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CALL FOR PAPERS: Asia Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS) Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Abstracts (800 words) due: April 1 2011
Paper decisions: May 1 2011
Papers for proceedings due: October 30 2011
Registration opens: June 1, 2011
Early bird registration closes: October 14 2011
Online presentations posted: November 1 2011
Opens: Nga Wai O Horotiu Marae (AUT) (evening) Nov. 28
Conference closes: (evening) December 1
Conference Website: http://www.apros.org/archives/tag/apros-14-key-dates
Promotional Video of Auckland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxy0NHYV9ew&feature=player_embedded
Followed by ANZAM 2011 December 6-9, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

STREAM 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Processes Stream
STREAM CONVENERS
Martie-Louise Verreynne,
University of Queensland Business School
Email: m.verreynne@business.uq.edu.au
Marcus Ho,
Auckland University of Technology
Email:marcus.ho@aut.ac.nz
Retha de Villiers Scheepers,
University of the Sunshine Coast
Email: retha.scheepers21@gmail.com

 

The importance of entrepreneurship, innovation and small firm growth to economies is undisputed. Entrepreneurship and innovation is embedded in local environments, requires local legitimacy, resource mobilization and agency to surmount significant barriers to market, whether in localized or across international markets (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001; Singh, Tucker, & House, 1986). Organizational scholars have established that new firms and new industries may draw many of their resources from their local environments and community resources: skilled employees, services, and finance as well as a customers and suppliers (Ginsberg, Larsen, & Lomi, 2001; Shane, 2003) and are influenced by their institutional and economic environments (Aldrich & Fiol, 1994; Baum & Oliver, 1996). This balance of both global and local dynamics including the strategic deployment of institutional structures to enable entrepreneurship have become central thesis for broader debates in organizational studies, including issues such as local adaptation in innovation, institutional change and evolution in entrepreneurship, rates of regional growth of new firms, and business and society interactions as well as the nature of globalization for entrepreneurship and innovation.

 

At this APROS conference, we aim to discuss the processes that entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms employ to discover and create opportunities, and to successfully bring new innovations to the market. The stream starts from the premise that economic regeneration must be rooted at the local level, that strategies must be regional in design and delivery, and that the influence of both local and international dynamics have profound effects. This stream has three objectives: (1) to increase awareness among researchers on the necessity to add the much needed but often neglected time and geographic dimensions for entrepreneurship and innovation research, (2) to invite and review how Asia Pacific research has contributed to our global understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation processes, and (3) to critically engage traditional or classical management or organizational theory in light of the 'localized' approaches in the Asia-Pacific.

 

Entrepreneurship and innovation process research have provided significant insights for organizational studies (for example, Cohen & Levinthal, 1990; Shane & Venkatraman, 2000; Stevenson & Jarillo, 1990) and we hope to continue this tradition by examining entrepreneurship and innovation research in a variety of settings ranging from large corporate firms to small and medium enterprises, public sector and nonprofit firms. Papers that investigate how firms and individuals deal with challenges and crises, such as the recent global financial crisis, are particularly welcome. We are also interested in a variety of research approaches; such as conceptual papers, large scale quantitative studies through to case, ethnographical and other qualitative studies. Innovation in research methods is encouraged (Davidsson & Wiklund, 2001; Low & MacMillan, 1989; Van Maanen, Sorensen, & Mitchell, 2007).  To facilitate our objectives, we invite submissions on a wide range of entrepreneurship and innovation research in the Asia-Pacific traditions of organizational theorizing. While submissions from a wide range of perspectives and topics are welcome, we specifically invite papers on the following:

 

References:
Aldrich, H. E. & Fiol, C. M. 1994. Fools rush in? The institutional context on industry creation. Academy of Management Review, 19(4): 645-670.
Baum, J. A. C. & Oliver, C. 1996. Toward an institutional ecology of organizational founding. Academy of Management Journal, 39(5): 1378-1427.
Cohen, W. M. & Levinthal, D. A. 1990. Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35(1): 128-152.
Davidsson, P. & Wiklund, J. 2001. Levels of analysis in entrepreneurship research: Current research practice and suggestions for the future. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 25(4): 81-100.
Ginsberg, A., Larsen, E. R., & Lomi, A. 2001. Entrepreneurship in Context: Strategic Interaction and the emergence of regional economies. In C. B. Schoonhoven & E. Romanelli (Eds.), The entrepreneurship dynamic: Origins of entrepreneurship and the evolution of industries. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Lounsbury, M. & Glynn, M. A. 2001. Cultural entreprenuership: Stories, legitimacy, and the acquisitions of resources. Strategic Management Journal, 22(6/7): 545.
Low, M. B. & MacMillan, I. C. 1989. Entrepreneurship: Past Research and Future Challenges. Journal of Management, 14: 139-161.
Shane, S. & Venkatraman, S. 2000. The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 25(217-226).
Shane, S. 2003. A general theory of entrepreneurship: The individual-opportunity nexus. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Singh, J. V., Tucker, D. J., & House, R. J. 1986. Organizational legitimacy and the liability of newness. Administrative Science Quarterly, 31: 171-193.
Stevenson, H. & Jarillo, J. C. 1990. A Paradigm of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Management. Strategic Management Journal, 11: 17-27.
Van Maanen, J., Sorensen, J., & Mitchell, T. R. 2007. The interplay between theory and method. Academy of Management Review, 32(4): 1145-1154.

 

 

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