Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference

An Invited Best Practices Conference for Advancing
Research Excellence in Entrepreneurship
University of Connecticut School of Business, Storrs
May 28-30, 2009

Click Here for Conference Session Videos

Organized and Co-sponsored by:
The Academy of Management (AoM) Entrepreneurship Division
The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI)


Conference Co-Chairs:
Ronald K. Mitchell, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Chair
Richard N. Dino, University of Connecticut Organizing Committee Chair


AoM Entrepreneurship Division Research Excellence Initiative

A message from the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Chair, Ronald K. Mitchell Professor of Entrepreneurship Jean Austin Bagley Regents Chair in Management Division Chair, Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Rawls College of Business Texas Tech University

The vision of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management is to grow entrepreneurship scholars. The Division, therefore, seeks to promote excellence in entrepreneurship research across multiple scholarly disciplines. To motivate such scholarly growth both increased visibility and increased availability of help become the focus. Accordingly, in this effort to both honor entrepreneurship research excellence and serve as a catalyst to increase the volume and quality of manuscript flow of top-tier entrepreneurship research, the Division has launched “The Entrepreneurship Research Excellence Initiative (EREI).” EREI is currently comprised of The IDEA Awards and the Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference. - Ron Mitchell

Click here for the AoM Entrepreneurship Division Website

The IDEA Awards (Celebrated Annually in August of each year at AoM)
The IDEA Awards are a yearly gathering of research pioneers, thought leaders, emerging scholars, and key editors representing top tier journals where increasing excellence in entrepreneurship research impacts multi-disciplinary fields. The IDEA Awards honor research excellence across and beyond the Entrepreneurship Division in the following categories: Foundational Paper Research; Thought Leader Research; and Research Promise Scholarship.

The Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference (May 28-30, 2009)
The Inaugural Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference was a “new-format” invited best practices conference at the University of Connecticut for advancing top-tier research in entrepreneurship.

Conference Format
The conference featured two types of sessions.

Journal Editors and Authors Panels
Each of these sessions were designed around a panel of editors from top-tier general management and specialty entrepreneurship journals who introduced one or two recently published/accepted papers and their authors, and engaged in a facilitated discussion related to how this research progressed from initial manuscript (inception) to ultimate publication, with additional emphasis on how to conceptualize and produce manuscripts that meet the quality and focus requirements of their particular journal. Each Journal Editors and Authors Panel session had Q&A opportunities from both on-site conference participants and those participating through the internet from around the world.

Keynote Addresses
Each of these sessions were designed around keynote addresses from exemplar Research Scholars who provided insights into the best practices that have served them well across an entire career of producing top tier research. In addition, the keynotes discussed both driving and emerging themes in entrepreneurship research that are relevant to the many fields that study social phenomena where entrepreneurship plays a role. Each keynote session had Q&A opportunities from both on-site conference participants and those participating through the internet from around the world.

It was the intent that both the Editors/Authors Panels and Keynote Addresses will serve as a new set of transparent milestones for encouraging and accelerating the successful publishing of top-tier Entrepreneurship research from multi-disciplinary, highly committed scholars.

All sessions were web-streamed and recorded for future downloading, and have been made available to all entrepreneurship researchers on both the AoM’s Entrepreneurship Division and University of Connecticut’s CCEI websites. Please click here to access the conference session videos.


Journal/Editor Participants
(click on journal name for session information)

• Academy of Management Journal
• Academy of Management Review
• Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Business Venturing
• Journal of Management
• Journal of Management Studies
• Organization Science
• Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
• Strategic Management Journal

Keynote Addresses
(click on name for bio information)

• Howard Aldrich
• Jay Barney
• Michael Hitt
• Duane Ireland
• Patricia P. McDougall
• S. "Venkat" Venkataraman

Location

The Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference was held at the University of Connecticut School of Business. The University's campus is situated in a delightful rural setting located in the heart of New England. Nearby holiday destinations include Cape Cod (Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket Island), Newport Rhode Island, Mystic Seaport, the forest and mountains of Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire as well as Boston and New York City. Participants were housed on campus at the Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center.

Schedule and Events
The Conference kick-off was on Thursday, May 28 2009 at the University of Connecticut's Alumni House, and the conference closed at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 30 2009. The Friday evening Conference gathering was a Traditional New England Clam Bake.

Click Here for Conference Schedule

Organizers and More Information
Rich Dino, Executive Director of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UConn and Ron Mitchell, AoM Entrepreneurship Division Chair are the Conference Co-Chairs. Rich also served as the UConn Organizing Committee Chair, with UConn Committee members Zeki Simsek, and Lucy Gilson.

For more information, please email Rich directly (Rich.Dino@business.uconn.edu).

Click Here for Details on Conference Co-Chairs and Editor/Author Session Moderators