Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to invite you to our symposium at this year's AOM Annual Meeting in Chicago:
"[1799] Emergence and Growth Strategy of Entrepreneurial Firms: Evidence Based on Large-Scale Data"
Time: Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 8:00-9:30 CT
Location: Hyatt Regency; Room-Michigan 3 (Concourse Level, East Tower)
Presentations:
Innessa Colaiacovo, Daniel Gross, Jorge Guzman "The Composition and Dynamics of Technology-Enabled Entrepreneurship"
Aaron Chatterji, Sharique Hasan and Dror Shvadron "Opinion is Cheaper than Facts: How New Entrants Have Shaped the Business of Political News"
Beril Yalcinkaya, Waverly W. Ding, Anil K. Gupta "The Effect of Commercial, Regulatory, and Sociocultural Pressures on Hiring Strategies post-IPO"
J. Daniel Kim, Michael Pergler "Startup Hiring through Firm-Driven Search: Evidence from Venture for America"
Abstract of our symposium: Entrepreneurial firms have long been hailed as the force that stimulates innovations, employment, and economic growth writ large. For these reasons, organization and entrepreneurship scholars have long been interested in the growth of technology firms. Considerable research over the past two decades has drawn scholarly attention to issues relating to how entrepreneurial firms emerge and grow their capabilities through specific organizational structure and processes, which have been found to exert enduring influences on subsequent organizational development. More recently, an emerging body of research has sought to understand the growth and strategy of young firms' organizational capabilities by examining their human capital growth as well as their strategic moves. In recent years, novel, large-scale, longitudinal datasets have emerged that enabled researchers to adequately track firms' historical growth trajectories beyond what small hand-collected samples of entrepreneurial firms can reveal. This symposium intends to gather a group of papers that have leveraged such novel, large-scale data to address unanswered questions in the literature regarding the founding patterns of entrepreneurial firms as well as growth strategies adopted by entrepreneurial firms.
If you have any questions, please contact Waverly Ding (wding@umd.edu) or Beril Yalcinkaya (beril@umd.edu).
We look forward to seeing you in Chicago,
Waverly Ding & Beril Yalcinkaya
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Waverly Ding
University of Maryland
College Park MD
(301) 405-1380
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