If you will be attending SMS in Prague this Sunday these sessions will be of potential interest to you:
Entrepreneurship & Stakeholders – The Future Research Agenda
Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 08:00- 09:15
Room: Terrace 2
Session Chair: Ajai Gaur, Rutgers University
Panelists:
· Sharon Alvarez, Ohio State University
· Robert Hoskisson, Rice University
· Mike Wright, Imperial College London
This session is designed to explore future research directions at the intersection of entrepreneurship and stakeholder concerns. Panelists will generate discussion around their insights on the highest potential future research directions. Some of the topics we expect to be addressed are opportunity identification by stakeholders of existing firms, opportunity exploitation and the success of the nascent enterprise, how entrepreneurs' opportunity identification efforts might be improved by a deeper knowledge of stakeholders' utility and how do ideas for stakeholder research regarding firm governance relate to family firms. We also expect panelists to generate a number of undeveloped ideas.
Teaching Strategic Entrepreneurship
Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 09:30 – 10:45
Room: Terrace 2
Session Chair: Janet Bercovitz, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Panelists:
· Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
· Peter Klein, University of Missouri
· Michael Lenox, University of Virginia
The development of the concept of strategic entrepreneurship has been a major intellectual endeavor. While the development of the intellectual capital through research in this domain has been impressive the effective translation of that intellectual capital is challenging. This session will explore how to bring this intellectual capital to students with different concentrations (strategy, public policy, and economics) and at different levels (undergraduate, MBA, and PhD) in an effective and interesting manner.
Poverty, Informal Firms & Strategic Entrepreneurship
Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012
Time: 11:15 – 12:30
Room: Terrace 2
Session Chair: Curt Moore, Texas Tech University
Panelists:
· Garry Bruton, Texas Christian University
· Duane Ireland, Texas A&M University
· Anita McGahan, University of Toronto
Issues associated with poverty and the informal economy are assuming increasing levels of interest and importance among scholars. Also of note is the fact that currently, major conference themes and the calls for several special issues of scholarly journals have been framed with these topics in mind. While these domains overlap, each simultaneously offers a rich set of unique issues for consideration. This session examines the current status of these two domains as well as questions scholars may choose to examine to enhance our understanding of them.
Garry D. Bruton, Ph.D.
Fehmi Zeko Faculty Fellowship
Neeley School of Business at TCU
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
Phone: (817) 257-7421
Co-director - Institute for Global Innovation
and Chinese Entrepreneurship at Tongji University – China
Honorary Professor in the Department of Business
Administration at Sun Yat-sen Business School (SYSBS)- China