At this year's Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Katja Bringmann and I organize a panel symposium on New Trends in Entrepreneurial Finance Research. More specifically, in acknowledging the disruptive nature of new trends in the entrepreneurial finance literature, this panel symposium aims to advance scholarly research by informing scholars on specific research opportunities and challenges in the field. Specifically, an increasing focus on addressing (i) enduring (grand) challenges, (ii) environmental, social, and governance aspects, and (iii) artificial intelligence have created a promising and exciting space to study entrepreneurial finance.
We have invited five leading experts in the field who, collectively, have published 282 papers, have been cited over 28,000 times, and serve(d) on the editorial board of leading entrepreneurship, strategy, and management journals, including Academy of Management Review, Management Science, Organization Science, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Research Policy, and many others. In sum, this panel should again invigorate a pronounced and interactive discussion on how to move the field forward.
Time and location: Tuesday 13 August from 13h15-14h45 (EDT) at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Skyway 272
Katja Bringmann
Ghent University
Katja.Bringmann@UGent.be
Jeroen Verbouw
Tilburg University & Ghent University
H.W.Verbouw@TilburgUniversity.edu
Jorge Guzman is an associate professor at the Management Division in Columbia Business School. Jorge received his PhD from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and was previously a postdoc at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a lecturer at MIT Sloan. His research focuses on entrepreneurship policy, regional entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial strategy. He was previously involved in the Boston startup ecosystem, and has been an advisor to numerous startups on varied topics, and to regional and national policy agencies on the design of entrepreneurship ecosystems.
Lisa Hehenberger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and General Management at ESADE Business School and Director of its Center for Social Impact. She is a renowned expert on social entrepreneurship, venture philanthropy, impact investment, and impact measurement. Dr. Hehenberger is the Chief Impact Advisor of Oryx Impact, a fund of funds investing in African impact funds, a member of the Board of Directors of the GSMA Foundation, and sits on the impact committees of Rubio Impact Ventures and Suma Capital. She is on the Scientific Board of the OECD Global Action 'Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems', is a member of CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, and is a member of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium set up by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.
Paul Momtaz currently works at TUM School of Management where he holds the “Professur für Entrepreneurial Finance.” Previously, he held the Chair of Private Equity at the House of Finance in Frankfurt, Professor Momtaz's hometown in Germany, where he had returned at the onset of the pandemic. He obtained his Ph.D. at UCLA and has affiliations with the Wharton School as the Metzler Visiting Professor in the Management Department and as a Research Associate with the Centre of Blockchain Technologies at University College London’s Computer Science Department.
Alex Murray’s research focuses on developing theoretical frameworks to explain how entrepreneurs mobilize resources from distributed resource providers and how distributed resource providers use novel technologies to coordinate resource allocations. He addresses empirical and theoretical puzzles stemming from the technologically-driven phenomena of crowdfunding, blockchain-based firms, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Theoretically, he contributes to the literatures on organizational theory, strategy, and entrepreneurship by unpacking how entrepreneurs obtain and maintain support from many distributed resource providers over time. Methodologically, he complements inductive field-based approaches with statistical analyses to develop novel insights and advance existing theories in intriguing ways.
Olav Sorenson is currently the Joseph Jacobs Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Professor of Strategy and of Sociology, and Faculty Director of the Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. His primary stream of research pertains to economic geography, focusing on how entrepreneurship influences the growth and competitiveness of regions within countries and on why some regions appear more supportive to entrepreneurs than others. In recognition for this research, Professor Sorenson received the 2018 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. In total, he has delivered more than 400 research presentations and has had more than 100 papers published on these subjects, in journals such as Science, the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Research Policy. He serves as a Department Editor for Management Science. He has also served in editorial positions at more than a dozen other journals.