This professional development workshop brings diverse perspectives on the impact of labor market structures on entrepreneurship into dialogue. A central insight from this literature is that labor market structures shape both the availability and nature of employment opportunities, influencing their attractiveness relative to entrepreneurship. Scholars have explored how employment discrimination, regulation, and organizational characteristics shape opportunity structures and subsequent entrepreneurial entry and outcomes - revisiting long-standing mechanisms through new theoretical lenses, methodological approaches, and empirical contexts.
The workshop has two parts. In the first, leading scholars will present emerging work and reflections on labor market structures and entrepreneurship. In the second, roundtable discussants will offer feedback on participants' submitted work.
We welcome submissions at many stages of the research process - from theoretical development of preliminary results to completed manuscripts. Format is flexible; what matters is that your submission provides enough context for discussants to engage substantively with your ideas, arguments, and findings.
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Panelists/Roundtable Discussants:
Mabel Abraham - Columbia Business School
Geoffrey Borchhardt - University of Oregon
Susie Choe - University of Minnesota
Kylie Jiwon Hwang - Northwestern University
Damon J. Phillips - University of Pennsylvania
Chris I. Rider - University of Michigan
Tiantian Yang - University of Pennsylvania
Peter Younkin - University of Oregon
Organizers:
Katie Apker - Cornell University
Peter Polhill - Cornell University
Grady Raines - Indiana University
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