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This conference is intended to further the institutional approach to entrepreneurial studies.  An institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.
 
A wide variety of topics fit within this broad theme. Some illustrative examples include:
 
-        the creation of new institutional structures to facilitate the development of new kinds of organizations;
-        the role of government policies in helping (or hindering) new ventures;
-        the use of symbols to legitimate novel organizations;
-        the role of norms, values, and traditions in facilitating (or impeding) entrepreneurship;
-        deinstitutionalization of an established practice as a form of entrepreneurial opportunity;
-        the creation of standards to support new types of economic activities
-        the construction of new classifications of professions that support the founding of new categories of organizations.
 
The conference will be limited to 20 papers. To promote interaction between senior and junior scholars, half of these slots will be reserved for papers with an untenured (or recently tenured) first author.  Papers will be accepted based on competitive submission. A small number of leading scholars will facilitate the paper sessions, these include Dick Scott, Howard Aldrich, and Pamela Tolbert among others.  The conference will pay for two nights of hotel (one room) per paper. A select group of papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work focused on the topic of institutions and entrepreneurship. A second conference is planned for 2008 in Montreal.
 
Please send a full paper to laura.ierfino@mail.mcgill.ca by February 1^st, 2007.  Decisions will be made March 15^th, 2007. 
 
We look forward to seeing you in Ithaca!
 
Wesley D. Sine                                                           Robert J. David
Johnson Graduate School of Management                   Desautels Faculty of Management
Cornell University                                                       McGill University
 


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Wesley D. Sine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
J. Thomas Clark Professor in Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY    14850
Tel:  607-254-1336
Fax: (607) 254-4590
e-mail:  wds4@cornell.edu

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Greetings!


We would like to remind everyone that the deadline for submission to the Institutions and Entrepreneurship Conference in Montreal, Canada is February 29th. This year a number of excellent scholars will be participating in the conference including Richard Scott, Pamela Tolbert, Anne Miner, Tina Dacin, among others.  Please see the call below for conference details.





 
This second annual conference is intended to further the institutional approach to entrepreneurial studies.  An institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.
 
Sessions will be organized around these broad themes:
 
-        the creation of new institutional structures to facilitate the development of new kinds of organizations;
-        the use of symbols to legitimate novel organizations;
-        the role of norms, values, and traditions in facilitating (or impeding) entrepreneurship;
-        deinstitutionalization of an established practice as a form of entrepreneurial opportunity;
-        the creation of standards and conventions to support new types of economic activities;
-        the role of social movements in disrupting and constructing institutions and new kinds organizations;
-        the effect of state institutions on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.
 
Our desire is for this conference to be highly interactive, so we are limiting participation to a small number of (approx. 25 or so) paper presentations.  To promote interaction between senior and junior scholars, half of these slots will be reserved for papers submitted by more junior scholars.  Papers will be accepted based on a competitive submission process. A small number of leading scholars will facilitate the paper sessions; these include W. Richard Scott, Howard Aldrich, and Pamela Tolbert, among others. 
 
The conference is sponsored by the McGill Centre for Strategy Studies in Organization, and Entrepreneurship @ Cornell. We will cover onsite accommodations for 2 nights for presenters (one room per accepted paper). A select group of papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work focused on the topic of institutions and entrepreneurship.
 
Please send a full paper to Hermann Juergens (hermann.juergens@mail.mcgill.ca) by February 29^th, 2008.  In a covering email, please indicate which theme from those above best describes your paper. Decisions will be made by March 31^st, 2008. 
 
We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!
 
Robert J. David                                              Wesley D. Sine                                  
Desautels Faculty of Management                   J. Thomas Clarke Professor of Entrepreneurship
McGill University                                           Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University



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Wesley D. Sine, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
J. Thomas Clark Professor in Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY    14850
Tel:  607-254-1336
Fax: (607) 254-4590
e-mail:  wds4@cornell.edu
http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Sine/

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