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 (2023-2024):
SIG Chair, Diego Matricano (Università degli Studi della Campania, Italy) diego.matricano@unicampania.it
SIG Programme Chair, Damiano Petrolo (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale) damiano.petrolo@uniupo.it
Paper Development Workshops Officers:
Gorkem Aksaray (Trinity Business School, Ireland) gorkem.aksaray@tcd.ie
Galit Klein (Ariel University, Israel) galitk@ariel.ac.il
Bisrat Misganaw (NEOMA Business School, France) bisrat.misganaw@neoma-bs.fr
Francesca Sanguineti (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy) francesca.sanguineti@unipv.it
Publication Acceleration Programme Officers:
Andrea Caputo (Università di Trento, Italy) andrea.caputo@unitn.it
Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, italy) luca.gnan@uniroma2.it
Massimiliano M. Pellegrini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) massimiliano.pellegrini@uniroma2.it
Communication Officers:
Maria Claudia Angel Ferrero (IAE Montpellier, France) maria-claudia.angel-ferreo@umontpellier.fr
Alessia Munnia (Università di Catania, Italy) alessia.munnia@phd.unict.it
Francesco Russo (Università di Catania, Italy) francesco.russo@phd.unict.it
Past Chair, Luca Gnan (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) luca.gnan@uniroma2.it
Past Chair, Marzena Starnawska (University of Warsaw, Poland) mstarnawska@wz.uw.edu.pl
Past Chair, Matthias Raith (Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany) raith@ovgu.de
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
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG STANDING TRACKS
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; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact
Damiano Petrolo – damiano.petrolo@uniupo.it
ST03_01/ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM)
The business model topic attracts continued interest in business research and practice, spanning the fields of strategy (Leppänen et al., 2023; Casadesus-Masanell and Ricart, 2010), innovation (Spieth et al., 2023; Foss & Saebi, 2017) and entrepreneurship (Snihur and Zott, 2020). While business models are conceptualized as boundary-spanning activity systems encompassing value creation, value capture, and value delivery activities (Teece 2018; Snihur and Zott 2020), business model innovation describes “designed, novel, nontrivial changes to the key elements of a firm’s business model and/or the architecture linking these elements” (Foss and Saebi 2017).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact
Dirk Schneckenberg – dirk.schneckenberg@rennes-sb.com
ST03_02 – Entrepreneurship Processes: Leveraging innovation to start up
Entrepreneurship processes are fluxes (Steyaert, 1997), flows (Hjorth et al., 2015), trajectories (Matricano, 2020), avenues of becoming during which consistent changes take place (Bygrave, 1989a, 1989b). These processes do not work straightforwardly (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Shane, 2003) since they are based on
innovation and aim to bring it to the market. This track calls for papers that investigate what
happens during entrepreneurship processes:
– How individuals identify innovation;
– How they shape/manage innovation;
– If/how they mobilize and organize resources to exploit innovation;
– How innovation gets to the market (for example as startups or patents).
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Goal 1: No poverty; 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 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact
Diego Matricano – diego.matricano@unicampania.it
ST03_02 - Entrepreneurship Processes: Leveraging innovation to start up
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Cognition and Behaviour
The success and longevity of entrepreneurial ventures depend on effective intra- and inter-organisational cognition and behaviour. Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, guided by their emotions, values, beliefs, and cognitive processes, shape their organisations and supporting systems. These in turn govern future decisions and outcomes, which often occur under uncertainty. The scholarly exploration of the various facets of entrepreneurial cognition and behaviour – including intuition, rationality, cognitive versatility, opportunity identification-exploitation, imagination, creativity, trust, negotiation, conflict management, perspicacity and metacognition – offers extensive opportunities for advancement. This track invites pioneering research (conceptual and empirical) that advances the understudied aspects of entrepreneurial cognition and behaviour.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Primary Contact
Leonie Baldacchino – leonie.baldacchino@um.edu.mt
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneurial companies are vital to economic development, yet they frequently face financial constraints that impede their growth and survival. Recent advancements in digital technologies, including crowdfunding, artificial intelligence (AI), as well as venture capital (VC) dynamics, have transformed how these firms set objectives through the acquisition of financial resources, connect with potential investors, shape decision-making processes and, therefore, how entrepreneurs achieve purpose. Additionally, factors such as the evolving use of workspace at home and in the offices, especially post-COVID-19, have significantly affected startup organization and productivity, further influencing their funding patterns.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure; Goal 10: Reducing inequalities; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact
Francesca Tenca – francesca.tenca@uniupo.it
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
The main power of regional contexts is their ability to incubate a high level of entrepreneurial activities, build entrepreneurial ecosystems, greater engagement with the global networks of production, employment, and creation of first-class thinkers, researchers, educators and entrepreneurs, so to increase the quality of the society and the economy. The following broad set of topics will be considered: To what extent do EU goals impact regional development? How do innovation and entrepreneurial behaviours evolve and diffuse over hierarchical social networks in private and public organizations? What are the results of SMART integration, coopetition and networks?
