Awards

ICSB 2019 Congress announces the categories from best paper and recognition awards. All papers submitted will be automatically entered into these categories. The awards carry various recognition and will be presented during the congress and the signature gala event.

Award Number One: The Best Paper for Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM)

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER:  Entrepreneurship, Poverty Reduction, and Peace: Exploring transformative entrepreneurship in conflict zones: Jay Joseph, Safeen Raouf, Alain Daou, Zainab Ali and Gerald Reyes

Award Number Two: The Best Humane Entrepreneurship Paper

  • $1000 monetary award
  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER:  A Meaningful Change in Indonesian Small and Medium Scale Enterprise: Human Entrepreneurship approach: Banowati Talim

Award Number Three: The Best High Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship Paper

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Entrepreneurship and Emirati Women: Social Comparison Orientation as a Motivation for Self-Employment: Khyati Shetty, Jason Fitzsimmons and Shahzia Khan

Award Number Four: The Best Youth Entrepreneurship Paper

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: The Four-Aces Framework, Cadence Kaumoana

Award Number Five: The Best Paper from North and South America

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER:  A CONCEPTUAL MODEL TO OVERCOME THE FACULTY CHALLENGES WHEN INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS: Jahannie Torres-Rodríguez and Moraima De Hoyos

Award Number Six: The Best Paper from Europe

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: COGNITIVE APPROACH: REASONS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CSR PRACTICES BY THE SME OWNER-MANAGER: Rosalie Douyon and Agnès Paradas

Award Number Seven: The Best Paper from Middle East & Africa

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER:  Introduction to Design Thinking Workshop: Nahel  Muhammad Amirah

Award Number Eight: The Best Paper from Asia

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Effects of multilevel policy mix of public R&D subsidies: Empirical evidence from Japanese local SMEs: Hiroyuki Okamuro and Junichi Nishimura

Award Number Nine: The Best Paper from Australia and New Zealand

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Australian Higher Education Sector and SMES: Mariya Yesseleva Pionka

Award Number Ten: The Best Paper from the Caribbean

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: SMEs Internationalization from the Perspective of Opportunity/Necessity Drivers, Attitude to Growth and Development of Innovation
Authors: Maribel Ortiz-Soto, Karen L. Orengo-Serra and Juan Antonio Peña-Hevia

Award Number Eleven: The Best Paper on Micro-, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises and SDGs

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: The impact of the combination of CSR actions and CSR management tools on the perceived performance in SMEs: Rhita Safy, Philippe Chapellier and Claire Gillet-Monjarre

Award Number Twelve: The Best Policy Paper Award

  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: A Necessary Approach to Develop Santripreneurship: Ahmad Cholis Hamzah and Ubaidillah Zuhd

Award Number Thirteen: The Kai Yang Award

  • Best Paper from Taiwan in honor of Dr. Kai Yang
  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEMS: SPANNING INSTITUTIONAL GAPS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES VIA INCUBATOR NETWORKS: Radha Iyer and Shirin Khokhawala

Award Number Fourteen: The Brian Gibson Practitioner Award

  • Best Paper in honor of Dr. Brian Gibson
  • Paper needs to focus on entrepreneurs in the practice of a profession, occupation
  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Divergent Patterns of Institutional Entrepreneurship by Emerging Country Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Egyptian ICT Startups: Dina Mansour, Seham Ghalwash and Ayman Ismail

Award Number Fifteen: The Erik K. Winslow Best Doctoral Paper Award

  • Best Paper in honor of Dr. Erik K. Winslow
  • Paper lead author needs to be a doctoral student
  • Fast track review for JSBM publication
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER:  Refugees Entrepreneuring: Rosa Lisa Iannone

Award Number Sixteen: The Lillian Dreyer Advocate Award

  • Given to deserving individual who supports women in research and practice in the area of entrepreneurship and small business worldwide
  • Presented at the Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: Entrepreneurship and Emirati Women: Social Comparison Orientation as a Motivation for Self-Employment: Khyati Shetty, Jason Fitzsimmons and Shahzia Khan

Award Number Seventeen: The Kitty Hawk Best Experiential Education Exercise Award

  • Best Education Experiential Workshop in honor of Dr. Reg Litz
  • Presented at Gala
  • Presidential Letter and Commemoration Gift

WINNER: The “How to drive growth” Workshop – Experiential Exercise: Ewald Mittelstaedt and Claudia Wiepcke

Award Number Eighteen: ICSB Global Awards in Entrepreneurship Education Excellence

WINNERS:

Dr. Ewald Mittelstädt: South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences

Jeffrey Hornsby: University of Missouri

Eric Liguori: Rowan University