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Facilitator: Dimo Dimov; U. of Bath;
Presenter: Ted Baker; North Carolina State U. (Rutgers U.);
Presenter: Per L. Bylund; Baylor U.;
Presenter: G. Christopher Crawford; Ohio U.;
Presenter: Greg Fisher; Indiana U.;
Presenter: Denise Fletcher; U. Luxembourg;
Presenter: Benyamin Lichtenstein; U. of Massachusetts Boston;
Presenter: Jeffery S. McMullen; Indiana U., Bloomington;
Presenter: Erin Powell; Clemson U.;
Presenter: Marilyn A. Uy; Nanyang Technological U., Singapore;
Organizer: H Shawna Chen; Texas Tech U. (Brock U.);
Explanation of entrepreneurship requires resolution of a tension between prospective opaqueness and retrospective clarity: the actuality of what happens is but a subset of a seemingly unbounded set of what is possible. Although entrepreneurship is invariably described as a process, the process is has typically been conceptualized as fixed entity and its outcomes as necessities (Langley et al., 2013). This has created several roadblocks that have prevented the full flourishing of the concept of process as a sequence of non-linear events or activities describing change over time (McMullen & Dimov, 2013). Tentative Agenda: Introduce concepts and perspectives >> Showcase methodologies >> Discuss and network for collaboration! Building on the success of last year's PDW, "Embracing Process in Entrepreneurship Research", this PDW aims to address the roadblocks and offers various perspectives and specific methodologies on studying entrepreneurship as a process. Ten scholars experienced in publishing process research in top journals will first introduce concepts (e.g., temporality, recursivity, power law distributions) and methodologies (e.g., agent-based simulation, alternative templates, experience sampling method, grounded theory, Pareto sampling, visual mapping). These scholars will also discuss the opportunities and challenges as well as the hindrances and rewards of process research. To ensure interaction among participants, a panel discussion will follow where the audience will submit specific research questions of interest or particular issues of inquiry to stimulate conversations. The insights generated will be valuable for both doctoral students and established scholars who are curious about the explanatory potential process research may offer and are considering venturing into these rich new areas of entrepreneurship research. Due to time constraint of the session, presenters may take only limited number of questions. We highly encourage participants to submit questions and inquiries ahead of time to entprocess@gmail.com. |