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Please consider joining us in Knoxville for a one-day workshop on Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in Behavioral Strategy and Entrepreneurship on September 27. The workshop will be small (less than 40 attendees), so space is limited!

Although the workshop is in conjunction with the SMS Conference in Atlanta, it is open to both SMS members and non-SMS members, and you do not have to be attending the SMS conference to attend the workshop.

We have a great set of speakers and panelists lined up including Joe Porac, Mike Pfarrer, Rhonda Reger, Anne Smith, Bev Tyler, Chris Bingham, and Dan Forbes.

Workshop Summary:

As part of our efforts to build a vibrant community of behavioral strategy scholars, our goal for this workshop is to focus attention on methods and theories that advance understanding about how human cognition, emotion, and social interaction influence strategic management theory and practice. Just as the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group at SMS welcomes research from many methodological traditions, from the quantitative (experiments, mathematical modeling, simulations, statistical field studies, brain imaging) to the qualitative (grounded theory, ethnography, textual analysis), this workshop seeks to expose participants to a variety of methods and theoretical traditions that underpin behavioral strategy and entrepreneurship research.

This workshop should be of interest to strategy and entrepreneurship scholars who ask questions such as:

·         What are the psychological underpinnings of the leading theories in strategic management?

·         How do individual cognition and behavior scale to collective behavior in firms?

·         Can an improved "psychological architecture of the firm" lead to competitive advantage?

Topic areas of research include:

·         Bounded rationality in competitive markets

·         Cognition and decision making; cognitive biases and heuristics

·         Cognitive schema and management perception

·         Individual and collective beliefs and ideologies

·         Prospect theory, reference points, and risk-taking

·         Emotions, motivations, personalities, and pathologies

·         The psychology of bargaining and organizational politics

·         Anomalies in strategic learning

·         The social psychology of group decision making

While a one-day workshop cannot possibly introduce all of these topics and perspectives, we plan to help scholars open the possibilities to study behavioral strategy and entrepreneurship.

Full details are available here: http://atlanta.strategicmanagement.net/extensions/knoxville.php

Registration is required (US$ 105 per participant, US$ 85 for SMS members): http://atlanta.strategicmanagement.net/registration/extensions.php

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David W. Williams, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

The University of Tennessee

College of Business Administration

Department of Management

416 Stokely Management Center

916 Volunteer Boulevard

Knoxville, TN 37996-0545

(p): 865-974-1666

(f): 865-974-2048

(e): dww@utk.edu