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Session: 1.4.1 - Special Session
Entrepreneurship and Policy: Insights from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 14:30-15:45
Chair: Donna Kelley, GEM USA Team Leader; Babson College
Discussant: Jose Ernesto Amoros, GEM Chile Team Leader; Universidad del Desarollo
Introduction to Developing Economies
Silvia Torres Carbonell, GEM Argentina Team Leader; IAE Business School
Latin America Region
Leonardo Veiga, GEM Uruguay Team Leader; Universidad de Montevideo
BRICS Countries
Mike Herrington, GEM South Africa Team Leader; University of Cape Town
Eastern Europe Region
Slavica Singer, GEM Croatia Team Leader; J.J. Strossmayer University
Next 11 Countries
Roland Xavier, GEM Malaysia Team Leader; Universiti Tun Abdul Razak
With the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, academics have the ability to examine this policy/entrepreneurship
relationship across multiple economies. In 2011, its 13th year, GEM surveyed 54 economies around the world,
including 24 at the middle stage of development. This session will explore the frequency and nature of
entrepreneurship in four developing regions: Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. GEM
team leaders from these regions will participate in a panel discussion about the nature of entrepreneurship in
these regions and some key areas for research and entrepreneurship and the conditions that may impact this
activity in the developing world.
The session will open with an introduction to entrepreneurship in the developing economies and why these
regions are unique as a basis for entrepreneurship research. This will be followed by a brief presentation by
each of the panelists on the environment for entrepreneurship in their regions and implications for policy and
academic research. The discussant will make some key observations about research using GEM data and
opportunities for future research studies in developing economies. The audience will then be asked to join the
discussion. (For more information, please contact: Donna Kelley, GEM USA Team Leader; Babson College, USA:
dkelley@babson.edu)
Session: 1.4.2 - Panel
Track: 9 - Cross-cultural Management and HRM
Diversity, East and West: A Profit and Non-Profit Perspective of Women in International
Business
Presented On: July 1, 2012 - 14:30-15:45
Chair: Gabriele Suder, SKEMA Business School and ANUCES Fellow
Co-Chair: Janet Y. Murray, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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