(November 15 – 14:30 ET) – The Canadian Bankers Association presented three awards for excellence in small business and entrepreneurship research, this weekend, at the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship annual conference.
“The quality research being discussed at the conference exemplifies some of the best work in our collective quest for answers to questions about small business and entrepreneurship,” says Linda Routledge, director of Consumer and Commercial Affairs for the CBA while presenting the awards.
The awards went for:
- Best Paper – Pramodita Sharma, Jess H. Chua and James J. Chrisman received $1500 for their paper, “Succession Planning and its Dimensions in Family Firms: Empirical Evidence”
- Runner-up Best Paper – Thomas Astebro and Glen Sampson received $1000 for their paper, “The Statistical Accuracy of a Process to Evaluate Exante the Expost Commercial Success of Inventions.”
- Best Graduate Paper – Lisa Watson, Barbara Orser and Allan Riding also received $1000 for their paper, “Going for it! Exports as a Road to Growth for Women-Owned Canadian Businesses.”
The awards were presented at a gala dinner held at the 16th annual CCSBE
Conference, Entrepreneurship: Peaks and Valleys in Banff, Alberta. The CCSBE
was established in 1979 to encourage high quality academic research and theory relative to the field of entrepreneurship and small business.
-IE Staff
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