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Let’s talk about mental health and well-being in academia! (posted on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle and @Suzana Varga ) Hi! For this blog post, I have the distinct privilege to be joined by Suzana Varga, a fellow PhD Candidate and friend who studies high growth firms and business scaling. We both share a background in psychology and a deep interest in human behavior and relationships. And as innately curious people, we often muse about how we can make our work life a little bit better than the way we found it. Suzana and I co-wrote this blog post with three ambitions: 1) to sustain conversation around mental health in academia, 2) to highlight ...
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Why do scholars need to focus on the social impact of entrepreneurship apart from social entrepreneurship? (posted on behalf of @Seham Ghalwash Entrepreneurship should solve societal problems by bringing positive externalities that have societal implications. Accordingly, entrepreneurship creates both social and economic value. Indeed, entrepreneurship literature has provided an in-depth understanding of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic growth across developed and developing countries. Yet, the literature overlooks how commercial entrepreneurship as a social multiplier solves societal challenges and still leverages unique opportunities ...
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Entrepreneurship-as-Practice (posted on behalf of @Aviel Cogan and @Tobias Pret ) Whereas strategy-as-practice has become an important alternative to the dominant institutional and resource-based views of strategy research, Entrepreneurship-as-Practice (EaP) has not received adequate attention to date, especially from top tier entrepreneurship journals. As a result, there are enduring gaps in our understanding of the relational and processual nature of entrepreneurial activities. For example, while entrepreneurial resourcing has been shown to have a significant impact on the abilities of entrepreneurs to successfully develop their ventures, little ...
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Reviewer 2 Who? Academic Reviewing as a Doctoral Student (posted on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle ) It’s mid-January as I write this, which means a lot of us doctoral students are coming up for air after a hectic conference submission period. What better way to recover from the holiday season than to push those manuscripts forward, and almost earn a separate doctorate in word count manipulation? There is a rule of thumb in (management) research now that I gathered at the last AOM ENT Doctoral Consortium: editors implore that for every manuscript you submit, you should review 3 manuscripts (because at least 3 others review your work). After all, peer ...
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FIFTH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE ---CALL FOR PAPERS-- Digital Spaces: Firms, Platforms, Ecosystems, and Industries University of Trento Department of Economics and Management Via Inama 5 – 38122 Trento Thursday 9 th and Friday 10 th February 2023 Submission deadline: 16 th January 2023 Email your contribution to: digitaltran@lumsa.it Organizing Committee Andrea Caputo, University of Trento Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Rome LUMSA Alberto Nucciarelli, University of Trento Erica Santini, University of Trento Scientific Committee Paolo Aversa, Bayes Business School, City University ...
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Introducing Nevena Ivanović, PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen. Nevena also won the 2022 TIM Division Best Student Paper Award. What are your research interests right now? My main research motivation is to help employees, teams and organizations perform well under different challenges, including stress, disruptions, crises, as well as transitioning to new forms of working, including human-machine collaboration. At the moment, I am interested in the role of biofeedback in managing stress at the workplace, as well as optimizing human-machine interaction in high-risk and high-stress contexts. What do you think is your most exciting contribution ...
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Here we have Aldona Kapacinskaite, Assistant Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. Aldona also won the 2022 TIM Division Best Dissertation Award. What are your research interests right now? I am interested in studying how external-to-the-firm factors such as competitor moves and changes in the regulatory environment affect resource redeployment and recombination as well as intellectual asset appropriation through secrecy. What do you think is your most exciting contribution to academia? I hope one of my contributions to academia will be to enhance our understanding of secrecy and trade secrets. While we have ...
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Navigating a PhD in Entrepreneurship (post on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle , ENT Division PhD representative) Hello readers! My name is Sai Kalvapalle, and I am the new ENT division PhD representative, which puts me in the amazing position of writing bi-monthly blog posts for what I hope is a captive audience. With these blog posts, I aim to provide a student perspective into topics of interest for the entrepreneurship community. The beauty of such a community, I find, is how diverse, cross-disciplinary, and strong the scholarship is, both theoretically and empirically. Plus, we have the added advantage of being inspired everyday by how entrepreneurs ...
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And now we have Astrid Marinoni of Georgia Tech which is in Atlanta, Georgia. Astrid, you recently won the Best Dissertation at the 2022 Annual Conference. Congratulations! So… What are your research interests right now? My research is at the intersection of regional entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial policy, and strategy. My areas of interest are immigrant entrepreneurship, the consequences of entrepreneurship on broader societal outcomes, and the role of location on startups' success. What do you think is your most exciting contribution to academia? I think my most exciting contribution is to tackle relevant but challenging research questions by drawing ...
