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 (2026-2027):
SIG Chair, Damiano Petrolo (Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale) damiano.petrolo@uniupo.it
SIG Programme Chair, Leonie Baldacchino (The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta) leonie.baldacchino@um.edu.mt
Paper Development Workshops Officers:
Laëtitia Gabay Mariani (Kedge Business School) laetitia.gabaymariani@kedgebs.com
Francesca Sanguineti (Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy) francesca.sanguineti@unipv.it
Sara Sassetti (University of Pisa) sara.sassetti@unipi.it
Benedikt Unger (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) benedikt.Unger@student.unibz.it
Communication Officers:
Alessia Munnia (Università di Catania, Italy) alessia.munnia@phd.unict.it
Francesco Russo (Università di Catania, Italy) francesco.russo@phd.unict.it
Past Chair, Diego Matricano (Università degli Studi della Campania, Italy) diego.matricano@unicampania.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
Short description:
The SIG Entrepreneurship General Track aims to foster an ongoing and constructive dialogue among entrepreneurship scholars and to advance research relevant to entrepreneurship theory and practice. It is intended to capture both new and emerging research areas and classical domains of entrepreneurship. In line with our mission of methodological, theoretical, and empirical pluralism, we welcome contributions from all areas of entrepreneurship not explicitly covered by other SIG tracks. In line with the EURAM 2027 theme “Rising Above”, the track also welcomes research on how entrepreneurship responds to uncertainty and disruption, fosters resilience, challenges established assumptions, and contributes to sustainable futures.
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 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goal.
For more information contact:
Damiano Petrolo, University of Eastern Piedmont – damiano.petrolo@uniupo.it
ST03_01 / ST06_01/ST13_01 – Business Model – Strategy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Venturing (co-sponsored ENT / INNO / SM SIGs)
Short description:
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
For more information contact:
Sascha Klein, University of Vechta – sascha.klein@uni-vechta.de
ST03_02 – Digital Technologies and Entrepreneurship Processes: From Innovation Lab to Market
Short description:
From AI and blockchain to data platforms and virtual collaboration tools, digital technologies continue to impact and reshape entrepreneurship processes. They influence how individuals identify opportunities, mobilize resources, and scale innovations to markets. This track invites contributions that bridge classical process perspectives with emerging insights into digital transformation, platform-based business models, and technology-enabled entrepreneurial activity. We particularly welcome work that advances theoretical development or provides novel empirical insights into how digitalization is redefining the fluxes, flows, and trajectories of entrepreneurial processes.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Diego Matricano, Department of Management, Università degli Studi della Campania – diego.matricano@unicampania.it
ST03_03 – Entrepreneurial Cognition and Behaviour
Short description:
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, often occurring under uncertainty. Scholarly studies on various facets of entrepreneurial cognition and behaviour – including intuition, rationality, cognitive versatility, opportunity identification-exploitation, imagination, prospection/futures-thinking, creativity, trust, negotiation, conflict management, perspicacity, metacognition, and neurodivergence – offer 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
For more information contact:
Leonie Baldacchino, The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta – leonie.baldacchino@um.edu.mt
ST03_04 – Entrepreneurial Finance
Short description:
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, increasing economic, geopolitical, and technological uncertainty has reshaped entrepreneurial ecosystems, highlighting the importance of resilient financing strategies and sustainable growth paths for startups and innovative ventures.
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
For more information contact:
Francesca Tenca, University of Eastern Piedmont, Department of Business and Economics – francesca.tenca@uniupo.it
ST03_05 – Entrepreneurship, Regions & Regional Development
Short description:
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 15: Life on land;Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Marina Dabic, University of Ljubljana , School of Economics and Business – mdabic@net.efzg.hr
On the occasion of the EURAM 2026 conference, this standing track was merged with ST03_07 – Growth Strategies & Internationalization for SMEs.
