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Organizer: Maija Renko, U. of Illinois at Chicago
Organizer: Friederike Welter, IfM Bonn / U. of Siegen
Organizer: Norris F. Krueger, School of Advanced Studies, U. of Phoenix / Entrepreneurship Northwest
Presenter: Yasuyuki Motoyama, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Presenter: Gabi Anja Kaffka, U. of Twente
Presenter: Amanda Bullough, U. of Delaware
Presenter: Dane Stangler, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Presenter: Colin Jones, Queensland U. of Technology
Presenter: Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer, OECD Economics Department
Presenter: Dianne HB Welsh, U. of North Carolina, Greensboro
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| Reflecting recent conversations on the legitimacy and impact of business schools, this PDW focuses on discussing the impact and relevance of entrepreneurship as a business discipline. What is the role of entrepreneurship scholarship and education vis-à-vis practicing entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial communities, policy and especially students? The relevance of entrepreneurship education is brought to question by many practitioners who see that entrepreneurship is an art rather than science. In addition to issues related to external legitimacy, entrepreneurship scholarship is perceived to be phenomenon-focused and atheoretical even by many in the academia. So what do we need entrepreneurship education and research for? What will entrepreneurship scholarship look like in the future as lean entrepreneurs learn by doing while scholars use increasingly sophisticated empirical methods to analyze larger and larger datasets? More so than many other disciplines, entrepreneurship is expected to have immediate relevance for practitioners, policy makers, and students. At the same time, the increasingly uniform incentive systems at business schools around the world reward those scholars who publish their research in lofty academic “A” journals. This PDW engages participants in a discussion on the relevance and impact of entrepreneurship scholarship and leaves them with action items for personal development in this area. |
| Search Terms: Relevance | Impact | Legitimacy |
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