Abstract submission

The deadline for abstract submission was 27th June 2011! A submission of further talks is not possible anymore.

 

In case of any questions please contact
Mr. Stefan Regge
Öffnet ein Fenster zum Versenden der E-Mailabstract(at)conventus.de

Contributions

Abstracts should fulfill the following criteria:

  • Theoretic/conceptual, empirical studies, and experience papers are welcome alike
  • It can hand in one Abstract per Speaker. The number of authors on one abstract should not exceed five persons.
  • Abstracts can be submitted in English and German. Please indicate in your submission whether you prefer holding the presentation in English, German or whether it the language does not matter.
  • Abstracts should not exceed 2,000 words. Please avoid extraordinary formatting as well as characters not included in the ASCII character set.
  • We suggest that the theoretic/conceptual and empirical studies abstracts should use the following outline.
  1. Problem statement (Research contributions and objectives)
  2. Theoretical Basis
  3. Research Design (Methodology)
  4. Analyses and Results
  5. Conclusions (Implications for entrepreneurship-research and -practice)
  • Tables and figures should be submitted in two separate files not exceeding 2 MB. Please refer to the tables and figures in the text as tab.1, tab.2 ... or fig.1, fig.2...

 

Review process

Selection will be based on a "double blind-Review". Each abstract will be sent out to at least two reviewers for comment. A selection committee will decide which abstracts are invited for presentation at G-Forum 2011 based on the comments of the reviewers and programmatic fit.

Selection and evaluation criteria for scientific papers are:

  1. Use / relevance for entrepreneurial research and –practice
  2. Conceptual strength
  3. Methodical approach
  4. Originality / novelty
  5. Intelligibility

 

Selection and assessment criteria for practice-oriented papers are:

  1. Corporate Task / Goal
  2. Procedure steps and task sharing
  3. Methodology used
  4. Results
  5. Transferability to other start - ups and SMEs

 

We expect to inform authors of the acceptance of their abstracts no later than End of August, 2011.