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2016 Keynotes

The 2016 ACERE Conference welcomed once again, an exceptional group of experts in the area of entrepreneurship research.

Per Davidsson
Professor in Entrepreneurship and Director for the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

5. Per Davidsson
Professor Davidsson is a Field Editor of Journal of Business Venturing and former associate editor of Small Business Economics and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. Per has additional affiliations with the Jönköping International Business School, Sweden and University of Louisville. In 2011/12 he served as Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. He has led and/or participated in multiple international-collaborative research projects addressing a broad array of entrepreneurship issues on the individual, team, organisational, regional and national levels. Professor Davidsson’s primary areas of expertise being new venture creation, small firm growth and research methods he has authored more than 100 published works on entrepreneurship topics including some of the best cited works in the leading journals in this field.

Evan Douglas
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of Marketing at Griffith Business School, Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

Professor Evan Douglas, new Head of School of Marketing, Griffith Business School
Professor Douglas has taught entrepreneurship, new venture strategy, new venture funding and business planning to MBA students in Australia, Canada, USA, England, China, India, and Thailand. Evan’s published research includes papers on the antecedents of the formation of entrepreneurial intentions, new venture risk analysis, and a book on new venture planning.

Saras D. Sarasvathy
Isidore Horween Research, Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

6. Saras D. Sarasvathy
Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics area and teaches courses in entrepreneurship and ethics in Darden’s MBA program. In addition, Saras teaches in doctoral programs not only at Darden, but also in Denmark, India, Croatia and South Africa. In 2007, she was named one of the top 18 entrepreneurship professors by Fortune Small Business magazine. A leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship, Professor Sarasvathy serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing and the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and is advisor to entrepreneurship education programs in Europe and Asia. Her scholarly work has won several awards, including the 2001 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management and the 2009 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Award from the American Marketing Association. Saras’ book Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise (book overview) was nominated for the 2009 Terry Book Award by the Academy of Management.

Bill Schulze
Associate Director, The Center for Medical Innovation, School Of Medicine-Operations, University of Utah. David Eccles Professor, Strategy Department, David Eccles School of Business.

 1. Bill Schulze
Dr Schulze is a David Eccles Professor and Chair of the Management Department at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. Bill received a PhD from the University of Colorado in 1994. Prior to joining the faculty at Utah he was an associate professor of entrepreneurship and the HR Horvitz Chair of Family Business at Case Western Reserve University, and an assistant professor of management at the University of Connecticut. Dr Schulze has published in a variety of journals, including The Harvard Business Review, Strategic Management Journal, The Academy of Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Long Range Planning, Managerial and Decision Economics, and The Journal of Business Venturing. In addition, Bill’s work has appeared in several books and the proceedings of numerous conferences, including the Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management in 1992, 1999 and 2000. He serves on the editorial review board for The Strategic Management Journal, The Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Family Business Review. Dr Schulze’s research interests focus on the governance of private and closely held firms, the nature of risk, and a variety of topics related to new venture formation and growth.

Dean Shepherd
Professor Dean Shepherd, David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA.

3. Dean Shephard
Professor Dean Shepherd received his doctorate and MBA from Bond University (Australia) and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Dean’s research on strategic entrepreneurship includes the decision making of entrepreneurs, new venture strategy, learning from failure, and pursuit of opportunity. Focusing on these four streams, he has published, or has accepted for publication, over 120 papers primarily in the top general management journals (Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Management Science, Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal), top general operations journals (European Journal of Operational Research) and the top entrepreneurship journals (Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice). Professor Shepherd is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing (the top international journal on innovation/entrepreneurship) and on the review board for numerous top management and entrepreneurship journals.

Charlene Zietsma
Director of Entrepreneurial Studies, Associate Professor and Ann Brown Chair of Organization Studies at Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada.

