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Dear Entrepreneurship Division,

I write to invite you to participate in a discussion on how to conduct novel research on the topic of organizational sponsorship.

Organizational sponsorship is a common practice that seeks to increase the survival and performance of new ventures by infusing them with resources that mediate their relationship with their competitive environment (Amezcua, Grimes, Bradley, & Wiklund, 2013). Examples of organizational sponsorship include interventions such as business accelerators, science parks, tax incentives, and entrepreneurial labor force training. Among these, business incubators represent an increasingly prominent example of organizational sponsorship in the U.S. and abroad. Unfortunately, most research examining the efficacy of various organizational sponsorship interventions, including business incubation, has lacked sufficient theoretical development necessary to explicate causal mechanisms that either help or hinder new ventures (Amezcua et al., 2013). Without strong theoretical foundations, prior research on business incubation and other forms of organizational sponsorship has struggled to formulate robust research designs or accumulate strong empirical evidence regarding the impact that sponsorship has on new venture processes and outcomes (Hackett & Dilts, 2004). However, a few recent studies published in leading management and entrepreneurship journals have advanced knowledge of organizational sponsorship by employing innovative data collection techniques and multidisciplinary methodologies (Amezcua et al., 2013; Bruneel, Ratinho, Clarysse, & Groen, 2012; O'Neal, Ford, Lasrado, & Sivo, 2012). The purpose of this professional development workshop is to share recent advances in theory, research design, and data collection techniques that are helping to improve our understanding of how organizational sponsorship affects entrepreneurship. The workshop will highlight three particularly promising methodologies (economic policy analysis, agent based modeling, and cases from a leading academic/practitioner) that are generating robust findings in the practice of business incubation.

Program Session #: 373 | Submission: 17178 | Sponsor(s): (ENT)

Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 2 2014 1:15PM - 3:15PM at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel in Salon 6

Organizer: Alejandro Amezcua; Syracuse U.; 

Organizer: Cameron Ford; U. of Central Florida; 

Presenter: Tiago Ratinho; U. of Baltimore; 

Presenter: Thomas O'Neal; U. of Central Florida; 

Presenter: Vernet Lasrado; U. of Central Florida; 

Presenter: Ivan Garibay; U. of Central Florida; 

Participant: Christopher Hollander; U. of Central Florida; 

Participant: Henriette Schoen; Doctoral Student; 

Participant: Ozlem Garibay; U. of Central Florida; 

Best,

Alejandro Amezcua, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Whitman School of Management

Syracuse University

721 University Avenue

SOM 623

Syracuse, NY 13244-2450

e-mail: aamezcua@syr.edu

office: 315-443-4104