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PDW celebrating 50 years of liabilities of newness and smallness research

  • 1.  PDW celebrating 50 years of liabilities of newness and smallness research

    Posted 06-01-2015 16:25

    Hello everyone,

     

    I wanted to bring the following PDW session at the upcoming Academy of Management meeting to your attention.  It should be of interest to those scholars interested in liabilities of newness and/or smallness, organizational imprinting, organizational legitimacy, and family business.

     

    In addition, Hans Landström and I are co-editing a special issue on these topics for Group and Organization Management.  We will be accepting papers for this special issue from June 30-August 31, 2015.  The call for papers is available at http://gom.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/New_Advantage.pdf.  If you are interested in submitting to or reviewing for this special issue, please let me know.

     

    Best regards,


    Franz Lohrke

     

    Program Session #: 378 | Submission: 13183 | Sponsor(s): (ENT, MH, OMT)
    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 8 2015 1:00PM - 3:00PM at Vancouver Convention Centre in Room 215

     

    50 Years of Liabilities of Newness Research: Assessing Progress and Exploring Future Research
    Liabilities of Newness

          

     
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    Organizer: Hans Landstrom; Lund U.;
    Organizer: Franz T. Lohrke; Brock School of Business, Samford U.;
    Presenter: András Tilcsik; U. of Toronto;
    Presenter: Howard E. Aldrich; U. of North Carolina;
    Presenter: Matthew W. Rutherford; Oklahoma State U.;
    Participant: Jeffrey M. Pollack; North Carolina State U.;
    Participant: Brian George Nagy; Tennessee Technological U.;
    Presenter: Kimberly Eddleston; Northeastern U.;
    Presenter: Lorraine M. Uhlaner; EDHEC Business School;
    Presenter: Erin Powell; Clemson U.;
    Presenter: Ted Baker; North Carolina State U.;

    In 2015, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stinchcombe's (1965) landmark work on the liabilities of newness (LoN). Over the past five decades, researchers have frequently employed the LoN framework in entrepreneurship and management research. In this PDW we will honor this seminal work, show the development and contributions of the LoN framework over time, and discuss its use in future entrepreneurship and management research. First, the PDW will celebrate Stinchcombe's contributions to the entrepreneurship field's development. Literature and bibliometric reviews of entrepreneurship research often cite Stinchcombe (1965) as a seminal contribution, informing research streams such as new venture survival, organizational legitimacy, and organizational imprinting. Several other foundational entrepreneurship and management studies (e.g., Aldrich & Fiol, 1994; Hannan & Freeman, 1984) have also built upon this work. Second, critical issues related to LoN have evolved over the past fifty years. Entrepreneurship studies continue to find support for LoN, but other perspectives have also developed. For example, some scholars have found that new ventures may actually enjoy strategic advantages (e.g., "assets of newness," Choi & Shepherd, 2005). In addition, entrepreneurs can now access resources needed to start a new venture via social media, cloud computing, 3D printing, and crowdfunding, suggesting a need to review LoN concepts in light of these advances. Third, LoN concepts continue to inform entrepreneurship and management research. Thus, after demonstrating applications to several current research streams, we will conclude with an open forum-discussion of future research that could employ the LoN framework.

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    Franz T. Lohrke

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    Entrepreneurship, Management & Marketing Department

     

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    Call for Papers – Special Issue at Group & Organization Management on Liabilities of Newness and Smallness examining how/whether these liabilities have changed, given technological advances such as crowd funding, social media, self-publishing, 3D printing, and others.

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