICATION OFFICERS: 
Alessia Munnia (Università di Catania, Italy) alessia.munnia@phd.unict.it
Francesco Russo (Università di Catania, Italy) francesco.russo@phd.unict.it 

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PAST CHAIRS:
Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)  luca.gnan@uniroma2.it
Marzena
				

			
			 Starnawska (University of Warsaw, Poland) mstarnawska@wz.uw.edu.pl
Matthias
				

			
			 Raith (Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany) 

			

				raith@ovgu.de
Massimiliano Pellegrini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) massimiliano.pellegrini@uniroma2.it
Lucrezia
			
			Songini (Eastern Piedmont University, Italy) 

			

				lucrezia.songini@uniupo.it
				

			     

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PAST CHAIR & ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG FOUNDER:

Hans
			Lundberg (Linnaeus University, Sweden) 
			
				hans.lundberg@lnu.se

For more information contact:  Patrick Spieth,  University of Kassel,  spieth@uni-kassel.de

SMEs growth strategies are characterized not only by complex paths of internationalization, but also – increasingly – by digitalization and sustainability. Furthermore, SMEs are often part of international value chains and are therefore exposed to repeated shocks in the environment which challenge their survivability and resilience. Management scholars are invited to provide new perspectives on international entrepreneurial strategies of SMEs, their challenges and evolving business models (also in terms of digital transformation and sustainability), their relation – inter alia – to countries of destination, timing and entry mode, managerial tools, organizational structure, type and quality of acquired knowledge, learning processes.

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For more information contact: Lara Penco , University of Genoa, lara.penco@economia.unige.it

ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG TRACKS

T03_08 - Migrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship for inclusion - exploring the bright, the dark and the in-between Economy

Migrant, ex-pat, and ethnic minority entrepreneurship for inclusion is an important phenomenon to tackle grand sustainability challenges, namely lack of decent work, economic growth and inequalities. On the one hand, migrant entrepreneurship can act as a facilitator for migrants to accelerate sustainable (de)growth and personal development to gain access to the economy and the social system. On the other hand, it can act as hindrance limiting migrants to expand their networks, resources, and approach to sustainability. It is a multi-facet phenomenon that calls for further understanding of the bright, the dark and the in-between at the multi-levels and -dimensions. 

For more information contact:  Quang David Evansluong, Umea University, Sweden, and VinUniversity, Vietnam, quang.evansluong@gmail.com 

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with ST03_05 - Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development. 

T03_09 - Life Design, Entrepreneurial Life Design, Design Y/our Future 

Life Design has the objective to support humans using the innovation method design thinking with positive psychology helping individuals to design a meaningful future. By applying the notion of prototyping and iterating to careers, side-hustles, and entrepreneurial activity, it aims to foster pro-active behavior and to legitimize experimenting in society for a better person-occupation fit leading to more psychological capital, reduced stress, and improved mental health and well-being. Given the inter-disciplinarity of the subject and strong relation between academics and practitioners, we encourage submissions from a diverse range of perspectives such as design thinking, positive psychology, transitions, ageing, and others.

For more information contact:  Sebastian Kernbach, University of St. Gallen, Stanford University, African Doctoral Academy, sebastian.kernbach@gmail.com 

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with other tracks, giving birth to T03_12 Exploring new horizons in entrepreneurship: Platform economy, creative industries and life design. 

T03_10 - Circularity and entrepreneurship

Circularity represents an inspirational idea. Circular Economy (CE) is a new entrepreneurial approach with great impact on the managerial side. We are interested in exploring how CE influences operations and design making processes; moreover, the assessment of CE needs to be investigated through innovative tools, such as LCA. 

For more information contact:  Giorgio Cantino, University of Eastern Piedmont, giorgio.cantino@uniupo.it

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with other tracks, giving birth to ST03_06 - Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. 

T03_11 - Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education and Educators

The track in sustainable entrepreneurship education focuses on the critical intersection of entrepreneurship and sustainability, aiming to develop innovative approaches, pedagogical strategies, and curricular frameworks that sensibilize and empower individuals to create environmentally and socially responsible ventures. With a growing need for sustainable practices, this research track seeks to bridge the gap between traditional entrepreneurship education and the pressing challenges of today’s world. Topics will include innovative teaching methodologies to foster sustainable entrepreneurial thinking and doing, sustainable curriculum design,  the development and implementation of new measurements such as outcomes and coherent assessment techniques, and the role of partnerships and collaborations.

For more information contact: Bettina Maisch, Munich University of Applied Sciences – bettina.maisch@hm.edu 

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with track T03_14 - Academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer processes. 

T03_12 - The platform economy for Venturing and Collaborating: Entrepreneurs, Stakeholders, Technologies, and Ecosystems

The track in sustainable entrepreneurship education focuses on the critical intersection of entrepreneurship and sustainability, aiming to develop innovative approaches, pedagogical strategies, and curricular frameworks that sensibilize and empower individuals to create environmentally and socially responsible ventures. With a growing need for sustainable practices, this research track seeks to bridge the gap between traditional entrepreneurship education and the pressing challenges of today’s world. Topics will include innovative teaching methodologies to foster sustainable entrepreneurial thinking and doing, sustainable curriculum design,  the development and implementation of new measurements such as outcomes and coherent assessment techniques, and the role of partnerships and collaborations.

