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This Interest Group focuses on entrepreneurial behavior both in new ventures and established organizations. Its purpose is to help create useful knowledge on effective entrepreneurial strategies. Some of the important questions that it seeks to address include: How can we strengthen the theorizing on entrepreneurial activity? How does a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship differ from other theories on competitive advantage? What are the appropriate research methods for a scientific study of the entrepreneurial process? What is the role of strategy in a new venture firm and how does it differ from that in an established firm?

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Announcing the SMS 2025 Election Results!

2025 IG&C Business Meetings

Open Call for Applicants to Join the SMS Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee

Are startups more vulnerable to innovation imitation?

How do Human Capital and Pro-Market Institutions Shape Ambitious Entrepreneurship in Good and Crisis Times?

How Entrepreneurs Develop Diverse Social Ties, even in Divided Societies

Are Family Businesses Friendlier to Female Leadership?

Growth mindset training enhances entrepreneurial programs by 50%

Why Big Businesses Struggle to Hire Entrepreneurs

SEJ: Why Do So Many Businesses Fail? A New Study Suggests It Has to Do with When They’re Born

SEJ: A New Study Explores how Venture Team Membership Dynamics Impact Innovation

SEJ Video Abstract | The Signaling Effect of Entrepreneurship Subsidies on IPO Investor Valuation

SEJ Video Abstract | Born into chaos: How founding conditions shape whether ventures survive/thrive

How a Business’s Founding Conditions Affect Its Success

Why “Born Digital Firms” Should Have a Physical Presence in Foreign Markets

What Makes Social Entrepreneurship So Strong in Certain Western Societies?

How to nurture and develop your ecosystem: Insights for ecosystem architects

E&S Insight Series: Micro-foundations of a Theory-Based View of the Firm

E&S Insight Series: The Spatial Ecology of Entrepreneurship

E&S Insights Series: Organizing for Innovation: The Entrepreneurial Perspective

Unemployment Benefits May Not be so Beneficial to Would-be Entrepreneurs

SMS PhD Chats: Planning Your Dissertation

E&S Insight Series: Founders, Joiners, and Entrepreneurial Human Capital

SMS PhD Chats: Job Talks and Visits

E&S Research Seminar Series – How Founder Experience Shapes Entry Strategy

E&S Research Seminar Series – Knowledge Transfer and the Rise of Superstar Firms – A Panel Analysis of Patent Citation Relationships

E&S Research Seminar Series – The Mighty Girl: Family Vulnerability and Gender Homophily in Male-Led Ventures

E&S Research Seminar Series – Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas

E&S Research Seminar Series – Learning from Narratives: How Developing ‘The Pitch’ Stimulates Learning in New Ventures

E&S Insights Webinar: From Ideas to New Ventures

E&S Insights Webinar: Human Enterprise and Strategic Entrepreneurship

E&S Insights Webinar: Measuring How Firms Use New Technologies

Small Business Grants are Everywhere in 2021, But Do They Actually Work?

E&S Insights Webinar: Reimagining Capitalism

Does Social Entrepreneurship Training Work? – Only if Carefully Designed

When Capital Does not Matter in Business Creation

Dumb Money or Smart Money? Meta-analytically Unpacking Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Performance

E&S Insights Webinar: Strategy in Nascent Markets

Meeting the Needs of SMEs in the Emerging Market Context

When capital does not matter in business creation

E&S Research Seminar Series – Does Government Fund the Best Entrepreneurial Ventures? The Case of the Small Business Innovation Research Program

E&S Research Seminar Series – Should We Attribute Exceptional Success to Skill or to Luck? Empirical Evidence from Entertainment, Innovation, Auto Racing, and Firm Performance

E&S Research Seminar Series – Spanning Two Worlds?: Corporate Accelerators and Corporate Venture Capital in Innovation Portfolios

The Story behind the SEJ Special Issue on “Catalyzing Change and Innovation in Women’s Entrepreneurship”

Do Differences Among Accelerators Explain Differences in the Performance of Member Ventures?

E&S Research Seminar Series – Implications of Priority Access in Markets with Experts: Evidence from Online Marketplace Lending

Entrepreneurial Judgment and Strategic Entrepreneurship

Decision Weaving: Entrepreneurs as both “Experiential Learners” and “Master Planners”

What do Venture Capitalists, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Martin Scorsese Have in Common?

Strategic Responses to Crisis

Fear vs. Hope: Which is Stronger in Venture Termination/Escalation Decisions?

Directed by Words: How Entrepreneurs Rely on Salient Frames to Devise a Market Entry Strategy

Searching for a Strategy but Afraid of Commitment: Reflections on ‘Foundations of Entrepreneurial Strategy’ by Gans, Stern, and Wu (2019)

Reflections on Hannah and Eisenhardt’s “How Firms Navigate Cooperation and Competition in Nascent Ecosystems”: Exploring Bottlenecks as a Central Concept in Innovation Ecosystem Theory

Research Chatter 3: Can Big Companies Succeed as Venture Capitalists?

Research Chatter 1: Venture Accelerators

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Group Leadership Details

Annamaria Conti

Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group Chair
IE University

Luca Berchicci

Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group Program Chair
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Colleen Cunningham

Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group Associate Program Chair
University of Utah, Eccles School of Business

REPRESENTATIVES AT LARGE

Aldona Kapacinskaite


INSEAD

Amisha Miller


Boston University

Sandeep Pillai


Tulane University

Nataliya Wright


Columbia Business School

Valentina Assenova


The Wharton School

Elie SUNG


HEC Paris

APPOINTED OFFICERS

Curba Lampert

Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group Engagement Officer
Florida International University