As you prepare your schedule for Academy, please consider our invitation to participate in a Professional Development Workshop entitled, 'Using Simulation Experiments to Build and Test Entrepreneurship Theories'. There is limited capacity for this event, so please pre-register by the July 26th deadline. More specifics follow.
Program Session #: 184 | Submission: 12454 | Sponsor(s): (ENT) | PDW Cosponsor(s): RM
Saturday, August 7, 2010 | 8:00AM - 12:30PM | Le Palais Des Congres, room 512D
Coordinator: G. Christopher Crawford; U. of Louisville;
Presenter: William Rand; R. H. Smith School at U. of Maryland;
Presenter: Michael North; Argonne National Laboratory;
Presenter: Martin Ganco; U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
Discussant: Philip Anderson; INSEAD;
Discussant: Olav Sorenson; Yale School of Management;
Simulation modeling has a rich history in the physical and computational sciences as a robust method for developing formal theory. In fact, management scholars have used computer simulation models to build and test theories for more than forty years. Accordingly, entrepreneurship scholars have broadly called for the use of simulation and agent-based theory development as a means of enhancing the domain's legitimacy and covering the field's research agenda more comprehensively. In response, this workshop provides a primer, an outline, and specific examples of how simulation methods can apply to virtually all streams of entrepreneurship's research agenda.
The workshop begins with a general overview of why and how simulation experiments can be used to build and test entrepreneurship theories. Two freely available agent-based simulation toolkits will be presented, NetLogo by Bill Rand and Repast by Michael North, to demonstrate how models can be built from the ground up. Multiple examples will be displayed, including a model that uses data from the Panel of Entrepreneurial Dynamics and the Kauffman Firm Survey. Martin Ganco will present the Academy of Management Review article he co-authored with Rajshree Agarwal, which uses simulation to build a theory on performance differentials between industry incumbents and entrepreneurial start-ups. Olav Sorenson, guest editor of the AMR issue that published the Ganco & Agarwal article, analyzes the contribution of the manuscript and its path through the review process. Sorenson and Administrative Science Quarterly Associate Editor, Philip Anderson, conclude with insights for publishing simulation research.
Information on the PDW is available at:
http://program.aomonline.org/2010/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=12454
Many overflow attendees at last year's agent-based modeling PDW had to sit on the floor for the entire event, so pre-registration is required. Interested participants can register for one of the 60 spaces at: https://secure.aomonline.org/PDWReg before the July 26th deadline. If you are waitlisted, please arrive outside room 512D by 07:55 and we will try to find you a seat.
Hope to see you there.
Best regards,
CC
G. Christopher Crawford
University of Louisville
Entrepreneurship Ph.D. Student
O: (502) 852-5053
E: Christopher.Crawford@Louisville.edu
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