The 27th McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference on Resilience of International Entrepreneurship in times of turbulence
Save the date for the next McGill International Entrepreneurship conference!
It will take place at August 15-17, 2024, at the LUT University in Lappeenranta, Finland. The conference theme is “International entrepreneurship in a world driven by megatrends of digitalization and sustainability”.
Fellow ie-Scholars, Sami Saarenketo, Olli Kuivalainen and Maria Uzhegova will chair the conference.
More information can be found here.
Linnaeus University (LNU) School of Business & Economics look forward welcoming participants to småland (the small countries) in southeastern Sweden. Linnaeus university is a modern, international university carrying a legacy - the spirit of “smålandsk” entrepreneurship exemplified by Carl von Linné (1707 – 1778) an academic entrepreneur within biology who invented the binomial nomenclature or Ingvar Kamprad (1926-2018) a local business entrepreneur who founded IKEA – a very early International Entrepreneur, hence it is only natural for an entrepreneurial university (LNU) to host a conference like the McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference (MIE).
International entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial international smaller firms have dominated the growth of the global economy under the labels of International New Ventures, Born Global, International Start-ups or Rapidly Internationalizing Enterprises that compete internationally from inception or soon thereafter. They deploy innovative and competitive strategies to achieve growth at global markets; through interactions with global factories, they influence the dynamics of competition, even in times of de-globalization. During global crises like COVID they have swiftly adapted new forms of entrepreneurial internationalization, turning them into Digitized Born Globals or International Digi-preneurs. The McGill international Entrepreneurship (MIE) conference series has traditionally examined the frontier issues related to entrepreneurial internationalization and internationalization of the small and medium sized enterprise (iSMEs).
Following the tradition established by the previous conferences since 1998, this conference aims to bring together leading-edge views of academic scholars, insightful practitioners, and policy makers with interests in the fields of international entrepreneurship, internationalization, and growth of SMEs to examine the resilience and consequent changes, and the dominant pattern(s) of emerging developments in international entrepreneurship. In previous plenary sessions, prominent scholars, including Hamid Etemad, Tamer Cavusgil, Nicole Coviello Marian Jones, Gary Knight, Tage Koed Madsen, Patricia McDougall, Rod McNaughton, Nina Nummela, Benjamin Oviatt, Olli Kuivalainen, Per Servais, and Antonella Zucchella, among many others, presented provocative ideas in moving research frontiers forward. The 2023 conference is organized by Linnaeus University, School of Business & Economics and the knowledge platform “GlobalMind”.
Keynote speakers
Professor Anders Pehrsson
Carries out research on and teaches about the international strategies of different companies. In his research, he studies, for instance, strategic driving forces behind successful establishments on export markets like Britain, Germany, the US, and Eastern Europe. Studies have been carried out on a number of companies in many different lines of business, including vehicle and telecommunication. The research leads to the development of models and methods that companies can use to increase their international competitiveness. Since 2014, Anders Pehrsson has been the editor of the scientific journal European Business Review.
Professor Anders Pehrsson will give a brief on his new book, Digital Business Strategy, Content, Context and Cases.
Professor Antonella Zucchella
Obtained a PhD in management at Bocconi University, Milan. She's been Associate Professor at Insubria University, Varese, Italy and then Full Professor at Pavia University since 2001. She's also been PhD programme coordinator and Head of Business Economics Department at Pavia University. She is also Senior Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Her Research interests is International business, International entrepreneurship, International marketing, Sustainable firms and internationalization, Small firms internationalisation strategies, Local clusters and internationalisation of local systems. Professor Zucchella will address her latest article; International entrepreneurship and the internationalization phenomenon: taking stock, looking ahead.
Professor Mika Gabrielsson
D.Sc. Mika Gabrielsson, Vice Rector Hanken School of Ecocomics, is a professor of international business and sales management (IBS) at the University of Eastern Finland. In his present capacity he heads the IBS program and the Doctorate Program in Business. Prior to this position he served for ten years as professor at Aalto university, where he now is an adjunct professor. Also, he serves at Lappeenranta University of Technology as an adjunct professor. Furthermore, he is affiliated as a visiting professor of human resource management and organizational strategy at University of Portsmouth, UK. He has a long history of studying the internationalization of firms and their sales strategies. He has published about 200 articles in refereed international journals or conference proceedings, and many of them have been included as chapters in International Business books.
Professor Mika Gabrielsson will address his article; “Characteristics of digital artifacts in international endeavors of digital‐based international new ventures”
Professor Emilia Rovira Nordman
Is a researcher and the Head of Subject at Mälardalen university. Her research interests include: (1) the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (2) the interaction, networks and knowledge development of firms. In 2009, Emilia Rovira Nordman received her Ph. D. in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics. In 2014 she became Docent at the same school. Emilia Rovira Nordman teaches in the areas of marketing, international marketing, and research methodology. Professor Nordman is a specialist on technology new ventures and will address her article; Digitalization and International Online Sales: Antecedents of Purchase Intent.
Professor Tuija Mainela
Is a Professor of International Business at the University of Oulu, Finland. She obtained her Ph.D. at University of Vaasa and her research interests include international entrepreneurship and internationalization of firms, dynamics of business networks and interpersonal relationships, and organizational change processes. She has several important publications on International Business Opportunities. Presently she leads a research project focused on innovation and change in health care sector. I have published in international scholarly journals, such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of World Business, Human Relations, International Journal of Management Reviews, Industrial Marketing Management, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Journal of International Entrepreneurship, and have contributed to several books as an author of chapters. Professor Mainela is responsible for several KATJA Ph.D. courses and will give feedback to the doctorial students at the conference.
Sustainable event
The 27th Mcgill International Enrepreneurship Conference on Resilience of international Entrepreneurship in times of turbulence is a sustainability-assured meeting in accordance with Linnaeus University’s guidelines for sustainable events. These guidelines are linked to the 17 global goals in Agenda 2030 and comprise the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social, and the environmental.
Learn more about Linnaeus University´s sustainable events here.