CFP: Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

Call For Papers
Cornell-McGill Conference on Institutions and Entrepreneurship
July 23-24, 2007
Ithaca, New York
Deadline: February 1st, 2007
 
This conference is intended to further the institutional approach to
entrepreneurial studies.  An institutional approach to entrepreneurship
shifts attention away from the personal traits and backgrounds of
individual entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape
entrepreneurial opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate
their cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and how actors
modify and build institutions to support new types of organizations.
 
A wide variety of topics fit within this broad theme. Some illustrative
examples include:

* the creation of new institutional structures to facilitate the
development of new kinds of organizations;
* the role of government policies in helping (or hindering) new
ventures;
* the use of symbols to legitimate novel organizations;
* the role of norms, values, and traditions in facilitating (or
impeding) entrepreneurship;
* deinstitutionalization of an established practice as a form of
entrepreneurial opportunity;
* the creation of standards to support new types of economic activities
* the construction of new classifications of professions that support
the founding of new categories of organizations.

The conference will be limited to 20 papers. To promote interaction
between senior and junior scholars, half of these slots will be reserved
for papers with an untenured (or recently tenured) first author.  Papers
will be accepted based on competitive submission. A small number of
leading scholars will facilitate the paper sessions, these include Dick
Scott, Howard Aldrich, and Pamela Tolbert among others.  The conference
will pay for two nights of hotel (one room) per paper. A select group of
papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Research in
the Sociology of Work focused on the topic of institutions and
entrepreneurship. A second conference is planned for 2008 in Montreal.
 
Please send a full paper to laura.ierfino at mail.mcgill.ca by February
1st, 2007.  Decisions will be made March 15th, 2007.
 
We look forward to seeing you in Ithaca!
 
Wesley D. Sine
Johnson Graduate School of Management   
Cornell University

Robert J. David
Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University