PLENARY SESSIONS
Plenary 2 - Business in a Spatial Context: Diasporic Investment & Entrepreneurship
A win-win proposition: Diaspora Engagement & Participation in Jamaica through Investments
Marlene Street Forrest
The Economic & Development Value of Diaspora Mapping: A Comparative Analysis
Neville Ying, Indianna Minto-Coy and Melesha Manderson
Where’s What and What’s Where:Knowing the INs and OUTs of Jamaica in a Geographic Setting
Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr
Plenary 3 - From Shipping to Logistics: Trading in the Information Age
Creating National Wealth Through the Jamaica Logistics Hub
Christopher Tufton
Doing Business in Logistics: The KWL Case Study
Grantley Stephenson
Human Capacity Building for Development in Logistics
Fritz Pinnock
How Technology is Facilitating Logistics
Dwain Powell
Plenary 4 - Keynote
How can I make this country more entrepreneurial?
David Storey
Plenary 5 - Business Roundtable on “Financing MSMEs”
Financing challenges facing SMEs operating in traditional sectors
Donovan Wignal
The benefits of Private Credit Bureaus for Microfinance: wider access to credit; consumers’ empowerment, lower over indebtedness, reduced cross-lending
Megan Deane
The Challenges Faced by Financial Institutions in Funding MSME’S
Paula Barclay
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Panel 1 - Business Models and Business Intelligence for Corporate Transformation
NCB-UWI Sponsored Research in Corporate Transformation
Twila-Mae Logan, Trevor Smith, William Lawrence, Noel Cowell, Maurice McNaughton and Lila Rao-Graham
Panel 2 - Human Resources & Management Practices
Teamwork in the Workplace: Perceptions of Students and Employers
Paulette Henry
Productivity and Worker Protection: Lessons from the Past Decade
Orville Taylor
The Impact of National Culture on Team Work: The Case of Jamaica
Hilary Robertson-Hickling and Vanda Levy-McMillan
Panel 3 - Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Economic Development
Building an Energy Cluster: The Case of an Emerging Caribbean Economy
Seema Ali
Export of Services; Earning From a New Paradigm
Robert Scott
Stock Repurchases:Another Outlet for Managerial Opportunism?
Shelly Alexander and Twila Logan
Panel 4 - Competitiveness, Innovation and Creativity in Caribbean Economies
Country Conditions and their Impact on FDI Flows: Evidence from SIDS
Densil Williams
Entrepreneurial decision-making amidst uncertainty and resource constraints in the SIDS context: a research agenda
Richard A. Martina
Panel 5 - Entrepreneurship & Business Development
Personal Values and Entrepreneurial Intentions of MBA Students in Trinidad & Tobago
Wynette Harewood and Professor Francisco Liñán
Two Hundred Million versus 15 Million – Size, Business Culture and Possibilities for Caribbean SMEs in the Southern Cone-CARICOM/Brazil Relations
Michael E. Roofe and Alison E. Stone Roofe
Panel 6 - Leadership & Management Education
Predicting Performance in Quantitative Research at the University of the West Indies: A Case of Self Assessed Competences vs. Actual Grades
Trevor Smith
Panel 7 - Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and Experiential Learning – A Pedagogical Approach: The Case of the Office of Social Entrepreneurship in generating and monetizing social value
Kadamawe Knife, Edward Dixon and Deon Kerr
Putting Business in Community Development: Managing A Social Franchise
Olivene Burke
Social Entrepreneurship Practices for Accountability of NPOs in Small Island Economies:Trinidad & Tobago
Ambica Medine
Panel 8 - Organisational Culture
The Metaphorical Underpinnings of Transformational Interactions in Caribbean Organisations
Clement Branche and Olivene Thomas
Complaining Behaviour in Jamaican Millennials: A Preliminary Analysis
Anne P. Crick
Panel 9 - Hard & Soft Infrastructure
The adoption of software process improvement programs (SPI) in Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean: A comparative analysis
Delroy Chevers
A Sectoral Analysis of E-money Consumption & Growth
Michael Marshall and Oma Coke
Towards a Knowledge ManagementSystems for Family-Owned Business in Developing Countries: The Case of the Caribbean
Lawrence Nicholson and Lila Rao-Graham
Legal and Regulatory Barriers to Entrepreneurship and Innovation: The Case of Mobile Banking
Maurice McNaughton and Indianna Minto-Coy
Panel 10 - Business Policy Framework
18th Century Jamaican Plantation Business Culture and Its Implications for the Island’s Current Business Environment
Nicole Plummer
A Service Management Research Framework
Michelle McLeod
Category Expertise and Strategic Cue Congruency as Determinants of Consumer New Product Evaluations
Barney G. Pacheco and Karishma Mohammed
