Upcoming Events
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2009 Academy of Management Conference
John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge
SEAANZ Conference 2008
2009 AGSE Conference
EIC Research Seminar Series
EIC Research Seminar Series PowerPoint Presentation template
2009 Academy of Management Conference
The 2009 Academy of Management Annual Meeting is to be held in Chicago ~ August 7 - 11, 2009.
This years' theme is 'Green Management Matters'
environmental managers ~ carbon inventory ~ activism ~ telecommuters ~ stakeholder engagement ~ product stewardship ~ volunteerism ~ zero emissions ~ sustainability ~ design for environment ~ 
sustainable development ~ clean technology ~ biodiversity ~ crisis management ~ deforestation ~ carbon footprint ~ eco efficiency ~ green-collar work ~ alternative energy ~ conservation ~ eco venturing ~ renewable resources ~ natural capital ~ voluntary environmental programs ~ employee values ~ environmental partnerships ~ life cycle analysis ~ ecologically sustainable organizations ~ green jobs ~ ecological literacy ~ green initiatives ~ risk management ~ water scarcity ~ environmental education ~ green teams ~ scenario planning ~ environmental policy ~ invasive species ~ green supply chain ~ personal meaning ~ environmentalists ~ green curriculum ~ employee engagement ~ eco learning ~ climate change ~ green entreprenership ~ recycling ~ eco innovation ~ green politics ~ ecological footprint ~ nutrient loading ~ environmental strategies ~ environmental ethics ~ institutional change ~ environmentally sustainable organizations ~ fisheries collapse ~ change management ~ global alliances ~ nuclear safety ~ ISO 14001 ~ industrial ecosystems ~ emissions trading ~ greenhouse gases ~ energy efficiency ~ green production
Click here for more information on the 2009 Academy of Management Conference Site
John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge
The John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge (previously MOOT CORP® Australia ) is Australia 's only national venture capital competition for graduate students. It is an initiative designed to enhance the quality of entrepreneurship education, to increase the rate of success for new ventures and to extend national and international networks for young entrepreneurs and educators.
University-based teams of up to five members prepare a real-life business plan and present to a group of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and CEOs. These teams vie to win the right to represnet Australia and compete in the MOOT CORP® International Competition, as well as to receive cash prizes and consulting services, to assist commercialisation of their business.
The competition is hosted by the Brisbane Graduate School of Business (BGSB) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and is to be held in Brisbane in early December 2008. During this time, the teams will spend two days competing and networking.
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SEAANZ Conference 2008
This years conference will be held in Sydney, Australia 15th - 17th September 2008 This conference will be hosted by Study Group Australia in collaboration with SEAANZ. Please join researchers, educators, policy makers and business practitioners from Australia and New Zealand at the 21st Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand.
Te theme of the conference is "Small Enterprise in the Digital Age". A key aim of the conference is to bridge the gap between research, practitioners, educationers and policy for the small enterprise. The 2008 SEAANZ Conference in Sydney, Australia will enable you to:
- Meet with leading researchers in the field
- Engage in dialogue on the latest research, policy issues, education and business practitioners
- Network with organizations, institutions and experts from Australia and New Zealand
- Socialize and enjoy the Sydney hospitality and friendly atmosphere
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2009 AGSE Conference
The 6th Annual AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange is to be held at the University of Adelaide, 3-6 February 2009.
This years Co Chairs are Professor Noel Lindsay (University of Adelaide), & Professor Russell Kenley (Swinburne). The program features leading international Keynote Speakers who will discuss key contemporary entrepreneurship issues. And, of course, there is the Doctoral Consortium that will be facilitated by leading researchers who will provide insightful tips about getting through the doctoral process and getting published.
The response to the 2008 AGSE International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange was outstanding. A total of 31 international universities were represented plus 33 Australian/New Zealand universities. There is no doubt that past conferences have been a great success in terms of exchanging ideas and in developing and consolidating our networks. In 2009, we are looking forward to another set of great quality papers that deal with cutting edge scholarly issues.
The 2009 IERE Conference is hosted by the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC) at The University of Adelaide. The University of Adelaide is one of Australia 's oldest Universities, established in 1874, and is a member of Australia 's “Group of 8” research intensive universities. Adelaide has been the home of five Nobel Laureates.
Adelaide 's hospitality and vibrant friendliness will provide a welcome you will remember. Independent surveys consistently rank Adelaide as one of the world's top 10 cities in which to live with its multicultural, affordable and relaxed lifestyle. We look forward to seeing you in Adelaide in February 2009.
