The Adam Smith Business School hosts top theorists

Issued: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:21:00 BST

Top theorists in international entrepreneurship research visited the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School for a conference on High Potential Concepts, Phenomena and Theories in International Entrepreneurship Research.

The Centre for Business Education and Research (CIBER) - University of Colorado and the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice have collaborated with the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School to host and sponsor this invitation-only conference. Professor Ray Bagby, editor of  the journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice sponsored a celebratory dinner after the event in the prestigious Turnbull Room in the university.

The aim of the conference was to advance research and theory in international entrepreneurship through the cross fertilisation of ideas and conceptual mapping of methods and theories from major established domains in management research, emphasising always the international context.

The conference, which attracted theorists from around the world, took place on 14th and 15th June in the Adam Smith Business School. The generous sponsorship allowed the organisers to bring to the University some of the world’s top scholars in international business entrepreneurship and management.

The invited authors are known for their advances in theory development in the strategic management area and have outstanding publication records in world class journals. Most also hold positions of influence in leading scholarly organisations, at top-ranked business schools and are on the editorial boards of leading journals.

The conference was co-hosted by Professors Marian V Jones, University of Glasgow, Patricia McDougall-Covin, Indiana University; Manuel Serapio, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), University of Colorado Denver; and Professor Ray Bagby, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University and Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Those giving invited papers or acting as invited discussants included from North America: Professors Sharon Alvarez and J.B. Barney, Ohio State University; Jeffrey Covin, Indiana University; Stephanie Fernhaber, Butler University; Rebecca Reuber, University of Toronto; Rod McNaughton, University of Waterloo; Saras D Sarasvathy, University of Virginia; David Teece, University of California Berkeley, and Shaker Zahra, University of Minnesota. From Europe and beyond presenters and discussants included Dr Lucrezia Casulli, University of Newcastle; and Professors Jean-François Hennart, Tilburg University; Galina Shirokova, University of St Petersburg; Roger Strange, University of Sussex; Ivo Zander, University of Uppsala and Antonella Zucchella, University of Pavia as well as Professors Pavlos Dimitratos and Marian Jones from the Adam Smith Business School.