MODELS OF START-UP THINKING AND ACTION

Theoretical, Empirical, & Pedagogical Approaches

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Manuscripts Due: September 30, 2015

Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College and Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University

At the core of entrepreneurship pedagogy and research has been a belief that thinking about a prospective business in advance of starting it would be beneficial. The earliest efforts involved applying the wisdom of agricultural science to 19^th century farms in the USA and Europe. These lessons transitioned to small businesses in other industries, most often tied to the methods called feasibility studies and business plans.

Today there is unprecedented focus on new ways to think about business start-ups both as planning techniques and patterns of structured action. Whether effectuation or bricolage, the lean start-up process or design thinking, rapid prototyping or failing forward approaches, incubators or co-working spaces, startup weekends or startup accelerators, there are more ways for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship researchers to think through and pursue the start-up process than at any time in history. Ours is the era of the start-up technique.

As inspiring and energizing as these many efforts are, research and conceptualizing of these approaches can only trail these emerging efforts. Yet, the power and fit of these different approaches will become increasingly important as business, investment, civic, NGO, developmental, and government organizations seek to pair the most effective techniques with the opportunity sets particular to their situations. Likewise, academic and policy researchers will seek to understand and explain the similarities and differences in these myriad approaches, and with that understanding come to refine and expand the types of start-up approaches known today and under development for tomorrow.

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, psychology, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or make a contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered.  We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.  A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:

Ø  Measuring the effectiveness of start-up methodologies like lean start-up, bricolage, etc.

Ø  Assessments or conceptualizations of the applicability of different start-up methods across industries

Ø  Comparisons of lean start-up methodologies and feasibility studies

Ø  What makes different start-up approaches attractive to particular types of entrepreneurs

Ø  Incubator models that account for accelerators and co-working spaces

Ø  Conceptually driven assessments and even comparisons of highly-structured methods (I-Corps, FastTrack) and more free-form approaches (lean start-up, effectuation, bricolage)

Ø  How technology and our connectedness allows for rapid marketing testing and learning at relative low cost

Ø  Regional effects such that some investors prefer business plans where others prefer pitch decks

Ø  Empirical work on what makes an effective business model, pitch deck, business plan or data room

Ø  Pedagogical methods that demonstrate advanced approaches to start up thinking

Ø  The conceptual underpinnings of practice based models

Ø  How planning processes get institutionalized over time, e.g. feasibility studies that rely on library data at the expense of direct customer contact

Ø  The social networking and information impacts of entrepreneurs in co-working spaces

Ø  Comparisons of expert-based and peer-based mentoring approaches

Ø  Seeding entrepreneurial thinking in non-business disciplines

Ø  Sequencing design thinking within different start-up approaches

Ø  Information analysis of traditional and emerging contemporary models for business plans

Ø  Theoretical development that explains and explores the linkages between emerging start-up models and existing theories

Ø  Conceptual approaches to develop new theories about business planning or other start-up methods.

The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competences of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience.

Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers.  Please contact the editors:  Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu or Jerome Katz, katzja@slu.edu.

Andrew- maybe send to Division Chairs and to some EPS faculty?

MODELS OF START-UP THINKING AND ACTION

Theoretical, Empirical, & Pedagogical Approaches

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Manuscripts Due: September 30, 2015

Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College and Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University

At the core of entrepreneurship pedagogy and research has been a belief that thinking about a prospective business in advance of starting it would be beneficial. The earliest efforts involved applying the wisdom of agricultural science to 19^th century farms in the USA and Europe. These lessons transitioned to small businesses in other industries, most often tied to the methods called feasibility studies and business plans.

Today there is unprecedented focus on new ways to think about business start-ups both as planning techniques and patterns of structured action. Whether effectuation or bricolage, the lean start-up process or design thinking, rapid prototyping or failing forward approaches, incubators or co-working spaces, startup weekends or startup accelerators, there are more ways for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship researchers to think through and pursue the start-up process than at any time in history. Ours is the era of the start-up technique.

As inspiring and energizing as these many efforts are, research and conceptualizing of these approaches can only trail these emerging efforts. Yet, the power and fit of these different approaches will become increasingly important as business, investment, civic, NGO, developmental, and government organizations seek to pair the most effective techniques with the opportunity sets particular to their situations. Likewise, academic and policy researchers will seek to understand and explain the similarities and differences in these myriad approaches, and with that understanding come to refine and expand the types of start-up approaches known today and under development for tomorrow.

