Following some demands, we have decided to postpone the submission deadline from April 15 to April 30, 2023.

Also notice that there will be:

- A best paper award from IJEBR (International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research), and

- A pre-selection for submission to JEC (Journal of Enterprising Communities)

• To respond to public interest, to discuss the current state of knowledge, and to identify pressing issues the field faces
• To enable dialog between PhDs, early-career scholars and senior research fellows in order to focus debate, stimulate cooperation in research, and strengthen the research community

The Paris conference will include some keynotes, but also oral presentations by graduate students and scholars (early-career or more experienced), and paper development sessions.

The keynotes will survey the field they address. Some interactive paper sessions will be arranged that enable discussions.

Confirmed keynotes:

- Ivan Light (UCLA): Migrant entrepreneurship: History of Theory

- Leo-Paul Dana (Dalhousie U.): Return to the Azores

- Maria Elo (U. of Southern Denmark)

- Calin Gurau (Montpellier BS): The rise of transnational migrant entrepreneurship: A systemic approach;

- Orly Meron (Bar-Ilan U): Immigrant entrepreneurs in Renaissance Italy

- Antoine Pecoud (U. Sorbonne Paris Nord)

- Monder Ram (Aston U.): Policy issues and practical initiatives to support migrant entrepreneurship

- Natalia Vershinina (Audencia): Everyday resilience of migrant entrepreneurs

- Min Zhou (UCLA): The non-economic effects of immigrant entrepreneurship: ethnicity in the creation of social capital

Migrant entrepreneurship is pervasive but still underappreciated. Immigrant entrepreneurs have established many successful start-ups, especially in technical fields. An example is BioNTech, a German startup founded by two Turkish scientists during the Covid pandemic. Beyond tech,  we observe a general overrepresentation of immigrants in self-employment.   Eleven percent of the population, immigrants in the United States create one-quarter of all new firms, and, in some states, 40 percent (Kerr & Kerr, 2020), whereas OECD (2021) reports, “The share of immigrants among the self-employed in the EU nearly doubled over the past decade, increasing from 6% in 2011 to 11% in 2020” (p. 23). At the same time, political crises have created migrations around the world with consequent increase in refugee entrepreneurship (Desai et al., 2021; Harima et al., 2021).

Analysts emphasize the increased interest in migrant entrepreneurship and deplore the fragmented state of knowledge (Dabić et al., 2020, Sundarajan & Sundarajan, 2015, Abebe, 2022, Wiers & Chabaud, 2023). This fragmentation  a product of widely varying research designs undertaken from a multiplicity of disciplinary starting-points (Aliaga-Isla & Rialp, 2013);  in highly diverse contexts (Ram et al., 2017); and among migrant groups widely different in situation and characteristics. Among “immigrant entrepreneurs” one finds refugees, expatriates, ethnic minorities, skilled and unskilled, diasporic and transnational, and so forth (Sinkovics & Reuber, 2021). However, it is also useful to undertake integrative or global analyses of migrant entrepreneurship, in order to “identifies significant gaps in extant studies” (Dabić et al., 2020) and “to build theory, identify assumptions, develop meaningful research questions and establish the ontological and epistemological base of this domain” (Dheer, 2018).

Graduate Students, Early-Career Scholars, and Experienced scholars

Some keynotes will summarize the current state of knowledge in the specialty areas of speakers. Additionally, this conference solicits papers from graduate students and scholars (early career or not). Their papers should respond to the general purpose of this event by contributing to the stock of knowledge regarding migrant entrepreneurship. We welcome papers addressing inter-disciplinary perspectives (Management, Social Sciences, Economics, and so on), and theoretical as well as methodological and empirical studies (See the complete call for more details).

The conference will provide opportunities to discuss these papers in interactive paper development sessions.

Paola Berdugo (IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School), Didier Chabaud (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School), Léo-Paul Dana (Dalhousie University), Christophe Fustini (IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School), Raphaël Haget (IAE Paris-Sorbonne Business School), Ivan Light (UCLA), Alaa Mourad (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Florent Pratlong (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Abida Saidyassine (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jean-François Sattin (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Jan Wiers (IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School)

Physical attendance: 250 € for senior and international scholars, 150 € for PhD students (please join a document to certify your status). This fee includes lunches and coffee breaks during the Conference, Conference materials, a complimentary bag at registration, and a dinner.

Online attendance: 150 € for senior and international scholars, 100 € for PhD students. This fee includes access to all parallel sessions during the Conference and Conference materials.