To our colleagues attending the upcoming AoM Conference,
🗓 27 July 2025 | ⏰ 8:30–10:00 AM CET (GMT+2) | 📍 Bella Center: Hall B- B3-m2
Contribution 21065: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Meets Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges (find us in ENT Division DIG Highlights AoM ENT DIG Highlights)
We are pleased to invite you to join our panel symposium at the Academy of Management Conference in Copenhagen Denmark, and cast your vote, where we will explore the timely and thought-provoking debate on
The Motion:
'This House believes that a conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystem without entrepreneurial cognition, behaviour, orientation, identity and decision making of agency is flawed.'
'The assumption that (entrepreneurial) conduct is prompt and rational is in all cases a fiction. But it proves to be sufficiently near to reality, if things have time to hammer logic into men… Therefore, too, the carrying out of new combinations is a special function, and the privilege of a type of people who are much less numerous than all those who have the "objective" possibility of doing it. Therefore, finally, entrepreneurs are a special type, and their behavior a special problem, the motive power of a great number of significant phenomena.' (Schumpeter, 2021 [1934] p.66-67)
This panel symposium brings together the entrepreneurship scholars to discuss whether entrepreneurial agency in the ecosystem approach is sufficiently tackled or not, necessary or not and so on.
💡 Featuring
🔹 Introductory remarks by Paul Jones, Swansea University and Esin Yoruk, Coventry University
🔹 Speaking for the Motion
Jonas Gabrielsson, Halmstad University, Sweden
Karen Williams-Middleton, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
🔹 Speaking against the Motion
Ben Spigel, Babson College, USA
Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans, USA, and Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK
Frank van Rijnsoever, Utrecht University, Netherlands
🔹 The 90-minute symposium will be conducted as follows:
· Brief introduction to the topic and the panellists by the Chair
· Each panellist presents their own standpoint for or against the motion (10 minutes each)
· Moderated panel discussion where questions/comments from the audience are allowed (20-30 minutes)
· Concluding statement from the panellists before the audience vote (1 minute each)
· Audience voting
Division Sponsor:
Entrepreneurship Division
👉 No registration is needed. Just drop in on the day
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Esin Yoruk
Associate Professor
Coventry University
COVENTRY
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