Sub-theme 25: Energizing entrepreneurship: The role of industry knowledge structures in creating, assessing, and embedding new business ventures
Convenors:
Michel L. Ehrenhard, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota, USA
Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneurship in Geographic Clusters
Chair: Shaker Zahra
Does distance matter? Advancing our understanding of the geography of innovation
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Brett Anitra Gilbert
On the Diffusion of the Ready-to-wear Fashion: An Institutional-network Approach
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Marc Bahlmann
Disruptive Technologies: Identifying Their Geographic Origins
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Yue Zhao
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneurial Systems
Chair: Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
Shuyuan Wu, Marie Wilson and Marcus Ho
Industry knowledge structures and participative actors: A complexity perspective on the creation of employment systems through
entrepreneurship
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Adina Dabu
Shih-Chang Hung
Creating an industry in an emerging market: institutional entrepreneurship of Chinese vendors and Taiwanese makers in the
Chinese mobile phone industry
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Shuyuan Wu
The human resource management consulting entrepreneur: firm-builder, market-maker and diffuser of human resource management
knowledge in an emergent business system
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Chuan-Kai Lee
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneuring in the Innovation Process
Chair: Michel Ehrenhard
Venturing lead user generated ideas within a large corporation: knowledge conversion and entrepreneurship at the front end
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Maria Höyssä
Finn Hansson and Mette Mønsted
Energizing Knowledge for Innovation in Interorganisational Collaborations: Critical Remarks on Knowledge Transfer and A Turn
Towards Collaborative Entrepreneurship
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Barbara Fuchs
Sampsa Hyysalo
Making sense of an opportunity in a discontinuity situation - a case of new clinical testing equipment
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Finn Hansson
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploration and Exploitation
Chair: Shaker Zahra
Christine Quinn Trank
EMPRESARIOS: RECONOCIENDO Y HACIENDO CAMINOS AL ANDAR (ENTREPRENEURS: RECOGNIZING AND MAKING PATHS BY WALKING)
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Roberta Virtuani
Inara Schier
THE ODD LIFE CYCLE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED SOFTWARE COMPANIES
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Alejandra Marin Melo
Strategic and organizational design in creating radically new businesses:
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Yeda Swirski de Souza
Session V: Friday, July 03, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneurial Sensemaking
Chair: Michel Ehrenhard
The Discursive Creation of New Ventures: The Role of Metaphor and Analogy
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Marina Biniari
Bettina Wittneben and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari
Why do Entrepreneurial Stories Matter? Obtaining Legitimacy and Resources by Recounting a Coherent Mission
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jean Clarke
The role of corporate agency in making sense of industry knowledge structures and the impact on the imprinting process of
corporate venturing units
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Jatinder Sidhu
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, E3-B-B020
Entrepreneurial Variety and Performance
Chair: Jeroen Kraaijenbrink
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: The moderating role of senior team attributes and environmental dynamism
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Bárbara Larrañeta
Ji Sun Lim and Youngkeun Choi
The Role of the Entrepreneur, Industry and Government in Corporate Development: The Case of Korean Information Technology
Industry
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Sebastiaan van Doorn
Bárbara Larrañeta and Els Van de Velde
THE INFLUENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE CONVERSION CAPABILITY OF NEW VENTURES ON THE VARIETY OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND STRATEGIES
PURSUED
Presenter(s)Discussant(s): Seungwha Chung
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, E3-B-B020
- Group Discussion -
Chair: Michel Ehrenhard