If you would like to see the possibility of more research and publication opportunities on entrepreneurial behaviors, processes, actions, and practices (e.g., the specifics of what entrepreneurs are actually doing), please come to this SAP Keynote (described below) and the business meeting afterward to discuss and support this effort.
I believe that the SAP (Strategizing Activities and Practices) interest group has an opportunity to become a Division (Management Activities and Practices) by including more scholars from other practice perspectives (e.g., entrepreneurship as practice, leadership as practice, innovation as practice, etc.). If you will be attending the AOM meeting in Chicago, I will deliver a keynote address on this issue on Monday, August 12, from 1:15 PM to 2:45 PM in the Crystal Room (3rd Level) in the Fairmont Hotel.
KEYNOTE: "MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND PRACTICES:" EXTENDING SAP TO INCLUDE OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES
William B. Gartner is known for his scholarship on entrepreneurial behavior and for helping to create the entrepreneurship as practice community. He was instrumental in taking the Entrepreneurship Interest Group to Division Status in the 1980s. His keynote proposes that the members of SAP consider involving scholars from other practice areas (e.g., entrepreneurship as practice, leadership as practice, innovation as practice, etc.) and, with this more inclusive orientation, seek Division Status under the umbrella of "Management Activities and Practices." In addition, he will offer some thoughts on the value and importance of fieldwork as the primary focus of scholarship on management activities and practices, regardless of its current value for theorizing.
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William B. Gartner
Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship, Babson College + Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship, Linnaeus University
wgartner@babson.edu------------------------------