We cordially invite you to join our PDW on "What's Holding Back Social Entrepreneurship? Removing the Impediments of Theoretical Advancement" as a participant or a presenter!
If you want to participate please take the chance to pre-register. And if you want to present your ideas on how to remove the impediments of theoretical advancement in the field please consider the "Call for Input presentations" below. Also, we plan to publish a paper - together will all selected presenters - that is based on the contributions presented in the workshop.
Best regards,
Susan Mueller, Bob D'Intino, Jennifer Walske
CALL FOR INPUT PRESENTATIONS
PDW on "What's Holding Back Social Entrepreneurship?
Removing the Impediments of Theoretical Advancement" (#16437)
Academy of Management 2013, Friday, Aug 9 2013 12:30PM - 3:00PM at WDW Swan Resort in Swan 9
http://program.aomonline.org/2013/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=16437
We invite scholars in the field of social entrepreneurship and neighboring fields to participate in this workshop by delivering a presentation about the developments, prejudices, paradigms or omissions currently holding back the theoretical advancement of social entrepreneurship research. This includes suggestions on how to further develop theories applicable to social enterprises. The presentation should include an introduction of the topic, an explanation of the respective impediments to theoretical development, and an idea for how to improve the current situation.
Submission process: Please submit a short abstract about the proposed presentation (300 words max). The deadline for the abstract is June 30, 2013. We will select three topics from among these submissions and ask the authors to prepare a 10-minutes presentation, to be submitted by August 5. Please do not prepare a presentation before we inform you that we have selected your topic. Send the abstracts to susan.mueller@ebs.edu. We will notify all researchers by July 7, 2013 as to whether or not they have been chosen to be presenters.
Selection criteria: Selection of presentations will be based on the submission's ingenuity, specifically with regard to how the idea will advance theoretical development within the field of social entrepreneurship.
Abstract of the workshop: Social entrepreneurship is a dynamic field of research. However, the field is still in a pre-paradigmatic state (Nicholls, 2010) with little scholarly output appearing in the mainstream entrepreneurship and management journals (Short et al., 2009). Researchers have already suggested potential hurdles that might hold back the theoretical advancement of the field, including having no common definition for social entrepreneurship (Brock and Steiner, 2008), a lack of rigorous research (Short et al., 2009), and the use of monological narration (Dey and Steyeart, 2010).
The key idea of this workshop is discovering how to remove impediments that are currently limiting the theoretical development of the field and discuss new theories and theoretical combinations. Selected scholars will be invited to present their ideas for new theories. This will be followed by small group discussions that explore potential ways to improve social entrepreneurship research.
We aim to organize a thought-provoking and interactive workshop that will inspire social entrepreneurship researchers and academics from neighboring disciplines to develop the field of social entrepreneurship by "liberating" the field of some conceptual impediments.