Track Chair:
Dr Owais Anwar Golra, NUST Business School, ([email protected])
Description: The world has witnessed a major global crisis over the past three decades, including the Asian financial crisis, the global financial crisis, and the covid-19 crisis. Whilst these crises have severely affected the world economy, they have had a catastrophic impact on entrepreneurial activity and small business performance. On the one hand, scholars argue that
small businesses have restricted access to critical resources (such as finance, material assets, consumables); therefore, it is particularly challenging for such businesses to deal with the magnitude of changes occurring in the business environment – e.g. massive fluctuation in material prices, the interruption of supply chains or infrastructure, reduced business activity,
staffing issues, running out of cash reserves and temporary business closures. However, on the other hand, recent empirical work in entrepreneurship contends that due to a higher level of
organizational resilience and dynamic capabilities, small businesses are better at adapting to changing environments than their counterparts. Moreover, these firms are in a better position to exploit opportunities associated with an economic crisis. Relevant topics for this track includes,
but not limited to, entrepreneurship and crisis management, entrepreneurs’ persistence in crises situations, financial issues in entrepreneurship, launching and leading an entrepreneurial ventures, encouraging creativity and innovation in entrepreneurial firms, entrepreneurial resilience, sustainable entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial practices for sustainability, sustainable business models, start-up firms, new venture creation, entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurial networks, high-growth entrepreneurship, regional entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and the
emerging economy.
Keywords:
Entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial resilience, sustainable entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial practices for sustainability, sustainable business models, start-up firms, new venture creation, entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurial networks, high-growth entrepreneurship, regional entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and the emerging economy, entrepreneurial leadership.
Production and Operations Management
Digitalization, Disruption, and Innovation
Strategy, Leadership and Organization
International Business and Management
Work and Organizational Psychology
Marketing and Hospitality Management
Labour, Globalization and Economic Development
Peace, Conflict Management and Economic Development
Green Energy and Sustainable Finance
Conference track: Sustainability Management Challenges and Opportunities in a Changed World: Perspectives from Emerging Economies