If you'd like to learn about the pragmatist foundations of novel strategy formation, we invite you to join our exciting and interactive star-studded symposium! The expert panel - Todd Zenger, Violina Rindova, Joe Mahoney, Saku Mantere, Dimo Dimov, & Arnaldo Camuffo - will illuminate this upcoming topic by discussing first principles and promising research directions.
Symposium# 2040: Pragmatist Foundations of Research on Entrepreneurial Strategy
Tuesday, Aug 13 2024, 11:30AM – 1:00PM CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)
at Hyatt in Roosevelt 3B – Concourse Level (East Tower)
Sponsored by ENT and STR divisions
For further details, see AOM Program Page
Abstract
American pragmatism provides a rich intellectual foundation that accommodates diverse practices in service of "usefulness" that are well-suited to examine entrepreneurial strategies that aim at changing the status quo and the fundamental uncertainty associated with it. While there is substantial potential for cross-pollination, research on entrepreneurial strategy drawing on pragmatism is still dispersed across research communities. Drawing on distinct tenets of pragmatism, current research is broadly focusing on how entrepreneurs may adapt and evolve their ideas using scientific reasoning to test beliefs about (future) states of the world, as well as the generative power of entrepreneurial agency relying on abductive reasoning toward creative world-making. Important questions remain unanswered, such as the conditions that are (more) conducive for either view, and for opportunities for integration of the two; as well as the prerequisites and the type of reasoning that entrepreneurs rely on to derive plausible and warranted assertions, and how they decide to forge ahead. Entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization scholars are just about to address these questions. This symposium will bring together a diverse group of leading scholars from these areas of research, to create a common ground of key pragmatist assumptions, raise open questions for future studies examining the phenomenon of entrepreneurial strategy formation, and chart opportunities for a fruitful (joint) research program.
Organizer: Anastasia Sergeeva, University of Bath
Organizer: David Reetz, Technical University of Munich
Panelist: Dimo Dimov, University of Bath
Panelist: Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University
Panelist: Joseph Mahoney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Panelist: Saku Mantere, McGill University
Panelist: Violina Rindova, University of California Irvine
Panelist: Todd Zenger, University of Utah
We hope to welcome you to the session.
Best regards,
Anastasia and David