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Darden School of Business: Batten Institute Joins ERPN Research Paper Series Sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation

We are pleased to announce that the Darden School of Business: Batten Institute has started a Research Paper Series sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation within the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN).

Darden School of Business: Batten Institute

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The Darden School of Business: Batten Institute is dedicated to the creation of knowledge about the transformative power of entrepreneurship and innovation and to the cultivation of principled, entrepreneurial leaders. We believe that entrepreneurship and innovation are powerful mechanisms for addressing society’s most pressing issues and that economic and social advancement requires leaders who embrace an entrepreneurial outlook and a commitment to innovation of all kinds. (View full announcement)

Last month, we beta tested abstract “commenting” functionality on all abstracts in our Cognitive Science Network (CSN). With the initial success and positive feedback, we added the functionality to all abstracts in our Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network (ERPN). This feature expands the possibilities and conversations based on scholarly research in the SSRN eLibrary. We will add commenting to all abstract pages later this year.

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Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Legislative Repeal of Capital Punishment in New Jersey Online Proceedings

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On April 14, 2008, principal actors in the 25-year capital punishment drama gathered at Seton Hall Law School. The symposium reflected on the judicial, legislative, and popular efforts to sustain, limit, and ultimately abandon capital punishment. (View full announcement)

CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series

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The CASE - Center for Social & Economic Research Research Paper Series contains abstracts and papers focused on the results of research in the broader field of social and economic studies and undertaken as part of research and technical assistance projects. (View full announcement)

Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal Research Paper Series

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The Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship Growth & Renewal at the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business contains abstracts and papers from this institution focused on the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, growth, and renewal. (View full announcement)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Vermont Law School Research Paper Series

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The Vermont Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series contains a wide range of papers from scholars at the Vermont Law School. Vermont is particularly known for its work in Environmental Law and related subjects such as Natural Resources, Energy and Land Use, and papers on these topics are well represented. Vermont’s scholarship also embodies a diverse spectrum of additional doctrinal and interdisciplinary interests, and the papers in this series reflect this diversity as well. (View full announcement)

New ERN Subject Matter eJournal & 3 Expanded Subject Matter eJournals

We are pleased to announce a new Economics Research Network (ERN) Subject Matter eJournal — Game Theory & Bargaining Theory — as well as the expansion of three Subject Matter eJournals — Institutional & Transition Economics, Microeconomics, and Organizations & Markets. (View full announcement)

New Corporate Governance Network

CGN is sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute, whose mission is to provide thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors. While the Institute is a relatively new non-profit organization, formed with the proceeds of the sale of the Investor Responsibility Research Center in 2006, it continues the tradition and standards of objective research for which IRRC has been known since 1972. For more information, please see http://www.irrcinstitute.org.

CGN’s founding director is Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, and Director, Corporate Governance Program, Harvard University - Harvard Law School; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).(View full announcement)

Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 Abstracting eJournal

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The aim of this annual conference series is to improve our ability to answer the “big picture” questions and other related questions by engaging some of the world’s top researchers on competitive advantage in Atlanta for 3 days each year. You can browse abstracts and download the full text of all papers given at the Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference 2009 in the SSRN database. (View full announcement)