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