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21st Gateway Entrepreneurship Research Conference

  • 1.  21st Gateway Entrepreneurship Research Conference

    Posted 09-24-2009 13:43
    Dear Colleagues:

    Please make your plans to attend the 21st Annual Gateway Entrepreneurship
    Research Conference at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, April 16-18,
    2010. This is a uniquely styled conference that fosters
    lively group discussions following the keynote addresses given by Dr.
    Kelly Shaver, Professor and Chair in the Department of Management and
    Entrepreneurship at College of Charleston, and Dr. Barbara Bird, Associate
    Professor in the Kogod School of Business at American University.

    The 2010 conference explores the specifying, measuring, and teaching of
    entrepreneur behavior. A recent review of entrepreneur behavior at the
    level of individual (or group) actions during the start up of a venture
    reveals that this broad category of personal characteristics is specified,
    measured, and taught in a myriad of ways. There is no well-founded theory
    or model of entrepreneur behavior that distinguishes it from managerial,
    leadership, creative behaviors, etc. Such a theory or model is necessary
    to advance research and to enable better observation and teaching of
    potential entrepreneurs. At the meeting, we would like to have structured
    discussion topics such as:
    • What are the theories (and research) that guide entrepreneurial
    start up behavior at the individual level (as distinct from organizational
    behavior, leadership behavior)?
    • What dimensions should define entrepreneur behavior?
    • How do we recognize entrepreneur behavior?
    • What measurements should be used to assess/measure entrepreneur
    behavior?
    • Strategies for funding a multi-year project to develop
    psychometrically sound measures.

    Details and registration materials will follow. For information, please
    contact Jeanne Rhodes at 314-977-3850 or ecenter@slu.edu.

    Sincerely,

    Jintong

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    Dr. Jintong Tang
    Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management
    Saint Louis University
    3674 Lindell Blvd., DS 469A
    St. Louis, MO, 63108
    Tel: 314-977-3811
    Fax: 314-977-1484
    Email: jtang3@slu.edu
    http://www.slu.edu/eweb.xml
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