The State of the Field, Entrepreneurial Exit 2013 Conference
The Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden
September 27th–28th, 2013
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Howard Aldrich
Kenan Professor of Sociology, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
Susan Marlow
Editor, ISBJ, Nottingham University Business School
The conference is intended to aid the development of manuscripts for a
2014 Special Issue on Entrepreneurial Exit, International Small Business Journal (ISBJ)
and the
2014 Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit, Edward Elgar Publishing
We are accepting submissions to a focused research conference on entrepreneurial exit sponsored by the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Travel and lodging will be paid for in full by the Ratio institute for accepted papers.
As evidenced by its impact on the entrepreneur, the family, the firm, the industry, and society, entrepreneurial exit has emerged as a critical component of the entrepreneurial process and a distinctive domain of entrepreneurship researchers. Exit is complex because it is both multi-level and multi-faceted. It is multi-level in that exit can refer to exit of the founder or exit of the firm from the market or both. It is multi-faceted in that it can be applied to both low and high performing founders and firms and its impact on institutions varies depending upon the context.
Despite its importance, research in entrepreneurial exit is sparse compared to other components of the entrepreneurial process such as opportunity identification, new venture creation, or growth. Yet, exit is the culmination of all that the firm is and a reflection of previous goals, decisions, activities, and resources. Because of its wide-ranging impact, entrepreneurial exit research has the capacity to make significant contributions to leading theoretical perspectives including (but not limited to) population ecology, resource-based view, theory of planned behaviour, threshold theory, psychological ownership, and theories of leadership, change, affect, and cognition.
We welcome submissions from disciplinary oriented research in strategy, finance, accounting, sociology, psychology, organization theory, economic geography, etc., as well as interdisciplinary studies of entrepreneurial exit. Both conceptual and empirical work will be considered. Examples of themes, topics, and problems:
- The development of exit strategies and processes
- An examination of psychological / cognitive barriers to exit both internal and external to the firm
- Studies of founder succession
- International / comparative studies
- Studies which disentangle exit and failure
- An examination of the uniqueness of portfolio or habitual entrepreneurs
- Studies which examine exit differences among industries, countries, and cultures
- Understanding valuation from both seller's and acquirers' perspective
- The impact and implications of exit on institutions, philanthropic infrastructure or economic development
- Studies which explore unique methods and databases for studying entrepreneurial exit
Extended Conference submission deadline: July 10, 2013
If you wish to submit a conference paper, please email karl.wennberg@ratio.se listing "Entrepreneurial Exit 2013 Conference" as the subject heading of the email. Decision on conference submissions will be made by July 20th, 2013.
Informal enquiries on the research handbook and the special issue can be forward to Dawn DeTienne (Dawn.DeTienne@business.colostate.edu) or Karl Wennberg (karl.wennberg@ratio.se).