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, psychology, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or make a contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered.  We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.  A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:

Ø  Measuring the effectiveness of start-up methodologies like lean start-up, bricolage, etc.

Ø  Assessments or conceptualizations of the applicability of different start-up methods across industries

Ø  Comparisons of lean start-up methodologies and feasibility studies

Ø  What makes different start-up approaches attractive to particular types of entrepreneurs

Ø  Incubator models that account for accelerators and co-working spaces

Ø  Conceptually driven assessments and even comparisons of highly-structured methods (I-Corps, FastTrack) and more free-form approaches (lean start-up, effectuation, bricolage)

Ø  How technology and our connectedness allows for rapid marketing testing and learning at relative low cost

Ø  Regional effects such that some investors prefer business plans where others prefer pitch decks

Ø  Empirical work on what makes an effective business model, pitch deck, business plan or data room

Ø  Pedagogical methods that demonstrate advanced approaches to start up thinking

Ø  The conceptual underpinnings of practice based models

Ø  How planning processes get institutionalized over time, e.g. feasibility studies that rely on library data at the expense of direct customer contact

Ø  The social networking and information impacts of entrepreneurs in co-working spaces

Ø  Comparisons of expert-based and peer-based mentoring approaches

Ø  Seeding entrepreneurial thinking in non-business disciplines

Ø  Sequencing design thinking within different start-up approaches

Ø  Information analysis of traditional and emerging contemporary models for business plans

Ø  Theoretical development that explains and explores the linkages between emerging start-up models and existing theories

Ø  Conceptual approaches to develop new theories about business planning or other start-up methods.

The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competences of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience.

Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers.  Please contact the editors:  Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu or Jerome Katz, katzja@slu.edu.

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Will do. 

Andrew- maybe send to Division Chairs and to some EPS faculty?

MODELS OF START-UP THINKING AND ACTION

Theoretical, Empirical, & Pedagogical Approaches

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Manuscripts Due: September 30, 2015

Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College and Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University

At the core of entrepreneurship pedagogy and research has been a belief that thinking about a prospective business in advance of starting it would be beneficial. The earliest efforts involved applying the wisdom of agricultural science to 19^th century farms in the USA and Europe. These lessons transitioned to small businesses in other industries, most often tied to the methods called feasibility studies and business plans.

Today there is unprecedented focus on new ways to think about business start-ups both as planning techniques and patterns of structured action. Whether effectuation or bricolage, the lean start-up process or design thinking, rapid prototyping or failing forward approaches, incubators or co-working spaces, startup weekends or startup accelerators, there are more ways for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship researchers to think through and pursue the start-up process than at any time in history. Ours is the era of the start-up technique.

As inspiring and energizing as these many efforts are, research and conceptualizing of these approaches can only trail these emerging efforts. Yet, the power and fit of these different approaches will become increasingly important as business, investment, civic, NGO, developmental, and government organizations seek to pair the most effective techniques with the opportunity sets particular to their situations. Likewise, academic and policy researchers will seek to understand and explain the similarities and differences in these myriad approaches, and with that understanding come to refine and expand the types of start-up approaches known today and under development for tomorrow.

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, psychology, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or make a contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered.  We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.  A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:

Ø  Measuring the effectiveness of start-up methodologies like lean start-up, bricolage, etc.

Ø  Assessments or conceptualizations of the applicability of different start-up methods across industries

Ø  Comparisons of lean start-up methodologies and feasibility studies

Ø  What makes different start-up approaches attractive to particular types of entrepreneurs

Ø  Incubator models that account for accelerators and co-working spaces

Ø  Conceptually driven assessments and even comparisons of highly-structured methods (I-Corps, FastTrack) and more free-form approaches (lean start-up, effectuation, bricolage)

Ø  How technology and our connectedness allows for rapid marketing testing and learning at relative low cost

Ø  Regional effects such that some investors prefer business plans where others prefer pitch decks

Ø  Empirical work on what makes an effective business model, pitch deck, business plan or data room

Ø  Pedagogical methods that demonstrate advanced approaches to start up thinking

Ø  The conceptual underpinnings of practice based models

Ø  How planning processes get institutionalized over time, e.g. feasibility studies that rely on library data at the expense of direct customer contact

Ø  The social networking and information impacts of entrepreneurs in co-working spaces

Ø  Comparisons of expert-based and peer-based mentoring approaches

Ø  Seeding entrepreneurial thinking in non-business disciplines

Ø  Sequencing design thinking within different start-up approaches

Ø  Information analysis of traditional and emerging contemporary models for business plans

Ø  Theoretical development that explains and explores the linkages between emerging start-up models and existing theories

Ø  Conceptual approaches to develop new theories about business planning or other start-up methods.

