Just a friendly nudge to encourage you to participate in the 2013 Division and Interest Group elections.

The election site has been open for a couple of weeks now. We are seeing a steady increase in the number of members casting votes but we are still well below historic levels, where ENT traditionally does better than other Divisions in election participation and member satisfaction with how elections have been run by the Division. The Nomination Committee has - with input from members - worked hard to keep up the latter - now it's up to you members to make sure participation beats historical heights (and other Divisions!).

This year we elect a) PDW Chair (who will also proceed into the 5-year leadership cycle), and b) 3 Representatives-at-Large.

To convince you to vote, please consider that:

- It is important that elected officers represent the preferences of our members
- It is important that elected officers feel they have a mandate from the membership
- It is simply the right thing to do

And if you’re still not convinced:
- voting makes a great break from grading papers….

- when you have cast your vote, the clever AoM software makes sure you will not receive any further reminders about this election...

So please vote NOW to help select the future leaders of your Division or Interest Group. Please visit http://apps.aomonline.org/DivElection to cast your vote today.

The election website provides a secure, simple way to vote. The ENT elections close by May 16, so please vote today!

Thank you,

Mike Wright
On behalf of the ENT Division Nominating Committee

The Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw-Hill

Present the

Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award

by Linda Edelman

The Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw Hill present an annual award ($1500) to the person(s) who develops and implements an innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy for either graduate or undergraduate education. The innovation must be a full course that is focused on entrepreneurship. Although innovations in a program of courses or in individual exercises are certainly valuable, they will not be considered for this award.

The purpose of the award is to encourage not only innovations in pedagogy but also the dissemination of such innovations. Criteria for evaluation of nominations include (1) the novelty / innovativeness of the pedagogy, (2) transferability to other schools or professors and (3) support for the nomination from students, alumni, colleagues, administrators, the community, etc.

Self-nominated proposals are encouraged!  Nominations should include the following materials:

by Moren Lévesque

The Entrepreneurship Division (ENT) of the Academy of Management would like to welcome members who are new to the Academy or the division at the annual New Member Meeting Point event. The meeting will be held from 4:30-6:00pm on Saturday, August 10, 2013 in the American Adventure Parlor at the American Adventure Rotunda of the Epcot Center in Orlando. New members will have the opportunity to interact with more experienced Academy members and other newcomers in a small roundtable environment.

Attendees will discuss items ranging from research to navigating the larger academy meetings. Please watch your email for a formal invitation and registration form at the beginning of June. If you would like more information about the event, please contact Dilene Crockett at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Moren Lévesque at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We hope you will join us for an afternoon of networking and exchanging ideas.

by Dawn DeTienne

As I look back on my three years as Chair of the Communications Committee, I think we did some good things, learned a lot, and had fun! Which as I reflect on it, these three criteria (good work, learning, fun) probably guide much of what I choose to do. So thank you to all of you who make this three years rewarding. I especially want to thank Jason for all of his patience in working with me as our Webmaster and Fedor for his willingness to take over the Chair position. Communications will continue to be a critical dimension of the division and one in which I believe we can positively impact our members.

Q1. Background

You mean, “What made me go down this crazy academic road?”

In hindsight, so much of my path seems both a function of following the Next Logical Step and a function of serendipity. So many pieces of the puzzle crept in before I even knew it. My first entrepreneurial experience happened before I could spell it. But it led me to a fateful interview with the new chaired professor of entrepreneurship at Ohio State, Al Shapero. Always nice to meet rock stars, especially those who saw great potential.

I have never seen myself as particularly adept at identifying and acting on opportunities, so I’ve always been fascinated by people who were healthy optimists and by people who create value for others. My Dad was in sales, and he always stressed that the value proposition is never for us, it’s for the customer. That helped internalize that it’s not just social ventures that do that, it’s that any good entrepreneur is about creating value for others. There are so many other lessons that I now recognize as helping me “get” the expert entrepreneurial mindset.

Another formative experience came “in exile” in Montana. I met an expert on early childhood education who turned me on to all the amazing work being done in educational psychology, especially developmental and cognitive developmental psychology. Why does our best pedagogy do so well? There are very good reasons. That knowledge raises the bar for all of us, but it helped drive my entrepreneurship curiosity increasingly deeper into cognitive science.

Andrew Maxwell interviewed Professor Per Davidsson, Director, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, QUT Business School Management, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research.

http://division.aomonline.org/ent/

Be sure to check back as the Division will continue to post Andrew Maxwell's interviews. Click here for previous videos with other notable scholars in the series.

Lasandahasi Ranmuthumalie (Muthu) de Silva

The total number of submissions to the AoM meetings in 2013 was 671, which include 625 papers, 25 PDW workshops and 21 symposia. Categories with a substantial increase in submissions were Personality (from 11 to 24), Opportunity evaluation (from 9 to 24), Internationalization (from 14 to 26) and Learning/ Knowledge (from 19 to 45). Two additional categories were added: Resource constrained entrepreneurship/ Bricolage (21 submissions) and Emotion/Affect/Passion (28 submissions). There has been a decrease in submissions in Personal networks (from 58 to 39), Recognition/Discovery/Creation (from 59 to 41) and Value creation (from 31 to 20).

Only 604 volunteered to review submissions, despite online pleas for more reviewers. The total number of review assignments was 1740, which include 1681 papers and 59 symposia. The average number of submissions per reviewer was 3, and that of reviewers per submission was 2.7.

Lasandahasi Ranmuthumalie (Muthu) de Silva

The Winter Executive Committee Meeting of the Entrepreneurship Division was held on the 25^th and 26^th of January 2013. Some aspects discussed in the meeting were:

• The election process of Committee Chairs
• Heizer and NFIB Awards
• Need for re-examining the number of committees in the Division
• Statistics on submissions for Academy of Management Conference
• The status of sponsorships
• The allocation of funding for worthwhile projects
• Committee reports
• Need for an ‘Ethics Chair’
• Possible partnership opportunities with the OMT Division
• Possibilities of introducing additional awards
• Virtual Open Space Initiative