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Dear Colleagues

To follow on my earlier announcement, when you register for the symposium, you have to first be registered for the Meeting, and then use the code: PDWE4U07

Thanks again for your interest

Phil

Dear Colleagues

As you plan your schedule for the 2016 Academy of Management Meetings, we would like to invite you to an Academy of Management Perspectives Showcase Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Mental Health, entitled, 'Underdogs, Misfits and Weirdos'. This is part of a continuing conversation, started 2 years ago, on the biology of entrepreneurial behaviors.

The PDW is scheduled for Friday, 5th of August,  9:45 AM - 11:45 AM at the Hilton Anaheim, Avila AB

Registration is required, so we can plan the room to optimize discussion.  Please go to:  http://pd.aom.org/2016/Session_Details.asp?print=true&SubmissionID=10711

Abstract

A recent study found that 49% of entrepreneurs studied suffered from at least one mental health condition, and nearly a third reported having two or more mental health issues, like ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety or substance abuse conditions (Johnson, Freeman, & Staudenmaier, 2015). This PDW advocates a focus on mental health conditions as a means of developing novel insights and theories in entrepreneurship. With very few exceptions, research in entrepreneurship has focused on the positives of entrepreneurs, irrespectively of theories applied, concepts used, or phenomena studied. Thus, theorizing and findings related to the motivation, action, and success of entrepreneurs tend to overlap with theorizing and findings related to the motivation, action and success of people in other walks of life. In this sense, entrepreneurship traditionally provides a context for unfolding positive affect, cognition, and behavior rather than a kaleidoscopic arena for leveraging special characteristics that are potentially dysfunctional in conventional workplaces. The very characteristics of mental health conditions that make it hard to work in a conventional workplace may actually provide advantages in an entrepreneurial setting. We want to foster discussion that serves as the starting point for this novel approach to the study and theorizing about entrepreneurs and to inspire scholars to pursue new research avenues at the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health conditions.

Thank you in advance for your interest.

Dimo Dimov, Isabella Hatak, Phillip Phan, and Johan Wicklund

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