CALLS FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS The 74th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management will be held August 1-5, 2014, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Submission Deadline: January 14, 2014 The 2014 Theme encourages us to consider the effect of words - our words and others' - on individuals, teams, organizations nations or even global systems. Words -- in the broad way I am using the term here -- can take the form of spoken utterances, written text, or symbols. The 42nd Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada: Organizational Theory Division will be held May 9th-13th, 2014, in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014 ASAC 2014 invites you to submit and review a manuscript or symposium proposal for its 42nd annual conference. The conference theme, Sustainability and Innovation in Work and Leisure is an opportunity to examine and discuss issues and phenomena about change and the ecological, social and economic impacts on our workspaces and society. Small Business Economics Special issue on: 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in the New Global Economic Reality' Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014 Editors: Dr. Donald F. Kuratko, Indiana University Dr. Jeffrey S. Hornsby, University of Missouri-Kansas City Dr. James Hayton, Warwick Business School The worldwide economic downturn that began in 2008 represented a strategic game changer for most organizations. Severe resource constraints and unpredictable market conditions created significant challenges for organizational survival, let alone growth through innovation and venturing activities. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Special issue on: 'Theories of entrepreneurship' Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014 Editors: Sharon Alvarez, Ohio State University, United States David Audretsch, Indiana University, United States Albert Link, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States As the field of entrepreneurship has matured, research in entrepreneurship has evolved from studying the phenomena of entrepreneurship, to adopting theory from other fields, to developing new theories of entrepreneurial behavior. Along with the increase in the scholarly study of entrepreneurship has come a broader interest in entrepreneurship by scholars in other disciplines such as strategic management, economics, social-psychology, organizational theory, and so forth. (Click here for more information) International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Special Issue on: 'Entrepreneurship and Piracy' Submission Deadline: January 20, 2014 Editor: Steffen Roth, ESC Rennes School of Business Within the tension zone of these two contradicting perspectives, the question of whether particular individuals or groups are pirates or entrepreneurs is as hard to answer today as it has always been throughout the entire history of the concept.( Click here for more information) Special issue on: 'Exploring Entrepreneurial Activity in Context' Submission Deadline: February 15, 2014 There is growing recognition that entrepreneurial activity can be better understood within its context. Entrepreneurship as a phenomenon has been shown to be highly embedded in a range of social, economic, institutional, spatial and cultural contexts. (Click here for more information) Applied Psychology: An International Review Special Issue on: 'Advances in the Psychology of Entrepreneurship' Submission Deadline: August 31, 2014 Editors: Marjan J. Gorgievski, Erasmus University Rotterdam Ute Stephan, Aston Business School Psychology can make important contributions to our understanding of entrepreneurship. In turn, entrepreneurship provides an important context within which to push the boundaries of psychological theories, as well as to develop new theoretical frameworks. (Click here for more information) Strategic Management Journal Special Issue on: 'Replication in Strategic Management' Submission Deadline: October 1, 2014 Editors: Richard A. Bettis, University of North Carolina Connie Helfat, Dartmouth College J. Myles Shaver, University of Minnesota Reproducibility of results lies at the core of modern science. It is vital to building a cumulative body of thought that is reliable. Yet journals relevant to strategic management do not publish replication studies. (Click here for more information) Strategic Management Journal Special Issue on: 'New Theory in Strategic Management' Submission Deadline: November 1, 2014 Editors: Jay B. Barney, University of Utah Richard M. Burton, Duke University Donald C. Hambrick, Pennsylvania State University Richard Makadok, Emory University Edward J. Zajac, Northwestern University As Strategic Management has continued to evolve and grow as a field, its research base has become predominantly empirical. Quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, which typically include deductive or inductive hypotheses, have grown in absolute and relative terms when compared with purely theoretical contributions. (Click here for more information) Entrepreneurship & Regional Development Special Issue on: 'The Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship: Questioning the status quo and Re-gaining hope for entrepreneurship research' Submission Deadline: June 30, 2014 Editors: Alain Fayolle, Emlyon Business School Philippe Riot, Emlyon Business School Hans Landström, Lund University School of Economics Karin Berglund, Stockholm University School of Business William B. Gartner, California Lutheran University Entrepreneurship has become a conceptual hallmark of the past thirty years, having gained incredible traction in policy-making, organisational life, and in society more generally. During this period entrepreneurship research has grown remarkably and is today a scholarly field with its own chairs, positions, scientific journals and conferences. Yet, entrepreneurship is also a multidisciplinary field having attracted researchers in, for example, economics, sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and management. In line with these multidisciplinary academic interests, entrepreneurship has... (Click here for more information)
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