Dear colleagues,
During the next Philosophy of Management conference in Oxford (9-12 July 2015), we organize a special track on philosophies of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Creativity.
Sample topics
o Philosophical reflections on basic concepts in entrepreneurship research, like the nature of entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial activity, opportunity recognition, risk taking and the role of failure, the relation between entrepreneurship and innovation, the contribution of entrepreneurs to societal progress (producing existing products in a more (economic) efficient way versus new product development in response to societal needs) etc
o Creating business opportunities versus finding business opportunities; the role of rationality, practical wisdom and emotions in the entrepreneurial process of opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation
o Philosophical reflections on central notions of innovation, such as the idea of innovation and possible tensions between different concepts of innovation (like disruptive innovation and responsible innovation), the self-evidence of a technological conceptualization of innovation and the importance of innovations in human/societal behaviour, the role of tradition and craftsmanship (the old) in the production of the new, the self-evidence of economic theories in innovation and the advantages of alternative conceptualizations, like free and open source, commons based peer-to-peer (p2p) innovation strategies etc
o The role of entrepreneurship and innovation in our society, reasons for the entrepreneurship hype, the imperative of corporate innovation, the self-evidence of economic theories in entrepreneurship, the changing role of entrepreneurship in the sharing economy, circular economy etc
o The ethics of entrepreneurial decision making processes, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the role of egocentrism and altruism, the trade-offs between economic and societal/environmental interests, the entrepreneurial virtues, the political responsibility of corporations for the future impact of innovations, the distribution of costs and benefits of corporate innovation in our society etc.
See https://wu.academia.edu/VincentBlok/Posts for the full call for papers or send me an email for the PDF.
Dr. Vincent Blok MBA
Assistant Professor in Responsible Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
https://wu.academia.edu/VincentBlok
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