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This year, the Research Committee of the Entrepreneurship Division will sponsor two PDWs at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. This message announces a PDW of interest to any researcher curious about datasets available for entrepreneurship studies. 

Program Session # 252, "Entrepreneurship Data Sets: Making Better Choices for Your Research," co-sponsored by the BPS and OB Divisions, will take place on Saturday, August 10, 2013 from 9:30am to 12:00pm at the Walt Disney World Swan Resort in Pelican 1. 

Research Committee-sponsored sessions are typically well-attended and always generate lively discussion. We urge you to participate in this PDW, and, as suggested below, to submit questions beforehand that you want to encourage the presenters to address.

PDW Description: This PDW will provide an interactive forum for the critical examination of four of the primary entrepreneurship datasets available to researchers: The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) and the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS). First, four scholars with expertise in these datasets will provide insights into not only the strengths of the data, but also into issues and problems that researchers have encountered in their use. Next, this will be followed by a discussion of questions and issues raised by other participants in the PDW (some of which will have been collected in advance). This session will provide researchers – ranging from doctoral students to senior scholars – a better and more nuanced understanding of whether and how the questions that interest them might be explored effectively using these data. The session will also provide a brief introduction to several other publicly available datasets of interest to entrepreneurship scholars.

This PDW will help researchers, both new and seasoned to make better choices about when and how to use publicly available entrepreneurship datasets.

The session has been organized by Erin Powell and Ted Baker and will be facilitated by Phil Kim of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  It will be structured around brief presentations followed by extensive discussion between the presenters and members of the audience.

The presenters include:

Tiantian Yang; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Per Davidsson; Queensland University of Technology

Donna Kelley; Babson College

Alicia Robb; Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

We will look forward to seeing you there.