What are the most pressing questions around:
Nature and Nurture?
Developing a Research Agenda at the Intersection of Parenting and Entrepreneurship
WHEN: Sunday, Aug 11 @ 8-10am
WHERE: Haymarket room @ the Hyatt
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There has been much research on entrepreneurial entry, trying to uncover why certain people pursue entrepreneurship while others do not. Two major categories of driving forces are the context in which entrepreneurs have been embedded and their identities. However, most research overlooks the stakeholders that often define both factors for future entrepreneurs-parents. While family dynamics have been known to be critical to preserving family businesses, recent research has started to examine the effects of parents, parental styles, and inherited parental identities on entrepreneurs more broadly. As any parent knows, however, parenting is a complex and multidimensional process, which makes understanding parents' role in their children's entrepreneurial pursuits challenging.
This PDW, therefore, aims to (1) establish a research agenda to understand the interrelationship of entrepreneurship and parenting better and (2) bring together an interdisciplinary community of scholars to discuss, plan, and pursue aspects of the agenda. The invited speakers at this PDW have made inroads into this research area from very different perspectives and varied theoretical lenses. Their work provides starting points for mapping this new research frontier.
FORMAT:
Part I (60 min):
Invited presenters discuss their approaches based on their recently published works and projects in progress:
- Kimberly Eddleston, Northeastern University
- William B. Gartner, Babson College
- Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
- Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Audencia University
Part II (60 min):
Breakout table discussions by subtopic to craft research questions
Table report outs
Summary of proposed research agenda
Suggested future directions
Establishment of a research community for collaboration
>> JOIN THE COMMUNITY OR SUGGEST RESEARCH TOPICS! <<
Questions? Contact Alisa: ajnocharles@babson.edu
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Alisa Jno-Charles
Assistant Professor
Babson College
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