The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competences of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience.

Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers.  Please contact the editors:  Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu or Jerome Katz, katzja@slu.edu.

************************************** This message is from ENTREP which is sponsored by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Please do not post messages with attached files. Commercial messages or spammed messages are not allowed on the list. The use of auto-responder "out-of-office" messages may also lead to your removal from the list. You can manage your subscription options, including joining or leaving the list here: http://aomlists.pace.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=entrep&A=1 If you have questions or need help, please contact Dr. John Bunch jbunch@benedictine.edu. Ventures HO!

MODELS OF START-UP THINKING AND ACTION

Theoretical, Empirical, & Pedagogical Approaches

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Manuscripts Due: September 30, 2015

Editors: Andrew C. Corbett, Babson College and Jerome A. Katz, Saint Louis University

At the core of entrepreneurship pedagogy and research has been a belief that thinking about a prospective business in advance of starting it would be beneficial. The earliest efforts involved applying the wisdom of agricultural science to 19^th century farms in the USA and Europe. These lessons transitioned to small businesses in other industries, most often tied to the methods called feasibility studies and business plans.

Today there is unprecedented focus on new ways to think about business start-ups both as planning techniques and patterns of structured action. Whether effectuation or bricolage, the lean start-up process or design thinking, rapid prototyping or failing forward approaches, incubators or co-working spaces, startup weekends or startup accelerators, there are more ways for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship researchers to think through and pursue the start-up process than at any time in history. Ours is the era of the start-up technique.

As inspiring and energizing as these many efforts are, research and conceptualizing of these approaches can only trail these emerging efforts. Yet, the power and fit of these different approaches will become increasingly important as business, investment, civic, NGO, developmental, and government organizations seek to pair the most effective techniques with the opportunity sets particular to their situations. Likewise, academic and policy researchers will seek to understand and explain the similarities and differences in these myriad approaches, and with that understanding come to refine and expand the types of start-up approaches known today and under development for tomorrow.

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, psychology, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or make a contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.

Volume 18 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth will focus on approaches to thinking about and creating the start-up. Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider all aspects of start-up planning, thinking and action will be considered.  We also encourage practice-based research and manuscripts that explore cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.  A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:

Ø  Measuring the effectiveness of start-up methodologies like lean start-up, bricolage, etc.

Ø  Assessments or conceptualizations of the applicability of different start-up methods across industries

Ø  Comparisons of lean start-up methodologies and feasibility studies

Ø  What makes different start-up approaches attractive to particular types of entrepreneurs

Ø  Incubator models that account for accelerators and co-working spaces

Ø  Conceptually driven assessments and even comparisons of highly-structured methods (I-Corps, FastTrack) and more free-form approaches (lean start-up, effectuation, bricolage)

Ø  How technology and our connectedness allows for rapid marketing testing and learning at relative low cost

Ø  Regional effects such that some investors prefer business plans where others prefer pitch decks

Ø  Empirical work on what makes an effective business model, pitch deck, business plan or data room

Ø  Pedagogical methods that demonstrate advanced approaches to start up thinking

Ø  The conceptual underpinnings of practice based models

Ø  How planning processes get institutionalized over time, e.g. feasibility studies that rely on library data at the expense of direct customer contact

Ø  The social networking and information impacts of entrepreneurs in co-working spaces

Ø  Comparisons of expert-based and peer-based mentoring approaches

Ø  Seeding entrepreneurial thinking in non-business disciplines

Ø  Sequencing design thinking within different start-up approaches

Ø  Information analysis of traditional and emerging contemporary models for business plans

Ø  Theoretical development that explains and explores the linkages between emerging start-up models and existing theories

Ø  Conceptual approaches to develop new theories about business planning or other start-up methods.

The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. One of the distinctive competences of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience.

Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers.  Please contact the editors:  Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu or Jerome Katz, katzja@slu.edu.