The purpose of the SIG Entrepreneurship is to develop an ongoing and constructive dialogue among entrepreneurship scholars to conduct research that is relevant for entrepreneurship theory and practice in the contemporary world. The SIG Entrepreneurship aims at promoting research and networking interests in individual and collaborative forms of entrepreneurship by providing a wide-ranging, engaged and internationally focused forum to discuss and develop research and practice in the field. We put a distinct focus on the key European feature – ‘context matters’ – why we try in all activities to promote and stimulate what ‘European’ might mean in any given context and any approach of entrepreneurship research.
SIG OFFICERS (2019-2021):
SIG Chair, Matthias Raith (Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany) raith@ovgu.de
SIG Programme Chair, Marzena Starnawska (University of Warsaw, Poland) mstarnawska ( at ) wz.uw.edu.pl
SIG Programme Chair-Elect, Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) luca.gnan@uniroma2.it
Past Chair, Massimiliano M. Pellegrini (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy) dr.massimiliano.pellegrini@gmail.com
Past Chair, Lucrezia Songini (Eastern Piedmont University, Italy) lucrezia.songini@uniupo.it
Past Chair and Entrepreneurship SIG Founder, Hans Lundberg (Linnaeus University, Sweden) hans.lundberg@lnu.se
Communication Officers, Marzena Starnawska (University of Warsaw, Poland) mstarnawska ( at ) wz.uw.edu.pl , Giulia Flamini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy giulia.flamini@uniroma2.it, Alex Alterskye (University of Lincoln, UK) alex@alterskye.karoo.co.uk, Jennet Achyldurdyyeva (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan) jennet6688@yahoo.com.
GT03_00 Entrepreneurship General Track
The SIG Entrepreneurship General Track aims to develop an ongoing and constructive dialogue among entrepreneurship scholars to conduct research that is relevant for entrepreneurship theory and practice in the contemporary world. This general track is intended to capture new and emerging research areas within as well as classical areas of study of entrepreneurship. In line with our mission – methodological, theoretical and empirical pluralism in entrepreneurship research – we welcome contributions from all areas related to entrepreneurship that are not explicitly covered by the other tracks sponsored by the SIG.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Lucrezia Songini, University of Eastern Piedmont, lucrezia.songini@uniupo.it
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG STANDING TRACKS
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing
(co-sponsored by Entrepreneurship SIG-03, Innovation SIG-06 and Strategic Management SIG-13)
Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing
The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice (Massa et al., 2017; Foss & Saebi, 2017, Zott, Baden-Fuller and Mangematin; 2015: Spieth et al., 2014). However, despite ongoing research efforts to understand the business model and its role in firm performance, scholars face persistent questions about constituent components, sequences and contingencies for the process of business model innovation, impacting strategic intents of the firm to develop new value-creating and value-capturing activities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Patrick Spieth , University of Kassel, spieth@uni-kassel.de
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Behaviour
There is a general agreement that the creation, success, longevity, and survival of SMEs are deeply linked to the effectiveness of decision-making processes. Entrepreneurial decisions are affected both internally, at the individual level of the entrepreneur’s cognition, values, intentions and emotions, as well as externally, due to the continuous negotiation with different stakeholders. The impact of these decisions’ characteristics and their relation to those of other actors is a fundamental topic to be investigated by entrepreneurship scholars. For this reason, the track welcomes novel research approaches that are conceptual or empirical.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Sara Sassetti , University of Florence, sara.sassetti@unifi.it
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneurial companies are the backbone of economic development. Yet, these firms often suffer from a lack of internal finance which limits their growth and survival. The availability of external finance is hence a key element in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Recently, the availability of external finance has changed dramatically. Whereas a large number of “traditional” investors (e.g. banks or venture capitalists) had to recover from the financial crisis, a novel set of financial instruments have emerged, such incubators, proof-of-concept centres or crowdfunding platforms. Considering the importance of these phenomena, it is crucial to understand how they influence the development of entrepreneurial finance.
