Christian Keen Henon

EDUCATION

Max Planck School of Economics 2009
Max Planck School on Entrepreneurship Research Jena, Germany

PhD McGill University
Desautels Faculty of Management Montreal, Canada
PhD in Strategy and Organization
Thesis Title: "Internationalization Process of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from Emerging Economies”

Camara de Comercio Uruguay-Canada

Founder and Vice-President

Areas of Expertise

Latin American markets

SMEs and their internationalization strategies

Entrepreneurship

Ethnic Entrepreneuship

My current research with Prof Etemad and Hamed Motaghi from McGill University

Entrepreneurship

Keen, C. & Etemad, H. (2012). Rapid-Growth and Rapid Internationalization of Smaller Enterprises from Canada, Management Decision, 50 (4).

Keen, C. & Etemad, H. (2011). The impact of entrepreneurial capital and rapidly growing firms: The Canadian example, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 12 (3), 273-289.

Keen, C. & Etemad, H. (2011). Rapidly-growing firms and their main characteristics: A longitudinal study from the USA, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 3 (4), 344-358.

Emerging Economies

Etemad, H. & Keen, C. (2014). Entrepreneurial Capital and Internationalization of SMEs based in Emerging Economies, Eds Chrysostome and Molz, Building Businesses in Emerging and Developing Countries
Challenges and Opportunities, Chapt. 4, Routledge Studies in Development Economics, London, UK

Keen, C. (2013). The Internationalization Process of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: An Argentinean Perspective, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 12 (4), 243-269

Keen, C. (2013), The Internationalization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises from Emerging Economies, Eds Hamid Etemad, The Process Of Internationalization In Emerging SMEs and Emerging Economies, Chapt. 4, Elgar Publishing, London, UK

Keen, C. (2013). The Internationalization of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises from Emerging Economies. In Hamid Etemad (Eds.) The Process of Internationalization in Emerging SMEs and Emerging Economies, Edward Elgar Publishing: London, U.K.

Keen, C. & Wu, Y. (2011). An Ambidextrous Learning Model for the Internationalization of Firms from Emerging Market, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 9 (4), 316-336.

Conference Presentations

Internationalization Process of SMEs The Argentinean case¨, Academy of International Business Southeast (AIB Southeast), 2012 USA.

(with Per Servais) “The start-up of International New Ventures - effectively effectuated?”, European International Business Academy (EIBA), December 2010, Porto, Portugal

(with Per Servais) “The Impact of Local Clusters in the Internationalization of SMEs”, iSME International Conference hosted by Groupe ESC Pau, December 2010, Pau, France

(with Per Servais) “An Examination of Localization Effects on International New ventures – Some Implications for Emerging Economies”, McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, September 2010, Montreal, Canada

(with Hamid Etemad) “Rapid-growth enterprises in the united states from 1983 to 2003”, Academy of Management (AOM), August 2009, Chicago, USA

“Intangible Internationalization: SMEs from Argentina”, Academy of Management (AOM), August 2009, Chicago, USA

Max Planck School on Entrepreneurship Research, July, 2009, Jena, Germany

“The Internationalization Process of SMEs from Argentina”, International Management Development Association (IMDA) June 2009) Tiblisi, Georgia

(with Hamid Etemad) “'Towards a Theory of Entrepreneurial Capital: Empirical Evidence from Canadian Smaller, Younger High-growth Enterprises in Emerging Industries”, Academy of International Business UK Chapter (AIBUK),
April 2009, Glasgow, UK

(with Hamid Etemad) “High- Growth and Rapidly Internationalizing Smaller Enterprises from Canada”, McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, August 2008, Dunedin, New Zealand

“The Internationalization Process of Small- and medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies”, Academy of International Business Conference (AIB), July 2008, Milan, Italy

(with Hamid Etemad) “High- and Fast-Growing Smaller Enterprises from Canada”, International Council for Small Business World conference (ICSB World conference), June 2008, Halifax, Canada

(with Hamid Etemad) “Rapidly Growing and Internationalizing Smaller Firms from Canada”, McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, September 2007, UCLA, California, USA

“Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies”, Academy of Management (AOM), August 2007, Philadelphia, USA

(with Yuanyuan Wu ) “An Ambidextrous Learning Model for the Internationalization of Firms from Emerging Market”, Academy of International Business (AIB), July 2007, Indianapolis, USA

(with Hamid Etemad), "Regions and Rapidly-growing Enterprises: A longitudinal Study”, 10th Uddevalla Symposium, June 2007, Uddevalla, Sweden

(with Hamid Etemad) “Rapidly-growing smaller Enterprises: a Longitudinal Profile”, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), June 2007, Ottawa, Canada

(with Hamid Etemad) “Rapidly Growing Enterprises- A longitudinal Study”, International Council for Small Business World conference (ICSB World conference), July 2007, Turku, Finland

“Entrepreneurial Processes in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies”, Doctoral Workshop in International Entrepreneurship, May 2007, Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for International Business Education and Research, Atlanta, USA

“Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Markets”, McGill International Entrepreneurship Conference, August 2006, Montreal, Canada

“Liberalization, Internalizations and emerging economies”, Journal of International Business Studies Workshop, Academy of International Business (AIB), July 2005, Quebec City, Canada

“Liberalization, Internalizations and emerging economies”, Academy of International Business Doctoral Consortium, July 2005, Quebec City, Canada

Workshops

Effectuation Workshop, Stanford University, 2011

Kaufman Foundation, 2010

Max Planck School on Entrepreneurship Research, July, 2009, Jena, Germany

“Entrepreneurial Processes in Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies”, Doctoral Workshop in International Entrepreneurship, May 2007, Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for International Business Education and Research, Atlanta, USA