The Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship enjoyed great success at the annual Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference, with two 'best paper in track' awards and an overall Best Conference Paper award.
Best Conference Paper award went to Martin Gannon, Professor Eleanor Shaw, and Dr Niall MacKenzie for their paper 'Get back? Capital theory, altruism and extending the spectrum of business philanthropy'.
ISBE's annual conference has over 400 attendees from more than 40 countries, with over 250 presentations of the highest quality new entrepreneurial research on a diverse range of topics along with high profile keynote speakers, stimulating panel debates and a number of specialist workshops.
Strathclyde Business School's Hunter Centre was nominated in seven categories overall at the conference which was held November 11-12 in Glasgow:
Mechanisms of Organizational Sponsorship & New Venture Survival in Family & Non-Family Firms (Steve Gaklis, Jonathan Levie)
Stimulating Creativity: The key to developing novel ideas (Tobias Pret, Eleanor Shaw, Sara Carter)
Families in business, trust and the role of professional advisers (Niall MacKenzie, Alistair Beckett, Jillian Gordon)
Towards Understanding Informal Investors: Individual Factors Within Local Communities in England across the Macroeconomic Cycle (Ekaterina Murzacheva, Jonathan Levie)
Is ambition the path to success? Gender effects in a longitudinal study of SMEs (Jonathan Levie, Sara Carter, Samuel Mwara)
Ambition and realised growth in UK SMEs: A longitudinal study (Jonathan Levie, Andrew Graves)
Get back? Capital theory, altruism and extending the spectrum of business philanthropy (Martin Gannon, Niall MacKenzie, Eleanor Shaw)
More information on ISBE and the conference is availablehere