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Call for Papers - oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy: 'CREATING HYBRID VENTURES'

  • 1.  Call for Papers - oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy: 'CREATING HYBRID VENTURES'

    Posted 02-14-2013 09:06
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    oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS
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    Topic:
    CREATING HYBRID VENTURES:
    LEGITIMACY AND SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    Location: Filzbach & Zurich, Switzerland
    Date: 25-30 August, 2013
    Link: http://www.oikos-international.org/en/academic/phd/projectsent-
    2012/ent201100.html
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    THE ACADEMY:
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    The fourth oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy provides a unique
    platform to develop scholars in the early stages of their careers.
    Exceptional PhD candidates, post docs and young faculty are at the center
    of the program. The academy aims at advancing academic research, at
    building networks and at preparing the ground for research relevant for
    theory and practice. The event includes paper development workshops,
    professional development roundtables, research talks and outdoor
    activities in the picturesque Swiss Alps. Participants will also have the
    opportunity to apply their insights and skills in a HUB Challenge Lab in
    collaboration with The Hub Zurich (http://zurich.the-hub.net/) and Ashoka
    Switzerland.

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    FACULTY:
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    Participants will benefit from presenting and discussing their work in
    progress with leading academics who provide feedback on their work and
    share advice about academic career and personal development. Feedback will
    be given by fellow students and three international researchers:

    - ANNE-CLAIRE PACHE
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    Assistant Professor, Holder of the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair,
    ESSEC Business School, France

    - FILIPE SANTOS
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    Associate Professor, Director, Maag International Centre for
    Entrepreneurship, INSEAD, France

    - CLAUS JACOBS
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    SNF Professor of Strategy and Organization,
    University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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    TOPIC:
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    Hybrid ventures combine institutional rationalities in attempts to address
    societal needs and problems that organizations operating with single
    institutional rationalities consistently fail to address. As such, hybrids
    for instance seek to combine economic and ecological logics to enable
    corporate greening, economic and social logics to provide micro-credits,
    economic and governmental logics to help governmental agencies operate in
    more efficient ways, or economic and religious logics to provide banking
    solutions that conform to religious guidelines. Despite their potential,
    however, hybrids face a number of challenges that constrain their chances
    of creation, diffusion, growth, and which generally limit their chances of
    survival and sustainable operation. Within this broad scholarly context,
    we invite conceptual and empirical submissions that may address, but are
    not limited to, the following exemplary TOPICS AND QUESTIONS:

    1)Contextual setting of hybrid ventures:
    - Which institutional settings are more conducive to the creation/growth
    of hybrid ventures?
    - How do hybrid organizational forms diffuse within and across
    institutional settings?

    2)Recognizing opportunities for hybrid ventures:
    - How do entrepreneurs recognize and refine opportunities for hybrid
    ventures?
    - Who recognizes opportunities for hybrid ventures?
    Acquiring resources for hybrid ventures:
    - How does resource acquisition differ between hybrid and 'classic'
    ventures?
    - Human resources: How do entrepreneurs build teams and networks for
    hybrid ventures?
    - Financial resources: How do entrepreneurs acquire financial resources
    for hybrid ventures?

    3)Creating, growing, and exiting hybrid ventures:
    - How are hybrid ventures created/maintained/developed?
    - How do hybrid ventures prevent a 'value drift'?
    - How do entrepreneurs exit hybrid ventures?

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    APPLICATION:
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    To allow for in-depth scholarly discussions, the oikos Young Scholars
    Entrepreneurship Academy is limited to 15 participants (Ph.D. candidates;
    PostDocs or Young faculty).

    The fee is CHF 500. oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology will cover
    costs for hotel accommodation, board and excursions.

    Your application should contain: (1)a paper outline of max. 3 pages,
    (2)a short curriculum vitae and (3)a letter of motivation and interest.

    Please send your application via email to the Academy's Program Chair
    Florian Überbacher, PhD (florian.ueberbacher@unisg.ch).

    Please submit your application by April 15, 2013. Applicants will be
    notified by April 30, 2013. Final papers must be received for circulation
    to academy participants by July 15, 2013.

    We are in contact with Edward Elgar Publishing regarding a publication of
    selected contributions from this year's Academy.

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    GRANTS:
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    In order to facilitate participation by outstanding young scholars from
    developing countries, we offer up to three grants (fee and accommodation).
    To apply for one of these grants, please provide a Letter of Motivation
    and a Letter of Reference from a senior faculty member.


    WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR APPLICATIONS!





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    Florian Ueberbacher, PhD
    Swiss NSF Research Fellow
    Program chair: oikos Entrepreneurship Academy 2013

    Institute of Management (IfB-HSG)
    University of St Gallen
    Dufourstrasse 40a
    CH-9000 St Gallen
    Switzerland

    florian.ueberbacher@unisg.ch
    www.ifb.unisg.ch
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