Call for Participation
5th Annual Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference (MERC 2009):
Sustainability and Entrepreneurship
Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM 5:00 PM followed by a Reception
Location: George Mason University Fairfax Campus
4400 University Dr., Fairfax, VA 22030 (Mason Hall)
For several years George Mason University has been organizing an annual
research conference to promote dialogue and collaborative research among
scholars interested in the topic of Entrepreneurship spanning across many
disciplines.
Our conference is open to all researchers in the field of
entrepreneurship, because at MERC we firmly believe that research in
Entrepreneurship is not the domain of any one academic discipline. Hence
researchers from all academic disciplines are invited to participate in
this fifth annual event. You are invited to submit an ABSTRACT OF YOUR
RESEARCH that is conceivably connected with any dimension of
entrepreneurship such as regional development and role of government, risk
taking, engineering and innovation, autonomy and leadership. Examples of
such academic work include, but are not limited, to: creativity and
innovation, new product or process development, examining the
opportunities to change an industry, a community or our society through
entrepreneurial activities, role of information technology in
entrepreneurship.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The fifth annual MERC is pleased to announce that our
keynote speaker is a leading entrepreneur. Many faculty teaching and
researching entrepreneurship may know him as the founder of the firm that
introduced Business Plan Pro software.
Tim Berry
President and Founder of Palo Alto Software (Business PlanPro)
Please submit your fully developed papers/working papers with abstracts
electronically to
Mahesh P. Joshi (
mpjoshi@gmu.edu) or Nacef Mouri (
nmouri@gmu.edu) by March
6th 2009
Please visit MERC website for conference details and registration
http://entrepreneurship.gmu.edu/conference.html
Thanks and regards,
Mahesh P. Joshi
Associate Professor
Global Strategy and Entrepreneurship
School of Management, George Mason University
mpjoshi@gmu.edu
703 993 1761
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