(posted on behalf of @Trenton Williams, Program Chair)
Impact for Whom? Reimagining Interfaces Between Entrepreneurship Scholarship and Practice
Monday, August 3, 2026 · 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Entrepreneurship scholarship meets practice in countless ways; through founders and funders, accelerators and ecosystems, policymakers and educators, communities and classrooms. Yet we often treat "impact" as a single thing, when different audiences need different kinds of knowledge, evidence, outcomes, processes, and engagement.
This year's ENT Division Plenary takes up impact pluralism by asking: How can entrepreneurship scholars design more intentional, reciprocal, and useful interfaces with practice without sacrificing rigor? Across every segment, we'll return to one question: impact for whom, through what interface, with what evidence, and with what tradeoffs?
The goal of this plenary is to try and do things differently. To dive into impact pluralism, we are bringing in folks with diverse expertise, experience, and foci in hopes of stimulating ideas for more impactful work. When attending, you can expect brief practitioner provocations from local entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, and practitioners where we hear about the problems they are striving to solve. We will also have experienced academics who have done research in the field, engaged with diverse research-output stakeholders, and are capable of discussing and responding to practitioner provocations. Finally, we will engage you as an audience including polling as well as some exercises designed to help you produce some actionable outputs while in the session.
I invite you to participate in this year's plenary! Please come ready to rethink how and for whom our research matters, and how you can leave AOM with ideas and inspiration to pursue a more fulfilling academic life. I invite you to add this session to your AOM calendar now, and then to look for additional details that will follow.
See you in Philadelphia!
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Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh
Associate Professor
Jönköping University
Jonkoping
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