ST03_06 – Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Short description:
This year’s EURAM general theme, “Rising Above – Embracing Resilience, Reimagining History, and Rethinking Management for a Sustainable Future,” invites us to question inherited assumptions about organizing. For social and sustainable entrepreneurship, rising above means not only withstanding shocks but confronting historical legacies of extraction and exclusion and reimagining futures that are regenerative and just. Our track explores how entrepreneurs and organizations build resilience as a socially embedded process, engage critically with the past, and create pathways for lasting impact. We welcome conceptual and empirical papers offering diverse perspectives and support scholars at all career stages in advancing this conversation.
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
For more information contact:
Nicole Siebold, Aarhus University – nicole.siebold@mgmt.au.dk
ST03_07 – SME Growth and Internationalization in a Changing Global Economy
Short description:
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.
For more information contact:
Giovanna Magnani , University of Pavia, giovanna.magnani@unipv.it
ST03_07 - SME Growth and Internationalization in a Changing Global Economy
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SIG TRACKS
T01_07 / T02_05 / T03_08 / T10_ 05 / T11_05 / T12_ 03 / T13_10 Action Research in Management: Approaches for Greater Research Impact upon Practice (co-sponsored by B4S & CoGo & ENT & PO & PM&NPM & RP&RM & SM SIGs)
Short description:
Action Research (AR) provides a collaborative, cyclic method for helping organizations steer through today’s complexity of geopolitical shocks, digital upheaval, and regulatory turbulence. It moves iteratively between practice and theory, resonating with real impactful and phenomenon-driven research, and bridging academic knowledge with organizational practice. This track welcomes methodological contributions on rigorous AR design and evaluation, and practical contributions on AR research protocols organization. Aligned with the conference theme of “rising above,” the track explores how AR addresses grand challenges for improved articulation between management sciences and practice for a greater impact on society.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 4: Quality education;Goal 5: Gender equality;Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Miriana Ferrara , University of Salerno, mferrara@unisa.it
T03_09 Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Short description:
Over the past two decades, entrepreneurial ecosystems have emerged as a central framework for understanding how context shapes entrepreneurship, innovation, and regional development. Yet, important questions remain regarding how ecosystems emerge, evolve, and create sustainable impact across diverse settings, especially during the AI digital evolution. This track welcomes research adopting multi-level, multi-actor, and process perspectives on ecosystem governance, legitimacy, and dynamics. We particularly encourage contributions on deeptech, sustainable, rural, and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems, including studies of disadvantaged entrepreneurs and underrepresented contexts. Comparative, conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions advancing ecosystem theory and practice are especially welcome.
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.
For more information contact:
Christina Theodoraki , IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, christina.theodoraki@iae-aix.com
T03_10 Academic Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education
Short description:
Universities are key agents in the promotion of entrepreneurship. The “third mission” emphasizes their role in fostering 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 from authors, who have looked at it through diverse research perspectives and with distinct 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 4: Quality education;Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals.
For more information contact:
T03_11 Women Entrepreneurs’ Resilience: Between Care and Regeneration for a Sustainable Future
Short description:
How can entrepreneurship rise above disruption and extractivist logics? This track explores how women entrepreneurs develop resilient, care-based, and regenerative practices in response to systemic crises. By bridging gender, sustainability, and entrepreneurship research, we invite contributions examining alternative models of value creation grounded in resilience, community, and long-term transformation, including studies drawing on historical cases or fictional scenarios
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 5: Gender equality;Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 13: Climate action.
For more information contact:
Mathieu Dunes , UPJV-IAE Amiens – LEFMI Research Lab UE4286, matdu8033@yahoo.com
T03_12 Reimagining Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Culture and Creative Sectors
Short description:
Entrepreneurship in the arts and cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) creates value beyond economic returns through the combination of artistic, social and cultural missions with entrepreneurial practice. In line with EURAM 2027’s ‘Rising Above’ theme, this track explores how entrepreneurship in the CCSI fosters resilience, reimagines ways of organizing, and contributes to sustainable and regenerative futures. We invite research on artists, creative entrepreneurs and cultural organizations, resilient business models, cross-sector collaborations, alternative forms of organizing, and circular and regenerative entrepreneurship, advancing new perspectives on value creation, governance and entrepreneurship in times of societal transitions.
