Dear ENT Division members & friends,
We can offer an exiting, comprehensive and varied Professional Development Workshop program at this year's Academy meeting. This is thanks to great submissions and organising efforts by members; successful collaboration with six other divisions, and generous contributions by our sponsors, which are listed below.
There is something for all in tastes and interests in this program. The PDW schedule includes 2 PDWs devoted to theory issues; 3 presenting and discussing publicly available data sets; 4 focusing on methodological approaches; 3 addressing teaching and/or practice issues; 1 dealing with research funding; 1 highlighting international collaboration opportunities, and most of the remainder covering a range of core and emerging topical areas in entrepreneurship, such as entrepreneurship in family business; social and sustainable entrepreneurship; corporate venturing; high-tech/high potential entrepreneurship; women entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial orientation; entrepreneurial exit; opportunities; business models; leadership, and industry architecture dynamics. You find the full PDW program pasted further below.
The 2008 ENT division sponsors are as follows:
Gold Sponsors
Chapman University
College of Business, University of Louisville
College of Charleston
EM Lyon
Imperial College London
Jönköping International Business School
Kauffman Foundation
Queensland University of Technology
University of Southern California
Silver Sponsors
Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson College
Jerry S. Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University
Schulich School of Business, York University
Bronze Sponsor
Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises, Syracuse University
Thanking all the sponsors and PDW organizers for their invaluable contributions, I ask you all heartily welcome to this exciting set of PDWs!
Per Davidsson
PDW Chair
Per Davidsson| Research Director & Professor in Entrepreneurship | Faculty of Business | Room Z757 | Phone: +61 7 3138 2051 | Fax: +61 7 3138 5250 | Mobile: you wish... | Email: per.davidsson@qut.edu.au | www.qut.edu.au |CRICOS No. 00213J | Postal address: Queensland University Of Technology|GP Room Z757 |2 George Street, GPO Box 2434 | Brisbane Qld 4001 |Australia
2008 ENT Division PDW Sessions:
7. Exploring the Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Family Business: A Global Perspective (ENT, ITC, BPS) Friday, Aug 8 20081:00PM - 4:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 203A
8. Social & Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research "In the Rough"(ENT, PNP)
Friday, Aug 8 2008 1:00PM - 3:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 211B
30. Questions (Not So) Rational Entrepreneurs Ask: Decisionmaking thru the Lens of Neuroeconomics (ENT, RM) Friday, Aug 8 2008 3:00PM - 5:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 213C
31.Creating New Access to Business Data
(ENT, TIM, ITC)
Friday, Aug 8 2008
3:00PM - 6:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 209A
41.Support for "The Questions We Ask"
(ENT)
Friday, Aug 8 2008
4:00PM - 6:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 206A
72.The Business Model: In Search of Meaning (BPS, ENT, OMT, IM, MC, HCM)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 8:00AM - 10:30AM Anaheim Convention Center, 201D
74.Learning the Craft of Theory Building
(ENT)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008
8:00AM - 10:00AM Anaheim Convention Center, 206A
76. Supporting High Tech High Potential Entrepreneurship (ENT, TIM)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 8:00AM - 10:00AM Anaheim Convention Center, 204A
102. Process Research Workshop: Methods for Addressing Dynamic Questions
(RM, BPS, OMT, PTC, ENT) Saturday, Aug 9 2008 8:30AM - 4:00PM
Hilton Anaheim, Pacific Pavilion C
126. Globalizing Innovation with National Players: Identifying New Opportunities for Research & Practice (TIM, ENT) Saturday, Aug 9 2008 9:00AM - 11:30AM
Anaheim Convention Center, 202A
129. Research on Universities: Studying Knowledge-Creating Collaboration
(BPS, TIM, OMT, RM, IM, OB, ENT, CM, HCM, IAM) Saturday, Aug 9 2008 9:30AM - 12:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 201C
135. The Questions We Ask about about the Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) Construct.(ENT, RM)Saturday, Aug 9 2008 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Anaheim Convention Center, 303B
145. Industry Architecture Dynamics: the Questions We Ask, the Theory-Practice Frontier and the Agenda (BPS, TIM, OMT, ENT)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 10:30AM - 1:00PM
Anaheim Convention Center, 203A
152. Introduction to Social Networks Research (RM, IM, HR, BPS, ENT, HCM)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 11:00AM - 3:00PM Hilton Anaheim, Palos Verdes A
161. Entrepreneurial Exit: The Questions We Ask and the Answers We Get Around the World (ENT, ITC)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Anaheim Convention Center, 201B
207. Overview of Databases for Answering Questions about Entrepreneurship
(ENT)Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Anaheim Convention Center, 212A
208. Asking questions about women entrepreneurs: Studying, teaching, and guiding entrepreneurial women (ENT)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:00PM - 4:30PM
Anaheim Convention Center, 303D
216. Corporate Venturing: State Of The Art and Developmental Workshop
(ENT, BPS)Saturday, Aug 9 2008 2:30PM - 4:30PM naheim Convention Center, 210A
225. Innovative Teaching Ideas for Management Educators MED, TTC, ENT, BPS)
Saturday, Aug 9 2008 3:00PM - 5:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 201C
276. Asking the Same Questions, But Getting Different Answers: Diverse Perspectives on IORs (BPS, OMT, IM, ENT, TIM, OB, ONE, HCM, CM, IAM)
Sunday, Aug 10 2008 8:00AM - 10:00AM Anaheim Convention Center, 211B
300. Leadership research, practice, and theory: asking critical questions and forging collaborations
(PTC, MC, HR, OB, ODC, GDO, ENT, MEN)
Sunday, Aug 10 2008
8:00AM - 12:00PM Anaheim Convention Center, 210A
302. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (RM, OMT, BPS, ENT, IM, ODC, HR, OM, ONE)
Sunday, Aug 10 2008 8:00AM - 12:00PM Hilton Anaheim, Laguna A
308. New Insights into Theories of Entrepreneurship Through New Questions to Ask
ENT) Sunday, Aug 10 2008 8:30AM - 10:30AM Anaheim Convention Center, 210C
309. Fostering International Collaboration in Entrepreneurship Research
(ENT, ITC) Sunday, Aug 10 2008 8:30AM - 11:00AM Anaheim Convention Center, 204C
380. Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics II Users Group Workshop (ENT)
Sunday, Aug 10 200810:30AM - 12:30PM Anaheim Convention Center, 210C
391.Creation Opportunities: What They Are and Why They Matter(ENT)
Sunday, Aug 10 200811:30AM - 1:30PM Anaheim Convention Center, 206A
392. How to Launch a Successful Business Plan Competition? A Best Practice Symposium (ENT, MED, PTC)Sunday, Aug 10 200811:30AM - 1:30PM Anaheim Convention Center, 212B
393. Social Entrepreneurship: Why Should We Care? The Questions Academics Ask
(ENT, PNP) Sunday, Aug 10 2008 11:30AM - 1:30PM Anaheim Convention Center, 304A