Call For Papers
McGill-Cornell Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship
June 24-26, 2008. Montreal, Canada
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 29th, 2008. In a covering
email, please indicate which theme from those above best describes your
paper. Decisions will be made by March 31st, 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