Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 479 | Submission: 12134 | Sponsor(s): (ENT)
Scheduled: Saturday, Aug 10 <g class="gr_ gr_27 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation replaceWithoutSep" id="27" data-gr-id="27">2019</g> <g class="gr_ gr_28 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace" id="28" data-gr-id="28">3:45PM</g> - <g class="gr_ gr_29 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace" id="29" data-gr-id="29">5:45PM</g> at Boston Marriott Copley Place in Grand Ballroom Salon IJK |
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Escaping Schumpeter's Shadow: The Power of Contextualization in the Rigor-Relevance Debate
Contextualization & The Rigor-Relevance Debate |
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Organizer: Sophie Catherine Bacq, Indiana U. - Kelley School of Business
Organizer: David Matthew Townsend, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.
Panelist: Dean Shepherd, U. of Notre Dame
Panelist: G. T. Lumpkin, U. of Oklahoma
Panelist: Friederike Welter, IfM Bonn / U. of Siegen
Panelist: Ted Baker, Rutgers U.
Panelist: Richard Hunt, Virginia Tech
Panelist: William B. Gartner, Babson College |
| In recent years, the field of entrepreneurship has made significant strides towards the goal of enhancing the theoretical and methodological rigor of entrepreneurship research, a step many scholars believe is critical in enhancing the scientific legitimacy of the field. These gains in rigor come at a price as contemporary scholarship adopts a decontextualized and narrow focus on high-growth, high-tech ventures operated largely in urban contexts. Unfortunately, this research tends to ignore alternative innovation pathways or models of organizing emerging in contexts outside of what is increasingly considered the mainstream of the field of entrepreneurship. Yet in parallel, there is a growing awareness that the contextualization of entrepreneurship research in diverse settings generates remarkable insights into the adaptability of entrepreneurial actors, alternative approaches to innovation and change, and the diversity of organizing activities outside of the mainstream of the field. The purpose of this PDW is to build on this growing stream of research advocating for the contextualization of entrepreneurship research in light of the rigor-relevance debate in the field. To guide these discussions, we are convening a panel of experts who will outline emerging entrepreneurship research streams in non-traditional contexts. The goal of these discussions is to highlight how contextualization generates new insights for established and emerging theories, providing fresh perspectives that enable the field to transcend the opposition between rigor and relevance. |
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David Townsend
Blacksburg VA
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