2007 Headlines
Cornell University's Johnson School to Co-host Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship
Conference Welcomes Entrepreneurship Thought Leaders to Ithaca on July 22-24, 2007
Ithaca, NY - Much of the existing academic research on entrepreneurship focuses on what makes the individual successful. Does the person have the right background, the right tolerance for risk, or the right mix of creativity and business savvy to successfully launch a new business? Less research has been conducted on how institutions shape entrepreneurial opportunities and actions. The Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship being held in Ithaca, NY on July 22 to 24, 2007 is the first conference of its kind to draw together leading experts to explore how institutional factors such as social and environmental movements, national regulatory regimes, or cultural values affect the success of entrepreneurial ventures.
Organized by Wesley Sine, professor of management and organizations at the Johnson School at Cornell University, and Robert David, professor of strategy and organizations at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, the conference brings together 50 leading entrepreneurship scholars from around the globe. The conference is sponsored by the Johnson School at Cornell University, Entrepreneurship@Cornell, and the McGill Centre for Strategy Studies in Organization, and will include presentation of 30 papers by junior and senior scholars and a doctoral student workshop.
Leading entrepreneurship scholars including Howard Aldrich (U. North Carolina), Neil Fligstein (UC Berkeley), Mary Ann Glynn (Boston College), Steve Mezias (New York University), Tim Pollock (Pennsylvania State University), Donald Siegel (University of California at Riverside), and Pamela Tolbert (Cornell University) will facilitate small group discussions and reviews of current research. A select group of papers will be published in a special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work focused on institutions and entrepreneurship. A second conference is planned for 2008 in Montreal.
For additional information, or to attend all or part of the conference, please contact Wesley Sine at wds4@cornell.edu or 607-254-1336.
