Dear ENT Members,
We are excited to share that we are organizing the third annual PDW on the topic of race and entrepreneurship for the 2025 AOM conference in Copenhagen. As part of this PDW, we hope to encourage research in this area by providing an opportunity to receive feedback from journal editors on extended abstracts.
We are currently seeking abstracts (3–5 pages, double-spaced, excluding references) on the topic of race (broadly defined) and entrepreneurship (broadly defined).
Session: TBD
Format: In person
Description:
Over the past three years, this professional development workshop has cultivated space for meaningful dialogue and rigorous research at the intersection of race and entrepreneurship. We have traced the evolution of this field-from mapping its foundations (2022), navigating the publication process (2023), to introducing Bourdieu's Practice Theory as a lens for understanding structure and agency (2024).
This year's PDW expands its scope to race and entrepreneurship across global contexts, emphasizing critical and emancipatory approaches to understanding how entrepreneurship is both shaped by and a response to systems of racial inequality. We aim to challenge static views of race and ethnicity, and instead explore how these identities-and the entrepreneurial activity tied to them-are constructed, reproduced, and resisted within diverse institutional and cultural environments.
Participating editors (and former editors):
- Diana Hechavarria, Babson College (AE at ETP)
- Brett Gilbert, American University (AE at SEJ)
- Susan Marlow, University of Nottingham (AE at ETP)
- Petra Andries, Ghent University (AE at SBE)
Participating speakers:
- Angela Martinez Dy – Loughborough University London on Critical Perspectives
- Annaleena Parhankangas – Iowa State University on Emancipatory Entrepreneurship
- Mauricio Mercado – Syracuse University on Indigenous and Immigrant Contexts
We look forward to your submissions and to building an engaging session together!
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Yolanda Christophe
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Syracuse University
Lender Center for Social Justice
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