Anita Quas , University of Milan, anita.quas@unimi.it
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
The main power of regional contexts is their ability to incubate high level of entrepreneurial activities, greater engagement with the global networks of production, employment, creation of first-class thinkers, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs, so to increase quality of the society and the economy. The following broad set of the topics will be considered: To what extent does forced migration and refugee status impact on regional development in similar and/or different ways to other types of migration? How does innovation and entrepreneurial behaviours evolve and diffuse over hierarchical social networks in private and public organizations? What are the effects of contents
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Marina Dabic , Nottingham Trent University and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, marina.dabic@ntu.ac.uk
ST03_06 – Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Change
There has been an undeniable “social turn” in business and in the market that is increasingly absorbing ideas about sustainability, stakeholders’ interests and social enterprise. This track calls for papers investigating the impact of social and environmental concerns in the strategies of new ventures or existing ones, and in the formation of social enterprises and other forms of social movements in business to meet the grand challenges facing societies all over the world. We also welcome papers that investigate the reverse relation i.e., the influence of entrepreneurial activities on institutional, environmental and societal contexts.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,
Goal 2: Zero hunger,
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 13: Climate action,
Goal 14: Life below water,
Goal 15: Life on land,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Marzena Starnawska , University of Warsaw, mstarnawska ( at ) wz.uw.edu.pl
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG TRACKS
T03_08 – Entrepreneurial education, academic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial university
Universities should update their knowledge, modernise their study programmes, and harmonise their research activities with the needs of industry and the private business sector, but they also need their feedback and support. This call highlights the key role of universities in the national innovation system from the perspective of academic entrepreneurship, joint R&D and stronger industry cooperation and entrepreneurial education. We would like to open a discussion about current concepts, actions and proper approach toward an entrepreneurial university, and presents some criticism as well as supporting opinions. Entrepreneurship is an economic and social phenomenon, a research object, and, an academic and teaching subject.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Marina Dabic , Nottingham Trent University and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, marina.dabic@ntu.ac.uk
T03_10 – Entrepreneurial Processes
Entrepreneurship is the result of planned activities and random occurrences, of predetermined actions and rash decisions, of personal inclinations and social expectations. Thus, scholars are more and more inclined to talk about entrepreneuring or entrepreneurship processes. This track calls for papers investigating antecedents (psychological traits, contextualfactors, or governmental tools/actions), dynamics (individual or team-work aiming to test/validate entrepreneurial ideas), and possible outcomes (i.e. new ventures creation) of entrepreneurship processes. Scholars are also invited to explore the role of the crowd that – beyond crowd funding– can propose ideas (crowd-wisdom), suggest insights to refer to new products/services (crowd-creation) and provide a feedback (crowd-voting) about new entrepreneurial ideas on dedicated platforms.
The authors of papers submitted at track T03_10 “Entrepreneurial Processes” that disclose a good fit and potential for development will be invited to submit a new version of the paper to the Special Issue titled “Digital Transformation, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurial Process: Dynamics, Challenges, Opportunities” on Journal of Strategy and Management (an Emerald Journal). https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=8821.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Diego Matricano , Department of Management, Università degli Studi della Campania , diego.matricano@unicampania.it
T03_11 – Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Management and Professionalization
The track welcomes research that contributes to a better understanding of behavior and mechanisms constituting the formation and diffusion of entrepreneurial management. Balancing professional management and entrepreneurial management through the introduction of professional competences and formal managerial systems (management structure, knowledge management, HR system), an organization can remain competitive and contribute to organizational goals (growth, innovation) and societal value creation (well-being, decent work).
The track provides an opportunity to take stock on these developments and to address entrepreneurial management in combination with related fields like dynamic capabilities, professionalization, managerialization, internationalization.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 4: Quality education,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Giulia Flamini , Rome Tor Vergata University, giulia.flamini@uniroma2.it
T03_12 – Female entrepreneurship
More than thirty years have passed since the first study on female entrepreneurship has been published and since then an outpouring of research on the topic has emerged. Interestingly, to date, some pioneering scholars are contributing to moving ahead the field by reframing the established research questions, by proposing possible new research directions, by employing new empirical methods and theoretical approaches or by investigating new contexts. This track aims to encourage the adoption of new perspectives in the study of female entrepreneurship, able to demolish or confirm the established knowledge, as well as to investigate new issues on female entrepreneurship.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality
Michela Mari , Tor Vergata University, michela.mari@uniroma2.it
T03_13 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs
SMEs growth strategies have been recently marked by increasing levels of internationalization. This evolution is not limited to exports or international outsourcing: it is indeed a brand new way of doing business. Internationalization of SMEs is challenging existing knowledge. Management scholars are invited to provide new perspectives on international entrepreneurial strategies of SMEs, their challenges and evolving business models, their relation to countries of destination, timing and entry mode, managerial tools, organizational structure, quality of acquired knowledge, relationships with multinationals and institutions. Theoretical contributions, reflections, and empirical analyses are welcome, provided they focus on SMEs.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Lara Penco , University of Genoa, lara.penco@economia.unige.it
T03_16 – Sharing Economy: Entrepreneurship, Business Models and Ecosystems
The peer-to-peer Sharing Economy tackles the challenges of inclusiveness by linking peers with idling assets to peers in need of assets.
In line with the EURAM 2020, this track promotes the “Business of Now” of Sharing Economy which replaces the utility of possession by utility of disposition to leverage the processes and mechanisms of a future of sustainability.
The sharing economy has improves both ecological and economic efficiency to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through promoting collective consumption, shifting choices from ownership to demand-fulfilment, dropping carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions by reducing the resources required.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,
Goal 5: Gender equality,
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy,
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,
Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions,
Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Djamchid Assadi , Burgundy School of Business BSB, France, djamchid.assadi@bsb-education.com, djamchid.assadi@bsb-education.com
