CALL FOR PAPERS
Geographies of Entrepreneurship in Local and Global Economies: Contexts, Practices, and Processes CFP: 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) NY, Feb 24-28 Abstracts due: September 28, 2010 Organizers: Ben Spigel (University of Toronto) and Hyejin Yoon (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Entrepreneurship is one of the most important sources of economic resilience, growth, and innovation. Across the spectrum of entrepreneurship studies, researchers are realizing the importance of local context and geography in the entrepreneurship process. These contexts create the environment within which entrepreneurs and other actors carry out the actions that underlie firm formation, growth, and change. This session will explore the local, regional, national and global geographies of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs in both the developed and developing world. Potential topics in this session include: * Conceptual frameworks of geographies of entrepreneurship * Socio-economic contexts of local entrepreneurship * Cultural institutions and entrepreneurship * Evolutionary perspectives on spin-off firms * Entrepreneurial financing and venture capital * Gender, geography, and entrepreneurship * Ethnicity and entrepreneurship * Connections between entrepreneurship, small businesses and regional economic development * Entrepreneurship in developing regions or countries * Entrepreneurship in non-entrepreneurial or struggling regions Please send abstracts and PIN to Hyejin Yoon (yo...@uwm.edu) and Ben Spigel (ben.spi...@utoronto.ca) by September 28th, 2011. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. --------------------
