Reversing the Arrow: Examining how Entrepreneurialism Affects Society
Professional Development Workshop # 15300
August 7 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
In-person
PDW Chair: Robert Eberhart - Stanford Graduate School of Business
Organizer: Tim Weiss - Imperial College London
Presenter: Sarah Kaplan - U. of Toronto
Presenter: Howard Aldrich - U. of North Carolina
Presenter: Rachel Atkins - NYU Stern
Presenter: Michael Lounsbury - U. of Alberta
Presenter: Violina Rindova - U. of Southern California
Presenter: P Devereaux Jennings - Alberta School of Business
Presenter: Andrew Nelson - U. of Oregon
Presenter: Charlene E. Zietsma - Penn State U.
Presenter: Wesley Sine - Cornell U.
Presenter: Jennifer E Jennings - U. of Alberta
Presenter: Jeff York - U. of Colorado, Boulder
Presenter: Timothy Hannigan - U. of Alberta School of Business
We invite you to join our PDW on Reversing the Arrow where we investigate entrepreneurship's effect on society.
Entrepreneurship plays a critical role in society. Thus far, the academic focus on new ventures focused almost exclusively on how society affects entrepreneurship (i.e., amount and type of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial opportunities, etc.) and entrepreneurship's contribution to socio-economic development. Yet, a new perspective and community of scholars has emerged in a new stream of research to investigate how entrepreneurship transforms and affects society.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will be divided into three sessions:
Session 1 - 6 presentations of provocative frameworks suggesting how to productively study the intersection of entrepreneurship and society (60 minutes).
Session 2 - PDW Participants will self-select to join one of the six theoretical perspectives in targeted discussion tables, each led by key scholars (45 minutes).
Session 3 - Each discussion table presents back the main insights to inform that agenda of the 2023 Entrepreneurship & Society conference scheduled to take place in at Lake Tahoe during June 2023 (45 minutes).
Discussion topics and discussion leaders:
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Discussion Topics
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Discussion leaders
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Gender and race in an entrepreneurial society
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Rachel Atkins & Sarah Kaplan
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Work and inequality in an entrepreneurial society
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Robert Eberhart & Howard Aldrich
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Agency and futures in an entrepreneurial society
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Violina Rindova & Tim Weiss/
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Ideologies in an entrepreneurial society
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Charlene Zietsma & Mike Lounsbury
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Power and systems change in an entrepreneurial society
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Wes Sine & Jennifer Jennings & Jeff York
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New methodological perspectives to study an entrepreneurial society
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Tim Hannigan & Dev Jennings
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This PDW will extend six theoretical elements in this stream to engage with the investigations of approaches to grand challenges. These elements will form the backbone of this PDW to facilitate building out new theory: 1) the reflective ideology of neo-liberal entrepreneurship; 2) entrepreneurial actors (leaders and teams) employing discursive & material practices; 3) the positive and negative impacts on society, organization, and individuals; 4) the diffusion of entrepreneurialism into other social realms, 5) power, status and the emergence of a new elite, and 6) methodologies for the empirical study of entrepreneurialism.
We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!
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Robert Eberhart
Stanford University
Stanford CA
(650) 315-8603
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