Topics will include, but not limited to:

Entrepreneurship & growth

Corporate and strategic entrepreneurship

Universities and entrepreneurship

Spin offs and knowledge transfer

Innovation and Technological entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and regional development

Governmental support for entrepreneurs

Social and community entrepreneurship

Green entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship and gender

Entrepreneurial culture

Entrepreneurial learning and communities of practice

Studies of new businesses and business survival

Entrepreneurship and ethnic minorities

International entrepreneurship

Managing globalisation and international business

Small/family business management, intra/entrepreneurship

Managing business relationships

Managing work place motivation/pressure/stress

Managing learning and improvement

Instilling creativity

Managing supply chains

Developing/leveraging core competencies

Improving the quality of the management

E-management

International businesses management

Internationalisation in family businesses – entrepreneurship focus

Human Resources impacts brought about by internationalisation – European context around ‘passporting.’

Impact of ‘Brexit’ on family businesses involved in export markets: opportunities and challenges.

Multinational family businesses – internationalisation impacts, challenges, strategies and issues.

Governance of multinational family businesses.

Case studies of multinational family businesses focusing on any management aspect, e.g. entrepreneurship (new business development, new product development), strategy