For more information contact: Djamchid Assadi, BSB-Burgundy School of Business, France, – djamchid.assadi@bsb-education.com

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track absorbed tracks T03_09 - Life Design, Entrepreneurial Life Design, Design Y/our Future and T03_19 – Entrepreneurship for transformations of and through the creative industries. The new track was renamed T03_12 Exploring new horizons in entrepreneurship: Platform economy, creative industries and life design. 

T03_13 - Saudi Arabia Matters: Cases from a Transforming Knowledge Economy

Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing an important time, which is the post Vision 2030 economic transformation into a diversified, knowledge economy. Since then, the country has achieved several world records, like the world’s top improver in competitiveness and ease of doing business, world’s top in macroeconomic stability, 1st on ESCWA’s Government Electronic and Mobile Services Maturity Index (GEMS), 2nd most competitive & 1st safest among the G20 countries, world’s largest green initiative, and others. This sets ground for interesting academic research, cases, stories and a wide range of implications worth sharing at EURAM 2024.

For more information contact: Bassem Nasri, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University – bnasri@pmu.edu.sa

T03_14 - Academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer processes

Universities are key agents in the promotion of entrepreneurship. The “third mission” emphasizes their role in fostering the economic and social development. This is based on the alignment of teaching and research with a structure related to the real economic world and a dynamic combination of the traditional academic mission with entrepreneurial vocation. Over time, the issue has garnered increasing attention of authors, who have looked at it through diverse research perspectives and with distinct research aims. This proposal invites researchers to investigate new relationships among key constructs and contribute to theory by means of exploratory and explanatory methodological approaches.

For more information contact: Laura Castaldi, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli – laura.castaldi@unicampania.it

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track absorbed tracks T03_11 - Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education and Educators and T03_18 –  The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.

T03_16 - Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystem

While there is a growing consensus regarding the importance of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in both theory and practice, our understanding of the dynamics and processes that promote entrepreneurship and innovation within complex spatial structures and specific contexts remains limited. This knowledge gap gives rise to an promosing discussion that encompasses various perspectives, such as multi-level and multi-stakeholder approaches, microfoundations, industry-led ecosystems, processes, legitimacy, governance, and comparative studies across different countries, regions, and cities.

For more information contact: Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School – c.theodoraki@tbs-education.fr

T03_17 - Everyday Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

While This track aims to highlight the diversity of entrepreneurial activities by inviting manuscripts that address “everyday entrepreneurship,” which Welter et al. (2017) argue encompasses 99% of entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the particularities of developing countries shape and are shaped by “everyday entrepreneuship” such as informal entrepreneurship (Nichter & Goldmark, 2009; Williams, 2014), entrepreneurship in adversity and extreme conditions (Baker & Nelson, 2005), ethnic entrepreneurship, and rural entrepreneurship. Advancing knowledge in this area would demonstrate the richness of entrepreneurship studies across diverse contexts, which will help to develop theories and practices tailored to developing countries.

For more information contact: Bisrat Misganaw, NEOMA Business School – bisrat.misganaw@neoma-bs.fr

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was absorbed by the track GT03_00 - Entrepreneurship General Track.

T03_18 - The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education in Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

While our knowledge on entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems’ structure and dynamics has been improving over the past 20 years, the dynamic nature of economy and societies needs us to constantly look at how entrepreneurship and innovation development processes change or should be changed over time, starting with the ways we foster the emergence of entrepreneurs. For an ecosystem to grow, then, it is crucial to understand how its elements intertwine while we pursue this goal, beginning from the analysis of the contexts where entrepreneurship is experienced and learned, and the processes that influence the birth and growth of an entrepreneur.

For more information contact: Michele Modina, University of Molise – michele.modina@unimol.it

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with track T03_14 - Academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer processes. 

T03_19 - Entrepreneurship for transformations of and through the creative industries

Entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation are strongly intertwined. Various socio-economic transformations (digitization, urbanization, climate change..) trigger innovative practices in the cultural and creative sectors and industries. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are emerging that lead to changes in the value chains of the CCSI. Equally, creativity is considered a key driver for innovation and change. Experimental approaches that involve the arts, culture, heritage, or creativity, seek to play a role in technological, ecological, and spatial transformations as well as organizational and behavioral changes. The track addresses two interconnected themes: Entrepreneurship for transformations of the creative industries, and entrepreneurship for transformations through the creative industries.

For more information contact: Ellen Loots, Erasmus University Rotterdam – loots@eshcc.eur.nl

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was merged with other tracks, giving birth to T03_12 Exploring new horizons in entrepreneurship: Platform economy, creative industries and life design. 

T03_20 - Theoretical building and new frontiers in entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship as autonomous field of study in the huge management arena has grown rapidly in the last decades. Accordingly different entrepreneurship sub-fields have emerged in some cases without not adequately theoretically grounded in the domain they have declared to be part of. This evolutionary process far from coming to an end is still contributing to move forward entrepreneurship’s frontiers. Thus, this track calls for papers that: (1) set the theoretical boundaries of the entrepreneurship as discipline; (2) contribute to entrepreneurship’s frontiers with reflections, theories testing, empirical analysis on different entrepreneurship’s subfields.

For more information contact: Massimiliano Vesci, University of Salerno – mvesci@unisa.it

On the occasion of EURAM conference 2024, this track was absorbed by the track GT03_00 - Entrepreneurship General Track.