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; 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 13: Climate action; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact
Marina Dabic – mdabic@net.efzg.hr
ST03_06 – Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
This year’s EURAM theme, “Managing with Purpose,” highlights organizational approaches that transcend profit-making, emphasizing aspirations to drive positive societal change. It focuses on engaging people in doing business for good, especially in social and sustainable entrepreneurship, where purpose is integral to entrepreneurs’ values and their support systems. Aligned with impact goals, it enables entrepreneurs to create and grow purpose-driven organizations that address societal challenges, allowing profit to follow naturally from collective efforts. United in our passion and commitment to supporting the research of junior, mid-career, and senior scholars, this track invites conceptual and empirical papers in social and sustainable entrepreneurship.
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
Primary Contact
Nicole Siebold – nicole.siebold@mgmt.au.dk
ST03_07 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs
SMEs growth strategies are characterized not only by complex paths of internationalization, but also – increasingly – by digitalization and sustainability. Furthermore, SMEs are often part of international value chains and are therefore exposed to repeated shocks in the environment which challenge their survivability and resilience. Management scholars are invited to provide new perspectives on international entrepreneurial strategies of SMEs, their challenges and evolving business models (also in terms of digital transformation and sustainability), their relation – inter alia – to countries of destination, timing and entry mode, managerial tools, organizational structure, type and quality of acquired knowledge, learning processes.
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
Primary Contact
Lara Penco – lara.penco@economia.unige.it
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG TRACKS
T03_08 – Migrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship for inclusion: exploring the bright, the dark and the in-between
Migrant, ex-pat, and ethnic minority entrepreneurship for inclusion is an important phenomenon to tackle grand sustainability challenges, namely lack of decent work, economic growth, and inequalities. One the one hand, migrant entrepreneurship can act as a facilitator for migrants to accelerate sustainable (de)growth and personal development to gain access to the economy and the social system. On the other hand, it can act as a hindrance limiting migrants to expand their networks, resources, and approach to sustainability. It is a multi-facet phenomenon that calls for further understanding of the bright, the dark, and the in-between at the multi-levels and -dimensions.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities
Primary Contact:
Quang David Evansluong, Umeå University, Sweden and VinUniversity, Vietnam – quang.evansluong@gmail.com
T03_09 – Life Design, Entrepreneurial Life Design, Design Y/our Future
Life Design has the objective to support humans using the innovation method design thinking with positive psychology helping individuals to design a meaningful future. By applying the notion of prototyping and iterating to careers, side-hustles, and entrepreneurial activity, it aims to foster pro-active behavior and to legitimize experimenting in society for a better person-occupation fit leading to more psychological capital, reduced stress, and improved mental health and well-being. Given the inter-disciplinarity of the subject and strong relation between academics and practitioners, we encourage submissions from a diverse range of perspectives such as design thinking, positive psychology, transitions, ageing, and others.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 5: Gender equality,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Sebastian Kernbach, University of St. Gallen, Stanford University, African Doctoral Academy – sebastian.kernbach@gmail.com
T03_10 – Circularity and entrepreneurship
Circularity represents an inspirational idea. Circular economy (CE) is a new entrepreneurial approach with great impact on the managerial side. We are interested in exploring how CE influences operations and decision making processes; moreover, the assessment of CE needs to be investigated through innovative tools, such as LCA.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Giorgio Cantino, University of Eastern Piedmont – giorgio.cantino@uniupo.it
T03_11 – Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education and Educators
The track in sustainable entrepreneurship education focuses on the critical intersection of entrepreneurship and sustainability, aiming to develop innovative approaches, pedagogical strategies, and curricular frameworks that sensibilize and empower individuals to create environmentally and socially responsible ventures. With a growing need for sustainable practices, this research track seeks to bridge the gap between traditional entrepreneurship education and the pressing challenges of today’s world. Topics will include innovative teaching methodologies to foster sustainable entrepreneurial thinking and doing, sustainable curriculum design, the development and implementation of new measurements such as outcomes and coherent assessment techniques, and the role of partnerships and collaborations.
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 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Bettina Maisch, Munich University of Applied Sciences – bettina.maisch@hm.edu
T03_12 – The platform economy for Venturing and Collaborating: Entrepreneurs, Stakeholders, Technologies, and Ecosystems
This track explores the platform economy from its conventional forms of peer-to-peer sharing and gig to the post-platform types of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
The track explores the opportunities and challenges presented by
Entrepreneurial and cooperative paradigms of venturing and business models
The value distribution within the platform ecosystems.
The paradigm shift from possession to disposition
The transformative impact of emerging technologies like blockchain, the virtual universe, and generative AI (ChatGPT) on entrepreneurship, stakeholders, platforms, business models, ecosystems, and sustainable development within the (post)platform economy.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,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 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Djamchid Assadi, BSB-Burgundy School of Business, France, – djamchid.assadi@bsb-education.com
T03_13 – Saudi Arabia Matters: Cases from a Transforming Knowledge Economy
Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing an important time, which is the post Vision 2030 economic transformation into a diversified, knowledge economy. Since then, the country has achieved several world records, like the world’s top improver in competitiveness and ease of doing business, world’s top in macroeconomic stability, 1st on ESCWA’s Government Electronic and Mobile Services Maturity Index (GEMS), 2nd most competitive & 1st safest among the G20 countries, world’s largest green initiative, and others. This sets ground for interesting academic research, cases, stories and a wide range of implications worth sharing at EURAM 2024.
