A two-day research-intensive conference will provide for a better understanding of global challenges facing internationalizing entrepreneurial firms.  This part will provide a unique opportunity for scholars to discuss path-breaking concepts, ideas, frameworks, theory-essentials and methodologies in the plenary and competitive paper sessions by discussing their on-going research. Only unpublished completed, or nearly-completed, papers are invited for presentation and feedback from other scholars and invited practitioners and policy makers. A selected list of papers will be considered for further publication in scholarly venues, including the special issues of Journal of International Entrepreneurship and McGill International Entrepreneurship Book Series (Elgar publishing), International Journal of Business Excellence among others. For previous publications resulting from the conference see http://www.mcgill.ca/mie .