------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The 18th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference at UAEU
Venue: College of Information Technology (CIT: Male Side), Al Ain
Program
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm
01:00 pm – 04:00 pm
8:00 am – 8:45 am
8:45 am – 8:55 am
8:55 am – 11:00 am
Saturday 28th February 2015
Lunch: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
Doctoral Consortium
Sunday 1st March 2015
Light Breakfast: Ground Floor of CIT building, Male side
Welcome and Opening Remarks: CBE Dean, Prof. Geralyn Franklin, Auditorium(G020)
Key Notes Speeches
Professor Gary Knight , Willamette University, USA
The Present and Future of Research on Born Global Firms
Professor Sören Kock, Swedish School of Economics, Finland
Coopetition and International Entrepreneurship
Professor Hamid Etemad, McGill University, Canada
International Entrepreneurship in the Collaborative Economy and Web 2.0 Era
Dr. Khalid M. Alkhazraji, AlKawthar Investment LLC, UAE
The Past and the Future Role of Entrepreneurs in the GCC Economy
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
11:00 am – 11:15 am
11:15 am – 12:45 am
Room 1027
Session 1A: Network Capabilities in
International Entrepreneurship Chair: Prof. Taoufik
Room 1028
Session 1B: International Entrepreneurship
and Micro-Multinationals Firms (Chair: Dr. Younes
Zoubeidi)
Hamdouch)
1. Competition and collaboration in the
New Zealand wine sector: Domestic and
international entrepreneurship
1. Why do Chinese born globals exit foreign
markets? Survey evidence
Tiia Vissak and Xiaotian Zhang
David Crick and James Crick
2. Impact of international strategic alliance
capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship
on the relationship between public goals
and value creation: some reflections on
the UAE
Saba Khalid, Awais Tipu Syed and Abu Elias Sarker
3. Creative Industries and the Internetbased Technologies and Platform: The
Case-study of Quebec Winter Carnival
2. The role of external endowments on the
international growth of born global firms
Viveca Sasi, Lauri Korkealaakso and Pia Arenius
3. An institutional approach to
entrepreneurial internationalization:
qualitative meta-synthesis
Igor Laine and Olli Kuivalainen
Hamid Etemad and Hamed Motaghi
12:45 pm – 01:30 pm
01:30 pm – 03:00 pm
Lunch: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
Session 2A: The Institutional and Political
Environment of International
Entrepreneurship Chair: Peter B Olufemi Oyelere)
1. Doing good and doing well? - On the
relationship between
Internationalization and Social
Responsibility
Arild AspelundJ Lise Fjell and Silje Erdal Rodland
2. Explaining the degree and scope of
internationalization of Russian new
ventures
Irina MihailovaJ Igor Laine and Galina Shirokova
3. Community Based Organizations in
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Session 2B: Knowledge Management and
International Entrepreneurship Chair: Dr. Habib
Mahama)
1. SME internationalisation knowledge
acquisition: A developing economy
perspective
Kais MejriJ ]ason Alexander MacVaugh and Dimitrios Tsagdis
2. The Role of Science and Technology
Diplomacy in Internalization of
Knowledge Based SMEs in Developing
Countries
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh and Mehdi Hajari
rural water supply: Type of
Institutional legitimacy and Strategy
of Gaining Legitimacy
Sunidha Senaratne and John Meewella
3. Piggybacking into international markets.
The challenge for young and small
Knowledge-intensive business service
firms.
Tage Koed Madsen, Stephen Mark Rosenbaum and Henrik Johanning
Coffee Break: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
03:00 pm – 03:15 pm
03:15 pm – 05:15 pm
Session 3A: Networked Economy and
International Entrepreneurship Chair: Dr.