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 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
Primary Contact:
Bassem Nasri, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University – bnasri@pmu.edu.sa
T03_14 – Academic entrepreneurship and technology transfer processes
Universities are key agents in the promotion of entrepreneurship. The “third mission” emphasizes their role in fostering the economic and social development. This is based on the alignment of teaching and research with a structure related to the real economic world and a dynamic combination of the traditional academic mission with entrepreneurial vocation. Over time, the issue has garnered increasing attention of authors, who have looked at it through diverse research perspectives and with distinct research aims. This proposal invites researchers to investigate new relationships among key constructs and contribute to theory by means of exploratory and explanatory methodological approaches.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,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 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
Laura Castaldi, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli – laura.castaldi@unicampania.it
T03_15 – 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
Primary Contact:
Michela Mari, Tor Vergata University – michela.mari@uniroma2.it
T03_16 / T06_09 – Entrepreneurial and Innovation Ecosystems
While there is a growing consensus regarding the importance of entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems in both theory and practice, our understanding of the dynamics and processes that promote entrepreneurship and innovation within complex spatial structures and specific contexts remains limited. This knowledge gap gives rise to an promosing discussion that encompasses various perspectives, such as multi-level and multi-stakeholder approaches, microfoundations, industry-led ecosystems, processes, legitimacy, governance, and comparative studies across different countries, regions, and cities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 10: Reducing inequalities,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Primary Contact:
Leading track chair – Christina Theodoraki, Toulouse Business School – c.theodoraki@tbs-education.fr
Co track chair – Valerie Merindol, Paris School of Business – valerie@merindol.net
T03_17 – Everyday Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
This track aims to highlight the diversity of entrepreneurial activities by inviting manuscripts that address “everyday entrepreneurship,” which Welter et al. (2017) argue encompasses 99% of entrepreneurial activities. Specifically, we are interested in understanding how the particularities of developing countries shape and are shaped by “everyday entrepreneuship” such as informal entrepreneurship (Nichter & Goldmark, 2009; Williams, 2014), entrepreneurship in adversity and extreme conditions (Baker & Nelson, 2005), ethnic entrepreneurship, and rural entrepreneurship. Advancing knowledge in this area would demonstrate the richness of entrepreneurship studies across diverse contexts, which will help to develop theories and practices tailored to developing countries.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 1: No poverty,Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
Primary Contact:
Bisrat Misganaw , NEOMA Business School – bisrat.misganaw@neoma-bs.fr
T03_18 – The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
While our knowledge on entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems’ structure and dynamics has been improving over the past 20 years, the dynamic nature of economy and societies needs us to constantly look at how entrepreneurship and innovation development processes change or should be changed over time, starting with the ways we foster the emergence of entrepreneurs. For an ecosystem to grow, then, it is crucial to understand how its elements intertwine while we pursue this goal, beginning from the analysis of the contexts where entrepreneurship is experienced and learned, and the processes that influence the birth and growth of an entrepreneur.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 3: Good health and well-being for people,Goal 4: Quality education,Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
Primary Contact:
- Leading track chair: Michele Modina, University of Molise – michele.modina@unimol.it
- Co-track chair: Gabriele Ianiro, University of Molise – g.ianiro1@studenti.unimol.it
T03_19 – Entrepreneurship for transformations of and through the creative industries
Entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation are strongly intertwined. Various socio-economic transformations (digitization, urbanization, climate change..) trigger innovative practices in the cultural and creative sectors and industries. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are emerging that lead to changes in the value chains of the CCSI. Equally, creativity is considered a key driver for innovation and change. Experimental approaches that involve the arts, culture, heritage, or creativity, seek to play a role in technological, ecological, and spatial transformations as well as organizational and behavioral changes. The track addresses two interconnected themes: Entrepreneurship for transformations of the creative industries, and entrepreneurship for transformations through the creative industries.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth,Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure,Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities,Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production,Goal 13: Climate action
Primary Contact:
Ellen Loots, Erasmus University Rotterdam – loots@eshcc.eur.nl
T03_20 – Theoretical building and new frontiers in entrepreneurhsip
Entrepreneurship as autonomous field of study in the huge management arena has grown rapidly in the last decades. Accordingly different entrepreneurship sub-fields have emerged in some cases without not adequately theoretically grounded in the domain they have declared to be part of. This evolutionary process far from coming to an end is still contributing to move forward entrepreneurship’s frontiers. Thus, this track calls for papers that: (1) set the theoretical boundaries of the entrepreneurship as discipline; (2) contribute to entrepreneurship’s frontiers with reflections, theories testing, empirical analysis on different entrepreneurship’s subfields.
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
Primary Contact:
Massimiliano Vesci, University of Salerno – mvesci@unisa.it