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Dear colleagues,
I am writing to invite you to join the AoM symposium on business accelerators and early-stage ventures.
Business Accelerators and the Development of Early-Stage Ventures
Program Session: 1796 | Submission: 17606 | Sponsor(s): (ENT, STR)
Scheduled: Tuesday, Aug 14 2018 11:30AM - 1:00PM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Regency B
As the popularity and reach of accelerators and other entrepreneurial support organizations expand, their potential to impact early-stage ventures increases. Yet our understanding of how they operate as well as how effective they are in influencing entrepreneurial outcomes has been hampered by the newness of these organizations as well as the lack of reliable data. The goal of this symposium is to enhance our understanding of accelerators by presenting five empirical papers that focus on questions exploring the processes as well as outcomes associated with these organizations. Each paper focuses on a different aspect of the entrepreneurial process, from resource mobilization, to organizational learning and market competition, to resource endowments and third-party evaluations, to entrepreneurial outcomes such as survival and funding outcomes. Collectively, these papers provide insight into how accelerators impact entrepreneurial outcomes for early-stage ventures.
Organizer: Li-Wei Chen, Old Dominion U.
Andrea E. Caldwell, The U. of Texas at Austin
Saurabh Lall, U. of Oregon
Discussant: Robert Seamans, NYU Stern
Presenters: Trevor Daniel Young-Hyman, U. of Pittsburgh
Andrea Contigiani, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Sheryl Winston Smith, Villanova U.
Laura Gasiorowski, U. of Delaware
Sandy Yu, U. of Minnesota
Benjamin L. Hallen, U. of Washington, Seattle
Susan L. Cohen, U. of Georgia
Saurabh Lall, U. of Oregon
Li-Wei Chen, Old Dominion U.
Peter W Roberts, Emory U.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Li-Wei, Andrea, and Saurabh
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Li-Wei Chen
Assistant Professor
Management Department
2052 Constant Hall
Strome College of Business
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Phone: (757) 683-3547
Email:
l3chen@odu.edu------------------------------