NEWS The conference Transitional green entrepreneurs: Re-thinking ecopreneurship for the 21st century welcomes scholars across all diciplines to submit theoretically innovative and empirically strong papers concerning ecopreneurship. Papers in areas of transport, clothing, housing, renewables, food, and health are of special interest. Submissions due January 31st, 2014.
Today’s environmental and economic debate places great emphasis on the need to direct society’s consumption and production patterns toward sustainability. In response to this challenge, high expectations have been placed on various forms of green, environmental or sustainable entrepreneurship, and so-called ecopreneurs, whose business models are guided by a vision to make a positive difference regarding environmental problems. In this symposium organized by Umeå University we will scrutinize the possibilities of transitional green entrepreneur’s and map possible paths ahead. The purpose is to advance ecopreneurship research by sharing where theory and practice is heading, and reflect upon the history of these developments.
Robert Allen Isaak, Professor of International Management at Pace University in New York.
Anne de Bruin, Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance at Massey University, New Zealand.
Leah Temper, Researcher and coordinator of EJOLT which is a large EU project bringing science and society together to catalogue ecological distribution conflicts and confront environmental injustice.
Torbjörn Lahti, planner and economist, is the founder of the Swedish eco-municipality movement, and has worked with over 100 municipalities in providing ecomunicipality education and assistance.
Sofia Jannok, singer and musician with a great dedication to issues concerning Sami rights.
More information at the Conference website
Empirical, theoretical and conceptual papers are invited from scholars across all disciplines. We invite our participants to explore, but not be limited to, the following themes:
Extended deadline 31 January 2014
Submit an extended abstract of 1500-2000 words as Word document including references to relevant theory, research methodology, findings and conclusions before January 31st 2014 to Martin Hultman.
On your extended abstract please also include title, authors and contact details. The abstract should be accompanied with a short CV and a presentation of your current research.
All accepted papers will be discussed at length at the symposium. Full papers of no more than 6000 words should be sent by 1 April 2014. All accepted papers will have the chance of being included in a Special Issue in Small Enterprise Research.
Martin HultmanResearcher, Umeå UniversityTelephone +46 90 786 54 59
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