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PDW Invitation: fugees, Social Enterprise, and Private Sector Innovation

  • 1.  PDW Invitation: fugees, Social Enterprise, and Private Sector Innovation

    Posted 07-05-2017 15:36
    [Apologies for Cross Posting]
       
    Session Type: PDW Workshop
    Program Session: 454 | Submission: 12072 | Sponsor(s): (SIM, GDO, OCIS, TIM)
    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 5 2017 4:45PM - 6:15PM at Atlanta Marriott Marquis in Atrium A703
     
    Refugees, Social Enterprise, and Private Sector Innovation:
    Beginning a Conversation
    Refugees and Innovation

    Organizer: Charlotte M. Karam, American U. of Beirut 
    Organizer: Randa Salamoun, American U. of Beirut 
    Organizer: Bijan Azad, American U. of Beirut 
    Facilitator: Alain Daou, American U. of Beirut 
    Facilitator: Samer Abdelnour, Erasmus U. Rotterdam 
    Facilitator: Corinna Frey, Cambridge Judge Business School 
    Facilitator: Benson Honig, McMaster U. 
    Facilitator: Laura E. Mercer Traavik, BI Norwegian Business School 
    Facilitator: Raymond Saner, CSEND research SDGs RBC 
    Facilitator: Jawad Syed, Lahore U. of Management Sciences 
    Facilitator: Hans Van Dijk, Tilburg U. 
    Facilitator: Lichia Saner-Yiu, Center For Socio-Economic Development 
    Facilitator: Galini Gavrilidou, McMaster U. 
    The aim of this PDW is to bring together researchers and practitioners from management, innovation, entrepreneurship, social and technology fields to discuss, and debate the role of social enterprise and private sector innovation and technologies in addressing the current global refugee crises. More specifically, this PDW proposes to carve out pathways forward for research, theory development and practical policy interventions vis-à-vis refugee crisis that focuses on the intersections and interactions between social enterprise, private sector actors, technology and innovation
    Search Terms: Refugees | innovation | Social enterprise
     

    Charlotte M. Karam, PhD 

    Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior

    Associate Dean of Programs

    Director of the KIP Project
    Olayan School of Business



            American University of Beirut


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