We are excited to invite submissions of extended abstracts for our PDW at the AOM 2026 in Philadelphia - Entrepreneurship in the Age of AI: A Balanced Perspective on Individual Opportunities and Threats.
This PDW brings together leading scholars of the field to discuss how AI is reconfiguring entrepreneurship, highlighting both opportunities and threats for individuals and organizations. We invite research-in-progress from peers working on AI, entrepreneurship, and related domains. You will receive expert feedback from our panelists in the PDW.
Format: In person
Description:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing entrepreneurship by reshaping how individuals identify opportunities, make decisions, and build their entrepreneurial identities. While research has begun to explore how AI affects firms and entrepreneurial ecosystems, we still know comparatively little about how these developments influence the individual entrepreneur. Yet the individual level is where AI most directly interacts with human thinking, feeling, and acting. AI can create important opportunities for entrepreneurs, such that it can support opportunity recognition, reduce uncertainty, improve decision-making, and lower barriers for those who want to start and grow a business. At the same time, scholars are increasingly pointing to threats that come with the use of intelligent technologies. AI may undermine intrinsic motivation, weaken the sense of ownership and identity, and create ethical questions when AI influences or even takes over entrepreneurial choices. However, current research typically examines either the opportunities or the threats of AI in isolation.
This PDW addresses this gap by asking a central guiding question: How can entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners leverage the opportunities of AI while simultaneously mitigating and managing its associated individual-level threats? The goal of the PDW is to bring both perspectives together in one integrated conversation. The PDW follows a two-part structure: The first half includes presentations and a panel discussion, while the second half is dedicated to roundtables where participants who submitted abstracts can receive feedback on their work.
Participating experts:
- Judy Rady
- Dafna Kariv
- David Audretsch
- Maksim Belitski
- Moren Levesque
We look forward to your exciting work. Even if you cannot submit an extended abstract, we would still love to welcome you in the first part of the PDW. See you in Philadelphia!
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Diana Lauer
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Vienna AT
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