Call for Abstracts: 9th ANNUAL NYU-STERN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

[Rüdiger Hahn]

9th ANNUAL NYU-STERN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Academic conference: November 7 & 8, 2012

Practitioner conference: November 9 & 10, 2012

In collaboration with the Foundation for Social Change and the United Nations

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The annual NYU-Stern Conference on Social Entrepreneurship is dedicated to the ongoing 

development of theory and research on social entrepreneurship and its impact on

global communities. The aim of the two-day academic conference is to bring together

scholars in social entrepreneurship to discuss emerging concepts and themes in social

entrepreneurship research. Conceptual papers, research papers presenting quantitative

and/or qualitative data are welcome, as well as case studies and practitioner contributions.

Conference themes

Here are several research suggestions that may be interesting and highly provocative,

although abstracts that address other relevant and timely themes of social entrepreneurship

but are not covered below are also welcome:

* Social entrepreneurship process involving opportunity recognition and evaluation

* Organizational forms of social enterprises

* Challenges of scaling and measuring social impact

* Emerging themes in social entrepreneurship education

* Cross-cultural comparative studies in social entrepreneurship

* Research challenges in social entrepreneurship

Practitioner conference

As an added feature this year, participants will have the opportunity to attend

the practitioner conference organized in partnership with the Foundation for Social

Change and the United Nations: NYU-Stern will host the annual Global Conference for Social

Change on Friday November 9th, and the Women of Change World Summit on Saturday

November 10th.

Abstract Submission and Review Process

Authors who wish to present their papers at the academic conference should submit electronically

a three-page abstract (double-spaced, Times New Roman font, size 12) by Friday, August

24th, 2012 to the conference Co-Directors, Dr. Jill Kickul, Director of the NYU-Stern

Program in Social Entrepreneurship, jki...@stern.nyu.edu, and Sophie Bacq, sb...@stern.nyu.edu.

Important Dates:

Three-Page Abstract Submission Deadline - August 24th, 2012

Notification of Acceptance - September 8th, 2012

Full Paper Due - October 22nd, 2012