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EIC Research Seminars Series
Upcoming Presentations
Past Presentations
26 August 2008
Title: Celebrity Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Study of a Phenomenon in EmergencePresenter: Erik Hunter
Topic: Increasingly, celebrities appear not only as endorsers for products but are apparently involved in entrepreneurial roles—as initiators, part owners and/or in managerial capacities—in the ventures that market the products they promote. Erik calls this phenomenon Celebrity Entrepreneurship. Whether or not this type of involvement on the part of the celebrity is original and genuine, it may be suspected that celebrity entrepreneurs are more effective communicators than typical celebrity endorsers. He argues that this is because celebrity entrepreneurship leads to higher perceptions of a source’s Involvement—an endorser quality hitherto neglected in the marketing communication literature—which in turn affects traditional outcome variables such as AAD (Attitude toward the ad) and ABR (Attitude towards the brand). During the seminar, empirical results and implications from Erik's research on this emerging phenomenon was discussed.
2 July 2008
Presenter: Ben Oviatt
Topic: In this presentation Ben will briefly highlight two other research projects he is currently working on: (1) the formation of international new ventures, and (2) how investors evaluate oral presentations by entrepreneurs.They are rather different topics, but if people are already familiar with some of Ben's research, they will probably want to hear more about international new ventures.The second topic is in the early stages of the research. more ...
9 May 2008
Title: Surfing the Ironing Board: The Representation of Women's Entrepreneurship in German Newspapers'
Presenter: Leona Achtenhagen
Topic: Building on institutional theory, the starting point of this study is the largely unexplored impact which informal institutions might have on entrepreneurial behaviour. We analyze all 4,955 newspaper articles on female entrepreneurs published in the major daily German newspapers over a ten-year period. We argue that media - and the media portrayal of entrepreneurship - can have an important impact on the decision to become entrepreneurially active. Namely, whether or not the representation of entrepreneurship allows the readers to identify with entrepreneurs can influence that decision. more ...
18 April 2008
Title: Organizational Ambidexterity and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Differential Effects on Venturing, Innovation and Renewal Processes
Presenter:Henri Burgers, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University,Netherlands
Topic: This seminar will revolve around a new study that revisits the role of organizational and managerial mechanisms in pursuing corporate entrepreneurship activities. Because corporate entrepreneurship activities are different from ongoing businesses, prior research suggested placing corporate entrepreneurship activities in separated units. However, firms have to offer a wide range of knowledge and resources on which these entrepreneurial activities draw. The problem in that knowledge and resource transfer requires integration, not separation. By drawing on the concept of the ambidextrous organization, we investigate how firms can achieve both separation and integration at the same time. Questions we seek to answer are: What are the effects of configurations of separation and integration mechanisms on corporate entrepreneurship? Do these effects differ for the three dimensions of corporate entrepreneurship, i.e. innovation, corporate venturing, and strategic renewal? more ...
15 February 2008
Title: Who benefits from creativity ?
Presenter: Philipp Koellinger
Topic: We study the distribution of income between entrepreneurs and wage employees in a network-formation model of the labor market. Individuals can exhibit heterogeneity in various dimensions and have different degrees of creativity. Our research explains why gifted individuals may not become entrepreneurs, while many less gifted to - a phenomenon that is lacking in existing models. more ...
Dr Koellinger will be accompanied at this seminar by his co-author Christian Roessler from the University of Queensland.
13 February 2008
Title: High Performance Firms: Gazelles Revisited
Presenter: Zoltan J Acs
Topic: The seminar will revolve around a new study that revisits the role of rapidly growing, high impact firms - so called 'gazelles'. We define high impact firms as enterprises with sale at least doubling over the recent 4-year period and which have an employment growth quantifier of two or greater over the same period. We analyze these firms over the 1994 to 2006 period. We compare three firm size categories to determine where these firms make their impact on the economy. Questions that have until now never been answered are: What are high impact firms before they become high impact firms? What happens to high impact firms after they become high impact firms? more ...
28 November 2007
Topic: Search Routines for Discontinuous Innovation
Presenter: Professor John Bessant, Chair in Innovation Management, Imperial College, London
Innovation can be seen as a problem of search, selection and propagation. It involves a process in which possible threats and opportunities for change are identified within the environment, followed by a set of choice activities which allocate resources to those innovation projects perceived to be of strategic importance. This seminar will explore issues raised for search and selection routines by the challenge of discontinuous innovation. It will draw upon case study research carried out within the Discontinuous Innovation Laboratory project – an international, cross-sectoral learning network involving researchers and a wide range of industrial and public sector organizations. It will discuss a number of case experiences and identify a set of tools which organizations have found helpful to deploy in extending their repertoire of search and selection behaviour. more ...
EIC Research Seminar Series Powerpoint Presentation template
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