Organization and Management Theory OMT

Overview

This PDW is designed to offer participants experience of studying entrepreneurship and innovation through theoretical and empirical approaches associated with cultural sociology. The backdrop for the PDW is the increasing recognition across entrepreneurship, management and innovation research that cultural resources such as frames, discourses or narratives are an integral part of an on-going process by which entrepreneurs create new ventures or innovations and communicate with their stakeholders about their ventures and innovations to acquire much needed capital and support (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001; Bartel and Garud, 2008). However, whilst the role of culture in general, and of discourse and communication in particular, has been acknowledged in prior research (e.g., Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001), this area remains theoretically and empirically underdeveloped and methodological protocols have yet to be solidified. Given the growing interest in adopting these cultural and discourse based approaches to understanding the nature of entrepreneurship and innovation, in this PDW we aim to provide direct access to a valuable set of theoretical and methodological resources and protocols for exploring questions of entrepreneurship and innovation within different institutional contexts. Thus, the purpose of this PDW is to bring together individuals from entrepreneurship, innovation and organization theory practised in the use of sociological and discourse-based approaches to run a PDW which will enable others to do more work in this area. PhD students and junior scholars with data on entrepreneurial or innovative activities and interested in adopting a cultural or discourse-based approach to develop this data will benefit from the workshop.