ASBE
GBRS
Who: The Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship What: ASBE/EEP Joint Conference
GBFRC
IEDC
Where: Orland, FL, USA Deadline: July 1, 2015
Who: University of Riverside
When: May 22-23, 2015
What: 2015 Spring Global Business
Where: Los Angeles, CA
Research Symposium
ICTBE
When: September 23-25, 2015
Deadline: May 15, 2015
Who: ICTBE’15
When: May 29-30, 2015
What: Intl. Conference on Trends in Business and Economics
Where: London, UK
Who: Australia Conference
When: May 25-27, 2015
What: 4th Global Business and Finance Research Conference
Where: Melbourne, Australia
Who: 2015 IEDC
Where: Madison, WI, USA
Deadline: April 30, 2015
Deadline: May 15, 2015
What: IEDC Economic Future Forum Deadline: April 29, 2015 When: June 9-10, 2015
NBES
Who: NBES
When: March 9-12, 2016
What: 17th Annual NBES Conference
Where: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Deadline: July 1st, 2015
Who: Middlesex University Dubai
ERPBSS
What: 3rd International Conference When: November 24-26, 2015
AIIC
Who: Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
What: AIIC 2015
ABD
AABRI
ICKM
UNM
Where: Azores Islands, Portugal Deadline: June 25, 2015
What: 17th Annual Academy of Business Disciplines Conf.
Where: Ft. Meyers Beach
Who: Academic and Business Research Institute
When: October 15-17, 2015
Deadline: June 15, 2015
Where: Las Vegas, NV What: AABRI International ConferDeadline: June 6, 2015 ence
Who: ICKM 2015
When: November 4-6 2015
What: 11th International Confer-
Where: Osaka, Japan Deadline: May 21, 2015
Who: USABE
When: Spring 2016
What: Journal of Ethics & Entrepreneurship
Where: Online
Who: UNM Mentoring Conference 2015
When: October 20-23, 2015
What: 8th Annual Mentoring Conference
What: 2015 Prague Intl. Academic Conference
JSMQ
When: July 8-11, 2015
When: November 12-14, 2015
Who: Global Academic Institute
IIAC
Deadline: June 1, 2015
Who: ABD Conference
ence on Knowledge Management
JEE
Where: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Deadline: June 1, 2015
Where: Albuquerque, NM Deadline: May 15, 2015 When: September 6-9, 2015 Where: Prague, Czech Republic Deadline: August 7, 2015
Who: Strategic Management Quar- When: June 30, 2015 terly Where: Online What: JSMQ Vol. 3, No. 2 Deadline: May 15, 2015
SBANC
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IBC
The International Business Conference of 2015 will be from June 1314, 2015 . The conference is located at Henley Business School. Early registration and call for papers has ended but you may register until June 13th, 2015.
ICEHM
The International Centre of Economics, Humanities and Management is having an International Conference on Economics and Management Studies this June 24th-25th. It will be in Kathmandu, Nepal, and the deadline for Paper submissions is May 5th, 2015.
CCIQ
SGBRS
ESU
The 2105 CCIQ Small Business Expo is being held May 23rd through May 24th, 2015, at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The University of Riverside is holding the 2015 Spring Global Business Research Symposium on May 22-23, 2015 in Los Angeles, CA. The final paper submission deadline is May 15, 2015.
The 2015 European Summer University in Entrepreneurship: Conference and Researcher Development Program is announcing it’s call for papers. The conference is from August 16-22, 2015. The abstract deadline is April 10th and the deadline for full papers is July 1, 2015.
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“An entrepreneur is an individual who starts his/her own business.” Some Entrepreneurship Definitions The meaning of entrepreneurship is vague, and looking for a common definition does not bring much clarity. The following list is just a sample of the many definitions that have been proposed.
