MMTC Events

What to Expect
The symposium features a dynamic format:

• Rapid Talks: Each session begins with four 10-minute provocations from invited speakers. These short, focused presentations introduce bold ideas and critical questions to spark curiosity.
• Group Discussions: Following the talks, a 45-minute moderated discussion invites all participants to engage, challenge ideas, and collaboratively explore solutions.

Sessions
The event is structured around four key themes:

1. Green Tech, Gray Areas: Digital Futures in a Finite World
   Exploring the intersection of digital innovation and sustainability, focusing on resource use, ecological impact, and resilience.
2. Work Disrupted: Automation, Agency, and Adaptation
   Examining the future of work in the face of automation and AI, and its impact on wellbeing and agency.
3. Digital Equity: Power, Representation, and Accountability
   Discussing how technology shapes inclusion, representation, and accountability in the digital age.
4. Breaking and Rebuilding: Institutions and Trust in the Digital Age
   Addressing how institutions navigate disruption, rebuild trust, and adapt in an era of rapid transformation.

The External Enablement Framework (EEF) offers novel approaches for studying how business-environmental changes create favorable conditions for entrepreneurial action, and how entrepreneurial agents interact with such changes to launch new ventures and gear them toward success. The EE website External link, opens in new window. showcases the foundational EE papers, a broad set of papers applying these novel tools, and other resources for EE scholarship.

Following previous successful EE workshops, we now invite interested academics to our third EE Research Workshop—this time focusing on using experimental methods for advancing EE research. This theme includes laboratory, field, and natural experiments; conjoint and choice experiment studies; as well as qualitative techniques, verbal protocol analyses and/or interactive simulations as long as they include some experimental elements and manipulations. (Conversely, interview- or survey-based studies of how entrepreneurs might “experiment” their way forward would not be a good fit for this workshop.)

Prior research on “opportunity ideation / identification / evaluation” has frequently applied experimental approaches. We believe the EE framework’s conceptual toolbox lends itself to utilizing such approaches for reaching further and deeper insights. We also believe that experimental techniques can facilitate creative new approaches to many other important aspects of entrepreneurship and business development.

As there may currently be few on-going studies that combine EEF concepts with experimental methods, we invite submissions not only of full draft papers but also of research ideas and research design suggestions to be presented, discussed and enhanced at and through the Workshop. We thus invite submissions that:

• Address topics related to entrepreneurship and dynamic business development
• Use selected concepts from the EEF as vantage points and (aim to) pursue analysis around these concepts to some depth (as opposed to merely labeling an environmental change as ‘EE’)
• Apply experimental data collection methods as described above or aim to do so
• Report their study as a full draft paper (max 40 pages, 12 pt, double-spaced) or as research ideas or design suggestions developed across 5-8 pages, 12 pt, double-spaced)
• Seek to benefit from expert advice on applying the EEF and experimental methods as their research tools

Professors Per Davidsson and Denis Grégoire will lead the Workshop and provide feedback to accepted submissions based on their expertise in external enablement and experimental research.

The Workshop will run lunch to lunch (CET; GMT+1/UTC+1) on December 9-10, 2024. Participation will be possible on-site or online. We can offer free accommodation (but not travel) for a limited number of on-site participants.

A helpful video from Denis Grégoire’s pre-workshop online session offers advice on experimental research on entrepreneurship in general and external enablers in particular. The video is available HERE External link, opens in new window.

We look forward to seeing you at the MMTC External Enablement (EE) Research Workshop 3.

In today's interconnected world, the journey towards embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion across different levels of the economy is both vital and challenging. This conference brings together researchers, practitioners, and experts, including a keynote from Sweden's Minister for Gender Equality and Working Life, Paulina Brandberg, aiming to deepen our understanding of diversity and inclusion from national to individual levels. Join us for a day filled with insightful discussions intended to inspire new thoughts and generate discussions to cultivate inclusive excellence.

Registration

Last day for registration: 19th March. Please use the registration link below.

Limited number of places.

Speakers, Sharks, and Panel Guests

• Per Davidsson, Jönköping International Business School, Queensland University of Technology
• Howard Aldrich, University of North Caroline
• Dominic Chalmer, University of Glasgow
• Lucia Naldi, Jönköping International Business School
• Sarfraz Ali Kyanir, Queensland University of Technology
• Jan Recker, University of Hamburg

Submission process

1. Abstract – 150-200 words (Pitch an early-stage research idea, and receive expert advice on how to take your research further)
2. Extended Abstract – 600-800 words (Present an ‘external enablement of entrepreneurship’ project or a project on environmental change that you think of framing as external enablement, and receive expert advice on how to take your research further)

The deadline for applications is September 1st. You can apply to be part of the workshop and submit your abstract via the External enablement website External link, opens in new window.

Attendance is possible without submitting an abstract (registration required)

For further information contact Madeleine Meurer : madeleine.meurer@ju.se

MMTC Idea Development Workshop on the Entrepreneurship Industry 17-18th of August 2023

In connection with the call for papers for the SBEJ Special issue on The Emergence of an Entrepreneurship Industry: Dynamics and Consequences External link, opens in new window., MMTC is hosting an idea development workshop.

Join International guests and JIBS scholars for a lunch-to-lunch workshop, discussing the entrepreneurship industry and have the opportunity to develop potential paper ideas on the subject.

Topics that will be addressed during the workshop include:

• Teaching about the entrepreneurship industry
• Veblenian entrepreneurship and
• Methodological challenges in researching the entrepreneurship industry.

For more information contact @Christian Sandström

Speakers and Guests

• Christian Sandström, Jönköping International Business School
• Per Davidsson, Jönköping International Business School
• Rasmus Hartmann, Copenhagen Business School
• Richard Hunt, Virginia Polytech
• Olof Hallonsten, Lund University
• Anna Brattström, Lund University
  
• Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics