At the recent Academy of Management conference in Boston, ACE Director Per Davidsson was presented with the Entrepreneurship Division’s Award for “Best Conceptual Paper”. This was in competition with 613 papers submitted to the conference, approximately a third of which were conceptual – that is, idea developing rather than fact finding – papers. The Award comes with a plaque and a cheque for $1,500. Based on ratings by three reviewers a shortlist of papers was sent to the Division’s Research Committee, which decided on the winner. Following standard academic protocol, neither reviewers nor Research Committee members knew who authored the nominated papers.
The awarded paper is entitled “Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship Nexus: A Re-Conceptualization”. It builds on an influential forerunner published 12 years ago and seeks to stake out a more fruitful way for future entrepreneurship research to disentangle how characteristics of the entrepreneur(s), the venture idea they are working on, and the fit between the two influences subsequent action and outcomes. (To request a copy of this paper from the author please email ace.business@qut.edu.au)
The 20,000 member strong Academy of Management is the largest and most important association for management scholars in the world. Each year, its annual conference gathers some 7-8,000 leading researchers from all over the world. In the last decade, the Entrepreneurship Division – for which Per has previously been the elected Chair – has grown to become one of the largest and most dynamic in the Academy.
Congratulations Per!
Johan Wiklund