CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISES: Management - Marketing - Economic Aspects
10-13 AUGUST 2009, ATHENS, GREECE

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 6th International Conference on SME, 10-13 of August 2009 in Athens, Greece. Papers (in English only) from all areas of Business, Economics, Management, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, MIS and Law are welcome. Special sessions will be devoted to education and small business, small business policy, family business, entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, creativity, regulation and legislation. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. In addition a number of events are organized at extra costs: a Greek night of entertainment, a dinner, a half-day tour to archaeological site in the Prefecture of Attica and a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

If you think that you can contribute, please send your abstract (no more than 300 words) via email only atiner@atiner.gr before 19th of January 2009. Please submit to: Dr. Cleopatra Veloutsou, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow and Head, Marketing Research Unit, ATINER. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name(s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. The Conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/SME.htm

If you want to chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr Director, ATINER.