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FIBEA 2007 - Call for Papers: Indigenous Entrepreneurs

Fostering Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship Alliances in the Americas
FIBEA, 2007

Acoma Pueblo - Sky City Resort, New Mexico
November 7 - 9, 2007

Call for Papers: Indigenous Entrepreneurs

Due Date for Submission of Papers is September 15, 2007.

Conference Chair
Dr. Raul Gouvea

• Associate Professor
• Chair of Finance, International, and Management of Technology Department
• Director for the Center for Economic Indigenous Economic Development and Entrepreneurship
• Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico

Theme
Fostering Indigenous Business & Entrepreneurship in the Americas

Who Should Attend?
Academicians, business professionals, government, and NGOs, students, and anyone interested in learning and sharing experiences pertaining to Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Economic Development.

Papers
Papers should focus on the conference main theme and related topics such as financing of Indigenous Entrepreneurship, marketing indigenous products, services, and technologies, indigenous gaming industry, media, entertainment, fashion & design, challenges & opportunities facing indigenous sustainable entrepreneurship, the role of regional, federal and multilateral agencies and NGOs in promoting indigenous entrepreneurship. Case studies on indigenous entrepreneurship in Latin America, Central America, and North America are invited.

Conference papers will be accepted in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Sub-Themes

1. Financing Indigenous Entrepreneurship: developing financial products for indigenous business, investing in indigenous human capital, legal indigenous business issues, financing indigenous business ventures strategies, sovereign immunity in indigenous commercial transactions
2. Marketing Indigenous Products, Services, and Technologies: indigenous ecotourism strategies, indigenous trademarks and patents, channels of distribution for indigenous products, services, and technologies, exporting strategies, e-commerce and indigenous entrepreneurship.
3. Indigenous Gaming, Media, Entertainment, Fashion, and Design: Developing indigenous gaming business, media, the indigenous entertainment industry, indigenous fashion & design industry.
4. Challenges & Opportunities Facing Indigenous Sustainable Entrepreneurship: culture, traditional values, ethics and entrepreneurship; indigenous women and entrepreneurship, mining, forestry, fishing & hunting, environmentally friendly technologies.
5. The Role of Regional, Federal, NGOs, and Multilateral Agencies in Promoting Indigenous Entrepreneurship: The role of state agencies, the role of federal agencies, the role of the World Bank, IFC, ILO, United Nations, and the role of NGOs.
6. Fostering Indigenous Entrepreneurship - A Case Study Perspective: Case studies on indigenous entrepreneurship from North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Student Track
Graduate students are also encouraged to submit papers and case studies to the student track. Only papers written by students will be considered.

Proceedings
A conference proceedings will be published containing all papers presented at the meeting. The proceedings will be distributed at the conference.

Discussants, Paper Reviewers, and Session Chairs
If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, discussant, or Session Chair, please e-mail your interest to fibea@mgt.unm.edu.

Paper Submission Guidelines

A complete copy of the paper must be received by September 15, 2007.

1. Submissions must be original. The author (s) must certify that the paper (s) has not been published elsewhere.
2. Authors and/or co-authors must register for and attend the meeting in order to have the paper included in the proceedings.
3. Papers should not exceed 25 pages, double spaced, including references, tables, and figures. Times New Roman characters, 12-point font-size, and double spaced. Microsoft Word.
4. Papers will be blind refereed.
5. There will be a best paper award.
6. All submissions should be sent, preferably via e-mail to Jaye Francis, Conference Coordinator.

Paper Submission
A complete copy of the paper must be received by September 15, 2007.
Email: fibea@mgt.unm.edu
Fax: (505) 277-7108
Post: FIBEA 2007
c/o Jaye Francis, Conference Coordinator
MSC05 3090, 1924 Las Lomas NE
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001