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ICSB Sunday Times Editor’s note:
Grab your coffee, this week’s ICSB Sunday Times is packed with global milestones and new insights. We start with the ICSB 2025 World Congress in Cairo, celebrating its 70th anniversary and set to transform how MSMEs approach digital transformation and resilience. Next, we explore the latest from JSBM, the voice of small business scholarship since 1963, and new research in JICSB on how family entrepreneurial teams foster innovation. Plus, leadership features on Unathi Lutshaba’s impact on the creative economy and Ahmed Osman’s lasting legacy, along with bold perspectives on AI disruption and visionary corporate leadership, creating a lineup that highlights the power and potential of entrepreneurship and MSMEs worldwide.
— Dr. Ayman ElTarabishy
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ICSB 2025 GLOBAL: Cairo Hosts Milestone Small Business Congress
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The International Council for Small Business marks 70 years of impact with its World Congress in Cairo, Egypt, November 24-28, 2025. Hosted at the American University in Cairo, this milestone event brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers under the theme “Innovation Unleashed: Empowering MSMEs for a Resilient Future.” Egypt’s entrepreneurial landscape offers the ideal backdrop for examining how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises navigate digital transformation and global supply chain disruptions. The country’s strategic location, which links Africa, Asia, and Europe, reflects the international scope of challenges facing small businesses worldwide.
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Editor’s Pick
Accelerating SME Digitalisation
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We are excited to share the latest news and insights from the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). JSBM has been the voice of small business scholarship since 1963, making it the world’s oldest academic journal dedicated to entrepreneurship and small business research. JSBM publishes rigorous, impactful, and globally relevant studies that explore small business management and entrepreneurship. Each issue features work from leading scholars and practitioners, advancing knowledge and offering insights that bridge theory with practice. By highlighting emerging trends, innovative models, and real-world challenges, JSBM remains a trusted platform for research that informs practice and drives global impact.
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CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH FROM JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SMALL BUSINESS (JICSB)
Family firms and entrepreneurial teams: A dynamic view from Argentina
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This article looks at how family businesses and entrepreneurship connect through family entrepreneurial teams (FETs). These teams help family firms grow by improving organization, building stronger market ties, and uniting family members. The study shows FETs can boost innovation and sustainable growth, especially in emerging economies. (read)
By:Andrea Minetti,Noelia Barberis,José Borello &Rubén Ascúa. (2025).
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GLOBAL LENS:
Unathi Lutshaba: Powering South Africa’s Creative Economy
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Meet Ms. Unathi Lutshaba, who serves as Director of the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) since 2018, where she has built one of the country’s strongest research platforms on the creative economy. Under her leadership, policymakers and stakeholders now have a clear understanding of the economic and social value of the cultural and creative industries.
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INSIDE ICSB
2019 to 2025 Leadership in Motion
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Meet Ahmed Osman, Past Chairman of ICSB (2019–2021), who was the first Arab and African to lead the organization and its youngest Chairman since its founding in 1955. He has spearheaded initiatives like the Global MSME Report, ICSB Knowledge Hubs, and the Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit, supporting over 100 startups and advancing MSME development globally. As President of GEN Egypt and CEO of CHROME, he continues to drive innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable growth.
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AI and the Punctuated Revolution
Flashback to the 1950s: Elvis Presley had everyone “All Shook Up” with hits like “Heartbreak Hotel,” and Dean Martin serenaded many with “Memories Are Made of This.” It was a time of jukeboxes, rebellious teens, and…dinosaurs? Well, not literally, but let’s come back to that. (read more)
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The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management (Classic)
In this second edition of his bestselling book, author Art Kleiner explores the nature of effective leadership in times of change and defines its importance to the corporation of the future. He describes a heretic as a visionary who creates change in large-scale companies, balancing the contrary truths they can’t deny against their loyalty to their organizations. The Age of Heretics reveals how managers can get stuck in counterproductive ways of doing things and shows why it takes a heretical point of view to get past the deadlock and move forward.
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ICSB 70th Anniversary – From ICSB History Book
📚 ICSB oversees multiple academic journals beyond JSBM, including the Journal of the International Council for Small Business (JICSB) and Advances in Small Business Research, expanding its role as a knowledge hub for entrepreneurship worldwide.
🎓 ICSB pioneered the concept of Humane Entrepreneurship, integrating empathy, ethics, and empowerment into traditional entrepreneurship models—an approach now recognized and taught in universities across the globe.
🌍 ICSB has consultative status with the United Nations and UNCTAD, allowing it to discuss entrepreneurship, MSMEs, and development directly.
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We are devoted to the interests and advancement of small business globally
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