Please take note of the PDW titled "Theoretical Perspectives of Academic Entrepreneurship: Current and Future Directions", for the 2014 Academy of Management Meeting taking place August 1-5 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PDW is scheduled on Saturday, Aug 2 2014 8:00AM - 10:30AM at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in Freedom G.
Abstract
The aim of this PDW is to bring together scholars who have theory or process driven perspectives of academic entrepreneurship. Over the past three decades, attention towards the commercialization of university research (a.k.a. academic entrepreneurship) has increased dramatically. This form of entrepreneurship activity occurs via licensing agreements or new ventures that originate from knowledge that is acquired or developed within a University setting (Druilhe & Garnsey, 2004). The PDW extends discussions from prior AOM Annual Meetings on the 'entrepreneurial university' as a valuable context for further research. In particular, the workshop extends the highly regarded discussion from the 2011 PDW on "Research on Universities and Commercialization: Contributions to Management Research." That PDW documented and discussed emerging empirical relationships. The phenomena driven body of evidence suggests that the antecedents, attributes and outcomes of academic entrepreneurship are not adequately explained or predicted by general theories of entrepreneurship (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000) or by unmodified measurement scales that were developed to measure the behavior of private firms in competitive markets (Todorovic, McNaughton & Guild, 2011). Given the multiple stakeholders representing different levels of analysis and rooted across varied base disciplines, it is especially warranted to integrate wide-ranging theoretical perspectives. Along these lines, this PDW compliments the upcoming special issue of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal on Theories of Entrepreneurship that challenges researchers to use "appropriate disciple-specific tools of analysis, that revisit and revise existing theory, assumptions, or perspectives to more accurately reflect the challenges and realities of what we now know about entrepreneurship."
Confirmed Speakers/Participants
Phil Phan, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Gianiodis, College of Business & Behavioral Science, Clemson University
Don Siegel, School of Business, University at Albany- SUNY
Jeff Hornsby, University of Missouri Kansas City, Henry W. Bloch School of Management
Jeff Hornsby, University of Missouri Kansas City, Henry W. Bloch School of Management
William Meek, Department of Management/Marketing, University of Dayton
Janet Bercovitz, College of Business at Illinois
PDW Contributors and Coordinators
Al Link, Bryan School of Business and Economics, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Erik Monsen, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Strathclyde Business School
Sharon Simmons, Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University