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Apologies to Per and Norris for the delay in getting their announcement out.
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Dear John,
On April 8 I sent the below call to
ENTREP@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU. I do not
think it has been posted -- at least I have not seen it, nor have I
received any responses to the call.
Can you please check if it was lost in cyberspace or if the contents
breaks with some rule so that it cannot be posted. If it is 'eligible' can
you please post it asap?
Best Regards,
Per
Per Davidsson
Professor in Entrepreneurship
Brisbane Graduate School of Business
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane
4001 Queensland
Australia
Ph: +617 3138 2051
Fax: +617 3138 1299
email:
per.davidsson@qut.edu.au
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Dear colleagues,
We â Per Davidsson and Norris Krueger â are exploring the possibility
of compiling and publishing a volume of âLost Treasures in
Entrepreneurship Researchâ. That is, we would like to highlight and
bring to (new) life some of those scholarly works that for whatever reason
have not yet received the attention they deserve considering their quality
and importance. We have secured preliminary interest from a leading
publisher in bringing such a volume to the market.
How many of you have used Alex DeNoble & Sandy Ehrlich's scale for
entrepreneurial self-efficacy? Dozens of studies use that scale from a
1999 Babson paper that.... they could never get published. (We both have
conference papers that people cite repeatedly yet remain unpublished - all
of this really piqued our curiosity. What else is out there?) Other
academic fields often do a better job of surfacing their âlost
treasures.â
We now seek your nominations for works to include.
What we have in mind are:
1. Important, high-quality works that never got published because the
authors left academe; did not themselves understand the significance of
their work or its significance has only been revealed later on; got sucked
into other projects; were fed up with rejections from overly conservative
outlets and would not put it in a lesser one, or just did not care (it is
not the case that everybody everywhere has always operated under the
current, North-American publish-or-perish regime). Or did it just get
deemed too âold and staleâ?
2. Important, high-quality works that got published in âlesserâ
outlets because the authors were too modest or unaware of the journal
hierarchy; because the authors were not able to âpackageâ their
excellent data and/or interesting results very well thus failing to
explicate the rather obvious and important theoretical implications; or
because the work was too radical; poorly timed or just a case of random
bad luck with the better outlets; maybe they could not figure out how to
position the paper. Maybe it was a voice that people were not ready to
hear.
3. Important, high-quality works that were both well-packaged and
published in quite decent outlets, but of a kind that most of the
entrepreneurship community would not find in the less digitalised world we
lived in until recently. There are a lot of edited volumes out there that
few of us have read. Alternatively, they were published at a time when the
âconversationâ it engages was non-existent or at a low.
4. As a special note â think about papers that prove the worth of
important theory that the field has still been slow to embrace (again a
voice that needs to be heard). Think about works that offered us some
great methodology (like Alex & Sandy did) but that have not been widely
recognized.
If this rings a bell we would like you to nominate the paper or article in
question for possible inclusion. However, before you all rush out to
nominate thousands of papers we would like to caution that we share the
belief that USUALLY a paper is unpublished or âpoorly publishedâ
because it has some fatal flaws and/or in reality does not make much of a
contribution. So be selective, please! (But we do want to hear from
you....)
If and when you nominate, please also include some rationale and
âevidenceâ â e.g., an unusual number of citations for an unpublished
paper; evidence that the work preceded and/or in some respect is
âbetterâ than the later paper on the same topic that âgets all the
citesâ; evidence that the work had critically important influence on
later, well-cited work, or the like. ALWAYS include a line or two,
preferably verifiable, on how you personally have used the nominated work
in your scholarship.
We've all got our own favorite âhidden gemâ that we cite - time to
share yours with the field!
Please send your well-considered nominations to:
per.davidsson@qut.edu.au AND
norris.krueger@gmail.com
Best Regards,
Per & Norris
p.s. Self-nominations are acceptable, but if you've got something that
others are citing, ask them to also nominate it.
Per Davidsson
Professor in Entrepreneurship
Brisbane Graduate School of Business
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane
4001 Queensland
Australia
Ph: +617 3138 2051
Fax: +617 3138 1299
email:
per.davidsson@qut.edu.au Australia's first MBA with the 'triple crown' of accreditation
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