Beijing Institute of Technology ● Zhuhai
IFERA2010 ZHUHAI
JANUARY 13-15
www.ifera2010.org

IFERA@China Family Business Forum

Opportunities and Challenges of Family Business

January 13 – 15, 2010, Zhuhai, China

Guidelines for Paper Submission

 

Authors are kindly requested to prepare the manuscript(s) according to the following guidelines:

  • The original manuscript(s) should be submitted electronically in A4 size format, with a word count about 5000-7000 (excluding references).

  • Please use a front page to include title of the paper, name of the author(s), and affiliation/contact details, etc.??The text of the paper should

  • include title, abstract, key words, main text, references and if necessary, notes, tables, and figures as well.

  • Please avoid using headers/footers, but any short, succinct notes making a specific point, may be placed in a sequential order at the end of the paper before the alphabetical list of references. Notes must contain more than a mere reference.

  • Figures should be presented in black and white, not coloured. They should be placed in the main text.

  • The paper format is as follows: Margins: Top margin 2.54 cm Bottom margin 2.54 cm Left margin 2.54 cm Right margin 2.54 cm

  • Title: Times New Roman, 14 pt bold text, center-aligned , Name of author(s): Times New Roman, 12 pt bold text, center-aligned

  • Affiliations/contact details: Times New Roman, 12pt text, center-aligned , Font for text: Times New Roman, 12 pt, single-spaced throughout

  • Section headings: 12pt bold text

  • Quotations: italics, in inverted commas

  • Reference List

  • References should be gathered together at the end of the main body of the text.

  • Only references cited in the text should be listed in references and all references listed must be cited in the text. ?

  • It will be helpful if references are presented in accordance with the following style. Typical examples are shown below.

Journal Articles

  • Wang Y. and Ahmed P. (2009) ‘The moderating effect of the business strategic orientation on ecommerce adoption: Evidence from?UK family run SMEs’, Journal of Strategic Information System, Vol.18, No. 1, pp. 16-30.

Books

  • Dyer, Jr.W.G. (1986) Cultural Change in Family Firms: Anticipating and Managing Business and Family Transitions, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Book Chapters

  • Cameron, K.S. and Whetten, D.A. (1983) ‘Organisational effectiveness: One model or several?’, In: Cameron, K.S. and Whetten, D.A. (Eds.), Organisational Effectiveness: A Comparison of Multiple Methods (pp.1-24), New York, NY: New York Academic Press.

Conference Papers

  • Rauch, A., Wilklund, J., Freese, M. and Lumpkin, G.T. (2004) ‘Entrepreneurial Orientation and Business Performance: Cumulative Empirical Evidence’. Paper presented at the 23rd Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Glasgow, UK.