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AoM 2018 PDW - Entrepreneurship across the lifespan

  • 1.  AoM 2018 PDW - Entrepreneurship across the lifespan

    Posted 07-10-2018 14:59

    Please join our team for a Professional Development Workshop on 'Entrepreneurship across the Lifespan: Theories & Methods for Researching Age and Entrepreneurship'.

     

    Session Type: PDW Workshop
    Program Session: 287 | Submission: 12287 | Sponsor(s): (ENT, CAR)
    Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 11 2018 10:00AM - 12:00PM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Columbus KL

                                                                                                                       

    Organizer: Ute Stephan, Aston Business School
    Moderator: Moren Levesque, York U.
    Organizer: Michael Marcus Gielnik, Leuphana U. Lüneburg
    Organizer: Teemu Kautonen, Aalto U.
    Speaker: Stephan Alexander Boehm, U. of St. Gallen
    Speaker: Martin Hyde, Swansea U.
    Speaker: Ewald Kibler, Aalto U.
    Speaker: Maria Minniti, Syracuse U.
    Speaker: Martin Obschonka, Queensland U. of Technology
    Speaker: Simon Parker, Ivey Business School

     

    At a time when countries face significant shifts in their populations' age composition either towards aging or increasingly youthful societies, and aging populations have been identified as a grand societal challenge for management research, it is timely for entrepreneurship scholars to understand how entrepreneurship unfolds across the lifespan. Emerging evidence suggests that distinct drivers and processes underpin the entrepreneurial activity of both younger and older individuals. For instance, younger and older entrepreneurs face different societal expectations, stigmas and opportunity costs. They construct opportunities differently, pursue different motivations as well as face distinct physical and mental health challenges when pursuing entrepreneurship. This workshop seeks to engage entrepreneurship researchers with 'issues of age' and stimulate new research. Part one gives an overview of key theoretical approaches to studying age and how they have been or could be applied to entrepreneurship. It will be of particular interest for those who start out researching the age- entrepreneurship link and for those seeking to broaden their view through considering different disciplinary perspectives. In addition to presentations, small group brainstorming sessions will help participants to develop research ideas contrasting and exploring synergies of theoretical approaches. Part two will give participants an up-to-date understanding of the methodological tools available to studying the age-entrepreneurship link and highlight existing data sets. It contains impulse presentations by researchers with distinct methodological expertise, followed by guided discussions that facilitate applying those methodologies to participants' own research ideas/projects.

     

    We are looking forward to seeing many of you discuss with us on this timely topic.

     

    Moren Lévesque
    CPA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship
    Professor, Operations Management & Information Systems
    Schulich School of Business
    York University
    4700 Keele Street
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3

    Tel: +1 416 736 2100 ext 44591