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Introduction

We are pleased to invite you to the 1st International Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Conference (IEEDC) 2017.

The conference will be held between 16th to 18th November 2017 at the BridgeWays Hotel Conference Center, Century City, Cape Town, South Africa.

IEEDC attracts an interesting combination of academic scholars, practitioners, and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of innovation and entrepreneurship.

The theme for the Conference is: Extending Entrepreneurship Research in New Directions: De-mystifying the Generation Z Entrepreneurs and their Probable Impact on Emerging Economies. The vision is to advance knowledge about “Generation Z”, the generation born after the millennials that is emerging as the next phenomenon for market researchers, cultural observers, and trend forecasters.

Call for paper

Important date

2017-06-30
Abstract submission deadline
2017-09-30
Draft paper submission deadline

Submission Topics

Research tracks include:

  • The nature of Gen Z, including its stereotypes, spatial dynamics and their gendered effects

  • The changing configuration of state-market-civil society relations, including diverse forms of governance, regulation, resistance, and social welfare

  • Different forms and disruptive influences of Gen Z including global civil society, social movements, migration, and climate change

  • Global value chains and production networks, industrial clusters and other organizational forms with new implications for economic, social, and environmental upgrading in the new era of Gen Z

  • How socio-economic institutions and global political economy shapes, and is shaped by Gen Z

  • Industrial structure, nature of competition and performance within and across national/regional economies in the new era of Gen Z

  • Strategic implications for the informal sector in the digital era of Gen Z

  • Gen Z and the implications for HR, marketing and brand positioning

  • The forms, processes and consequences of financialization in the new era of Gen Z

  • Media, Design and Architecture for Gen Z

  • Building an Entrepreneurial Engineering Ecosystem for Future Generations

  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Socialist Market Economy

  • The Their Emerging Enterprises of Gen Z

  • Looking to the Future and Marketing to Gen Z

  • The Next Great Entrepreneurship Leaders

  • Why Generation Z Could Completely Disrupt Your Business

  • Marketing to both millennials and Generation Z

  • Rethinking Entrepreneurship

    • Defining characteristics of Gen Z’s.

    • Creating retail strategies for Gen Z.

    • The impact Order Management System on retail in the era of Gen Z.

    • Gen Z: Pragmatic & Entrepreneurial

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Important Date
  • Conference Date

    Nov 16

    2017

    to

    Nov 18

    2017

  • Jun 30 2017

    Abstract Submission Deadline

  • Sep 30 2017

    Draft paper submission deadline

  • Nov 18 2017

    Registration deadline