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Why do Barefoot Entrepreneurs Stay Poor? (posted on behalf of @Tobias Pret and @Aviel Cogan) Entrepreneurship has long been recognized as a route out of poverty and a means to challenge the status quo. However, within the global south, research has shown that barefoot entrepreneurs, who are marginalized and socially excluded, often remain impoverished despite their successful efforts to pursue entrepreneurial activities and change institutions. While prior studies have explored the creative approaches that such individuals adopt to overcome potential barriers, little is known about the forces and actors that work to prevent barefoot entrepreneurs ...
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Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to invite you to Fisk University's first annual Women's Entrepreneurship event. The panel discussion will take place on October 20th from 9-11 am central time. Here is the zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83952844056 I am also including a flyer with additional details. This event is free of charge, and feel free to invite anyone you wish. Best Regards, R. Duncan M. Pelly, Ph.D. Cal Turner Endowed Chair of Business Fisk University dpelly@fisk.edu
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In this SAP Vlog, Tobias Palm (University St. Gallen) talks to Michael Smets (Oxford University) about his joint paper with Ali Aslan Gümüsay (University of Hamburg) and Timothy Morris (Oxford University) "God at Work: Institutional Logics, Managerial Responses and Institutional Hybridity“ published in 2019 (2020) in Academy of Management Journal. Paper is available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330235624_%27God_at_Work%27_Engaging_Central_and_Incompatible_Institutional_Logics_through_Elastic_Hybridity The interview includes topics such as: • Key messages of paper • Paper Summary • Findings that point beyond this paper References: Gümüsay, ...
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Two tenure track Assistant Professor positions in the department of Business-Society Management Job description Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University invites applications for two tenure track Assistant Professor positions in the department of Business-Society Management, starting in the fall of 2023. Depending on qualifications, hiring at Associate Professor level is also possible. Required qualifications We are looking for candidates with: a PhD in management and organisation or a closely related field (PhD students in their final year are also invited to apply) an expertise in management research geared towards ...
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Let us introduce Raffaele Conti of ESSEC Business School which is northwest of Paris in Cergy-Pontoise, France. Raffaele, you recently joined the TIM Executive Committee as an At Large member, so… What are your research interests right now? My research has always aimed to understand the role and place of institutions, or the rules of the game that define what individuals and organizations can or cannot do. In particular, I have focused on how formal institutions (e.g., IPR laws) can affect innovation and entrepreneurship. Right now, I am continuing to work on institutions, even if possibly from a different angle, as I have been increasingly fascinated by ...
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Starting this Fall 2022, I have stepped down from my role as Communications Chair for the HCM Division. With the transition to the new HCM leadership team, Tory Hogan @ Ohio State University, as our Communications Chair , will be managing HCM Connect microsite in collaboration with Lesley Clack @ Florida Gulf Coast University, as Social Networking Coordinator . To continue my participation/ contributions to the HCM community, henceforth, I plan to write blogs on topics that may interest HCM community members. During my tenure as communications chair, I often came across queries on the missing drafts of message posts created by community members and ...
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Let us introduce Caroline Marra of Harvard Business School which is in Boston, Massachusetts. Caroline, you recently won the Best Student Paper at the 2022 Annual Conference. Congratulations! So… What are your research interests right now? I’m interested in external forces that are beginning to shape medical product innovation, such as the work of patient groups and disease foundations and the use of novel digital technologies in clinical research. What do you think is your most exciting contribution to academia? I think my most exciting contribution is my work to explain the role of rare disease foundations in accelerating therapeutic development. ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Prosocial Power (posted on behalf of @Tobias Pret and @Aviel Cogan ) Not all social entrepreneurs are unsung heroes who manage to address unsolved societal problems. While social entrepreneurship has long been portrayed as a force of good that can empower disadvantaged people, there is a growing recognition that it can also cause unexpected, detrimental societal impacts such as crime and social exclusion. Whether social entrepreneurs are aware of it or not, they wield the power to impact the lives of others not only positively but also negatively, even if this happens unintentionally or indirectly. Given that many ...
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Working Remotely, Abroad (posted on behalf of @Andrew Nixon , Ph.D. Student Representative) I didn’t expect to spend the bulk of my doctorate at home. My master's had been full of conference travel, events, and hanging out on campus without fear of getting infected with anything worse than the common cold. Before agreeing to apply to my Ph.D. program, I had negotiated with my supervisor to spend four semesters abroad, part of this was to mitigate my cardinal sin of staying at one university for all three degrees — I knew I needed to expand my network beyond the campus I was becoming too comfortable with. I started my Ph.D. in Fall 2019, so I had ...
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