Muhammad Iftikhar)
1. Domestic and international networking
of new ventures
Tamara Galkina
Session 3B: International Entrepreneurship
in Health Care Sector Chair: Dr. John Meewella)
1. Progress and Challenges in the
Development of Bioenergy Ventures in
Indonesia
Amadeus Pribowo and John Meewella
2. Kickstarting Entrepreneurship in the
Philippines: Exploring the Careers of
Successful Filipina Entrepreneurs
Pamela Lirio, Dynah Basuil Tobias and Milagros Lagrosa
3. Reaching the hearts of future
entrepreneurs: a worldwide literature
review and call for research
Anne van Ewijk
4. Click & clock innovators: novel approach
to promote physician's entrepreneurs
Muhammad Iftikhar and Saima Masood
2. Probiotics Product Development in
International Enterpreneurial Opportunity
Richard Sutejo, Amadeus Pribowo and John Meewella
3. Environmental enteropathy, fortified
micronutrient supplementary foods and
stunting among young children in Jakarta
Siti Muslimatun, Dias R Sutiono, Ervina and John Meewella
4. Community Based Organizations in rural
water supply: Interrelationship of social
entrepreneurship and institutional
legitimacy
Sunidha Senaratne and John Meewella
07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
8:00 am – 8:45 am
8:45 am – 10:45 am
Gala Dinner (Ayla Hotel, Town Centre)
Monday 2nd March 2015
Light Breakfast: Ground Floor of CIT building, Male side
Parallel Sessions: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
Room 1027
Session 4A: Entrepreneurship and
Regional Issues Chair: Professor Sören Kock)
1. Enabling entrepreneurship
environments: A correlational study of
entrepreneurial intentions among
Emirati Business students
Grace Thomson and Wasif Minhas
2. Entrepreneurship: A Corridor for
Developing an Emirati Skilled
Workforce
Khaled Al Kaabi and Maqsood Sandhu
Room 1028
Session 4B: International Entrepreneurship in
Emerging Economies Chair: Professor Hamid Etemad
1. Drivers, Speed and Degree of
Internationalization: Empirical Evidence
from an Emerging Market
Santhosh Channappa and Bala Subrahmanya Mungila Hillemane
2. The role of Organization's Internal
Environment in International
Entrepreneurial Orientation (Case Study:
Automotive Industry in Iran)
Maryam Khaleghy Baygy and Amir Reza Barjasteh Barjasteh
3. Cross-National imitation and innovation
in new entrepreneurial ventures: lessons
from sks microfinance
3. The UNES-preneurship Model: A
Frontiers in International
4. The investigation and identification of
key roles in crowdfunding process in
social entrepreneurial organizations
4. An entrepreneurial approach to embryonic
capability development: the case of early
and rapidly internationalising south African
firms
]oshua Ault and Andrew Spicer
Zahra Arasti, Elham Rezagholizadeh and Narges Imanipour
Ayatollah Momayez and Shiva Shaifian
Shingairai Masango
Coffee Break
10:45 am – 11:00 am
11:00 am – 01:00 pm
Session 5A: Women in International
Entrepreneurship & crowdfunding Chair: Osama
D. Sweidan)
1. International Female Entrepreneurs: The
Case of Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey
Leyla Sarfaraz, Sarfraz Mian and Emine Esra Karadeniz
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Session 5B:Innovation and International
Entrepreneurship Chair: Mohammed AlWaqfi)
1. Innovation and Export Activity in SMEs: A
Review of the Empirical Literature
Mohammad J. Azari and Arild Aspelund
2. The theoretical model of International
2. Entrepreneurial Growth : An Empirical
study on ‘Issues & Challenges being faced
by Micro level Women Entrepreneurs in
UAE Region’
Srinivasa Rao
3. Crowdfunding as an effective tool of
finance in the International
Entrepreneurship field'
Diala Kabbara
Corporate Technological Entrepreneurship
(ICTE) in rapid-growth firms
Mohammadreza Meigounpoory and Mohammadsajad Shokouhi Bidhandi
3. Identification of Performance Measures for
Social Entrepreneur Institutions: Case of
the Iranian national commission for
UNESCO
Mostafa Razavi, Reza Mohammadkazemi and Behrad Seyed Zareh
4. Entrepreneurial Knowledge as Exogenous
Influence and Entrepreneurial Intent: A
Theory of Planned Behavior Approach
Saadat Saeed
01:00 pm – 02:00 pm
Closing Session: Open Discussion of Future Directions and Publications
Lunch: 1st Floor of CIT building, Male side
Monday 2nd March 2015
Professional Workshop/ Entrepreneurship Day
CIT building Ground floor, Female side Auditorium
01:00 pm – 02:00 pm
UAEU Students Pitching Competition
We will be having a small pitching competition, where the students will come and pitch their
business ideas and will be given the chance to win gifts from our sponsors
02:00 pm – 05:00 pm
Professional Speakers
Dr.Yehya Al Marzouqi (Director of Tawazun)
Mrs.Farida Al Awadhi(CEO CINMAR)
Dr. Khalid M. Alkhazraji, AlKawthar Investment LLC, UAE
Ahmad Yousuf Al Mulla (Hamburgah)
and more …….
Panel Discussion ( Professional Speakers along with Academic Scholars on the Panel)
07:00 pm – 09:00 pm
Dinner (Ayla Hotel, Bawadi Mall)
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