PLEASE CIRCULATE
Entrepreneurship outside Enterprise
22 September 2006, 11.00 - 16.15
A one day symposium organized by the Warwick
Organization Theory Network,
Warwick Business School, UK
Full Time MBA Teaching Centre, Room A2
In the past twenty-five years we have witnessed the
unprecedented spread of the concept of
entrepreneurship. The idea of enterprise has moved out
of its heart land of small businesses and into most
sectors of social and economic life. We now talk about
employees of large corporations as intrapreneurs,
government officers as public sector entrepreneurs,
policy makers as institutional entrepreneurs,
gangsters as violent entrepreneurs, and charities as
engaging in social entrepreneurship. We would like to
ask: what are the theoretical, social, and political
implications of such a radical generalization of
entrepreneurship?
In order to explore this question, The Warwick
Organization Theory Network is organizing a one day
symposium on entrepreneurship outside enterprise.
The aim is to explore whether the idea of
entrepreneurship is applicable and relevant outside
the formal business enterprise. During the day we will
explore three specific areas:
1. Institutional entrepreneurship. In this
session we will consider the potential of
institutional entrepreneurship as a theoretical
framework for understanding entrepreneurship of
different kinds.
2. Enterprise in the public sector. In this session
we will look at the rise of entrepreneurship in public
sector organizations.
3. Social entrepreneurship. During this session we
will explore the concept of social entrepreneurship,
and its application in different sectors of the
economy.
Each part of the symposium will comprise two
presentations, and some time for discussion and
feedback from the audience.
Speakers include: Colin Crouch (Warwick University),
Bernard Leca (Nottingham University), Alex Nicholls
(Oxford University), Rob Paton (Open University),
Markus Perkmann (Loughborough University), Nelson
Phillips (Imperial College).
For updated information see
http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/entrepreneurshipoutsideentreprise
For directions see
http://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/find/
If you are interested in attending please contact Katy
Carpenter (for catering purposes):
Katy.carpenter@wbs.ac.uk
For further information please contact:
Paul Tracey,
paul.tracey@wbs.ac.uk
André Spicer,
andre.spicer@wbs.ac.uk
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