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.
For more information contact:
Ellen Loots , Erasmus University Rotterdam, loots@eshcc.eur.nl
T03_13 Female Entrepreneurship
Short description:
More than thirty years have passed since the first study on female entrepreneurship was published and since then an outpouring of research on the topic has emerged. Interestingly, to date, some pioneering scholars are contributing to moving the field ahead 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.
For more information contact:
Sara Poggesi , Tor Vergata University, sara.poggesi@uniroma2.it
T03_14 Macro-preneurship and the Entrepreneurial State: Global Models of Policy-driven Economic Transformation
Short description:
This track explores macro-preneurship, where states act as entrepreneurial agents through strategic ventures that catalyze national transformation across sectors. These initiatives are part of a broader state-led model of economic transformation aimed at shaping the future toward a knowledge-based economy. We invite research on globally relevant models of macro-level entrepreneurial governance, including their effects on startups, intrapreneurship, and international management across sectors such as tourism, logistics, supply chains, education, entertainment, energy, health, and creative industries. It also considers how state-led ventures support the transition toward green growth, environmental innovation, and long-term sustainability across sectors.
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 11: Sustainable cities and communities;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 13: Climate action;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Bassem Nasri , Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd University, bnasri@pmu.edu.sa
T03_15 AI Transformation: Reconfiguring Organizations, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Ecosystems
Short description:
Artificial intelligence is transforming how organizations and entrepreneurs identify opportunities, make decisions, organize work, innovate, and create value. This topic invites research on AI transformation as a reconfiguration of capabilities, routines, business models, entrepreneurial processes, interorganizational relationships, and innovation systems. We welcome studies examining enabling effects, including accelerated learning, creativity, experimentation, productivity, and scaling, as well as emerging risks such as algorithmic control, capability asymmetries, data concentration, platform dependency, exclusion, and deskilling. At the ecosystem level, contributions may examine actor interdependencies, resource and knowledge flows, governance, and value appropriation. Contributions may adopt conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, comparative, longitudinal, or mixed-method approaches.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Daniel Schallmo , University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, daniel.schallmo@hnu.de
T03_16 Authoring the Unbuilt: Entrepreneurship and Deep-Tech Futures
Short description:
Technological futures are not merely discovered but actively constructed. Especially in deep-tech entrepreneurship, ventures often operate for years on credible claims about possible futures rather than demonstrated products, making narratives strategic assets that channel investment, legitimacy, and regulation. This track examines the entrepreneurial authorship of deep-tech futures: how founders construct, stabilize, and institutionalize particular visions while rendering alternatives invisible, and how anticipatory capabilities such as strategic foresight and futures literacy can reopen foreclosed possibilities. We invite conceptual, empirical, and methodological contributions that connect narrative agency to material outcomes and examine the power and distributive dimensions of entrepreneurial future-making.
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth;Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure;Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
For more information contact:
Laura Bechthold , Bavarian Foresight-Institute, TH Ingolstadt, laura.bechthold@thi.de
T03_17 Designing Human Futures: Life Design, Flourishing and Human Development Under Uncertainty
Short description:
This track invites conceptual, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions on how entrepreneurial thinking and action can support meaningful, sustainable, and flourishing lives, careers, organizations, and societies under uncertainty. We welcome research on life design, entrepreneurial agency, opportunity creation, meaningful work, well-being, positive psychology, career construction, Inner Development Goals, Live Worth Living, identity development, resilience, and human flourishing. The track aims to connect currently fragmented scholarly conversations across entrepreneurship, organization studies, HRM, education, vocational psychology, and human development. It seeks to foster a vibrant research community exploring how individuals and organizations can navigate disruption, create responsible value, and shape sustainable futures.
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 10: Reducing inequalities;Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals.
For more information contact:
Bettina Maisch , Munich University of Applied Sciences, bettina.maisch@hm.edu