Call For Papers McGill-Cornell Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship June 24-26, 2008. Montreal, Canada
This second annual conference is intended to further the institutional approach to entrepreneurial studies. An institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.
Sessions will be organized around these broad themes:
- the creation of new institutional structures to facilitate the development of new kinds of organizations;
- the use of symbols to legitimate novel organizations;
- the role of norms, values, and traditions in facilitating (or impeding) entrepreneurship;
- deinstitutionalization of an established practice as a form of entrepreneurial opportunity;
- the creation of standards and conventions to support new types of economic activities;
- the role of social movements in disrupting and constructing institutions and new kinds organizations;
- the effect of state institutions on entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.
Our desire is for this conference to be highly interactive, so we are limiting participation to a small number of (approx. 25 or so) paper presentations. To promote interaction between senior and junior scholars, half of these slots will be reserved for papers submitted by more junior scholars. Papers will be accepted based on a competitive submission process. A small number of leading scholars will facilitate the paper sessions; these include W. Richard Scott, Howard Aldrich, and Pamela Tolbert, among others.
The conference is sponsored by the McGill Centre for Strategy Studies in Organization, and Entrepreneurship @ Cornell. We will cover onsite accommodations for 2 nights for presenters (one room per accepted paper). A select group of papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work focused on the topic of institutions and entrepreneurship.
Please send a full paper to Hermann Juergens ([email protected]) by February 29th, 2008. In a covering email, please indicate which theme from those above best describes your paper. Decisions will be made by March 31st, 2008.
We look forward to seeing you in Montreal!
Robert J. David Wesley D. Sine Desautels Faculty of Management J. Thomas Clarke Professor of Entrepreneurship McGill University Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
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