Webster’s Dictionary defines the entrepreneur as the one who organizes, manages and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which is a French word meaning ‘one who undertakes an endeavor’. Entrepreneurs assemble resources, including innovations, finance and business acumen, in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods.
Entrepreneurship is the art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business; the quality of being an entrepreneur.
An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. The term was originally borrowed from the French and first used in this way by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon.
An entrepreneur is someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it.
Entrepreneurship is one special form of human capital that is important in an economic setting (often thought of as the fourth factor of production). Entrepreneurial abilities are needed to improve what we have and to create new goods and services.
An entrepreneur is a risk-taker in the business world. Usually applied to a person who sets themselves up as a business owner using their own money or borrowed money.
An entrepreneur is an individual or group of individuals who take on the risk of starting a venture.
An entrepreneur is a person who engages in the process of entrepreneurship.
An entrepreneur is someone who is willing to assume the responsibility, risk and rewards of starting and operating a business.
An entrepreneur is a person who is innovative and takes the risk of bringing the other factors of production together in a business concern to try and satisfy the needs and wants of a particular segment of a market at a profit.
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“An entrepreneur is an individual who starts his/her own business.” Some Entrepreneurship Definitions Continued... An entrepreneur is a person who is innovative and takes the risk of bringing the other factors of production together in a business concern to try and satisfy the needs and wants of a particular segment of a market at a profit. An entrepreneur is an individual who starts his/her own business. An entrepreneur is a dare-devil who also carries primary responsibility for operating a venture. Entrepreneur is a French word that translates roughly as ‘enterpriser’. In capitalism, he or she is a speculator who invests capital in stocks, land and machinery, as well as the exploitation of wage labour, in the pursuit of profits. Of these fourteen definitions, six can be interpreted as general management, six can be interpreted as specifically starting a new business, and two definitions are somewhat unclear. Does this lack of consistency between definitions create a problem, or is it purely of semantic interest? An individual who starts his or her own business (as in one of the definitions) and maintains it as a sole trader type organization is facing an entirely different situation compared to a small business manger with responsibility for employees, for loans to be repaid and with the need to meet budget. To refer to the entrepreneur and the small business manager as one and the same person is not only misleading but basically wrong. Risk-taking is inherent in all business ventures, but it means different things to the entrepreneur only responsible for him-or herself, with either no or limited commitments to customers and market. The small business manager is responsible for employees but also to customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. The same applies to the entrepreneur albeit on a different scale, since the number of stakeholders can be assumed to be lower compared to a small firm with far-reaching commitments. While many small businesses are constantly struggling to survive financially in harsh competitive climates, the entrepreneur who recently started a new business will lose the start-up capital if it fails, but this will have limited effect on other stakeholders.
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Linking Farm Entrepreneurs’ Demographics to Multifunctional Agriculture (MFA) Strategy: Evidences from New England Farm Survey This paper was written by Kathleen Liang of the University of Vermont and Paul Dunn from the University of Louisiana.
Results of a pioneering effort to explore implications of farmers’ demographics and multifunctional agriculture (MFA) using a census survey in New England region show most farmers are over 35, male, and well-educated. Over one-half of survey respondents choose MFA as a strategy to diversify farm activities and income, although gross farm income does not have a significance influence on MFA. Most of the MFA farmers have smaller operating acreage, are younger generation, and have higher education level. Agricultural policies need to offer heterogeneous training and support to meet the needs of farm families to achieve the highest satisfaction and prosperity.
Executive Director Dr. Don B. Bradley III
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The Small Business Advancement National has recently made immense changes to the layout of its website, SBAER.UCA.EDU, as well as its Newsletter. We welcome constructive criticism, comments, and of course, all questions throughout this transition.
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Email: SBANC@UCA.EDU Phone: 1 (501) 450-5300 Small Business Institute 2015 Proceedings Kathleen Liang and Paul Dunn Page 141
Small Business Management In Cross-Cultural Environments Per Lind ROUTLEDGE Pages 80-81
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