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You are invited to join us for Sub-theme 51: Leveraging the Past for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at EGOS 2025 in Athens (July 3-5, 2025).
In this sub-theme, we welcome submissions from scholars from different traditions interested in exploring, expanding, and challenging our current understanding of how the past can be harnessed for innovation and entrepreneurship. Submissions might address the following questions (please note that this list is not exhaustive):
- How does the past contribute to and constrain creative destruction?
- How does time as a social construction affects our understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship?
- How do entrepreneurs develop a historical conscience?
- How do organizations negotiate the tensions between tradition and innovation?
- How does a creative view of the past inform capability renewal?
- How does memory contribute to the production of innovation?
- How do entrepreneurs experience the past as their ventures grow?
- How does legacy evolve across generations?
- How do corporate museums contribute to strategic entrepreneurship?
- How do entrepreneurs shape and reshape their historical narratives?
- What is the future of past innovations?
Please submit your short paper (max. 3,000 words) before 7 January 2025.
For additional details on Sub-theme 51, click here.
For information on the Call for Short Papers, click here.
For questions, please reach out to the convenor team.
We look forward to seeing you in Athens!
Diego M. Coraiola, University of Victoria
Fernanda Yumi Tsujiguchi, London South Bank University
William M. Foster, University of Alberta
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Diego M. Coraiola
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
University of Victoria
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