2. Charlene Zietsma
Associate Professor Zietsma’s research focuses on contexts involving significant, large-scale change. In entrepreneurship, Charlene focuses on managing rapid growth, sustainable entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial cognition/emotion. She also studies institutional work, institutional change processes, and social emotions usually in the context of social and ecological issues and social movements. Associate Professor Zietsma has published articles in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Business Venturing and others. Charlene is a Senior Editor for Organization Studies, and serves on the editorial board for several other journals.

 

ACERE 2023

Key Dates

Activities:

Doctoral Consortium: 6 February 2023

Paper Development Workshops: 7 February 2023

Educators Forum: 7 February 2023

Industry Forum: 10 February 2023

Main Conference: 8-10 February 2023

Social Events:

Welcome Reception: 7 February 2023

Social Event: 8 February 2023

Awards Night: 9 February 2023

Submission and Deadlines:

Full paper submission deadline for the conference: 30 November 2022

Educators Forum submission deadline: 7 December 2022

Application for the Doctoral Consortium: 15 December 2022

Registration early bird prices: 15 December 2022

PDWs submission deadline: 3 January 2023

Testimonials

As a first-time participant and a new doctoral student just 6 months in, the conference has been extremely useful for me in terms of my own personal learning and in meeting new, liked-minded individuals. I would definitely encourage more of my friends to apply the conference in the future.

Thomas Ding

As a first-time participant and a new doctoral student just 6 months in, the conference has been extremely useful for me in terms of my own personal learning and in meeting new, liked-minded individuals. I would definitely encourage more of my friends to apply the conference in the future.

The ACERE conference was extremely well organized. Communication, planning and execution; it all works perfectly. High academic standard, very skilled participants, nice presentations, interesting topics and discussions, as well as relevant key-notes and a nice atmosphere. A truly great conference.

Martin Senderovitz

A fantastic conference. Quality of papers and quality of feedback provided is of a high standard. The key notes were superb. The size of the conference supports a real community feeling amongst the participants.

Jillian Gordon

I have been in touch with ACERE for more than ten years. This is a great venue for young scholars to learn from each other and a great opportunity to closely interact with top scholars in the field of entrepreneurship research. I deeply appreciate the efforts of the organizing team in initiating a great learning environment among participants. Doctoral consortium, pitching, and paper development session are the examples of those initiatives.

Thanaphol Virasa

The 2018 ACERE conference was my first visit and I came for the conference from Pakistan. I found the conference very productive and interactive. It gives an excellent platform to new researchers to discuss their research with outstanding academic scholars

Dr. Noor Muhammad

I would like to congratulate you for the wonderful ACERE Conference you organised in Brisbane this year – 2018. I was happy to participate in such great event! – Thank you

Christian Felzensztein
PhD

‘I just wanted to let you know that ACERE was the best conference I’ve ever attended. Fantastic people, fantastic food, fantastic location(s), fantastic events, and on and on. This was my first time to Australia and I’m completely smitten. In sum, thanks for an amazing experience and I hope to be a life-long attendee moving forward!’

David Gras
University of Tennessee

Great conference and wonderful event!

Patricia McDougall-Covin
Indiana University

Thank you so much for this very well organized and high quality conference.

Charlott Menke
Otto-von-Guerick Universitat

I really enjoyed DC and main conference. It was really a wonderful experience for me.

Linh T. Nguyen
University of NSW

I wanted to thank you and congratulate you on the format and quality of the conference. I had the chance for one my papers to be included in the PDS session, and I believe it has truly been helpful. The initial as well as PDS reviews were of high quality, and the exchanges during the session itself, outstanding. I hope you will re-conduct this format in the future!

Virginie Vial
Kedge Business School

Thank you for setting such a supportive and developmental tone both for the doctoral consortium and for the whole ACERE conference. I haven’t been to too many conferences, but I’ve been to enough to know that ACERE offers a unique and golden opportunity for doctoral candidates and early career researchers to learn from some of the best in the field about how to improve and position our research.

Thanks again for providing our research community with such an inviting and generous conference.

Lene Foss
Professor
The Arctic University of Norway

As a practitioner, I thorougly enjoyed the 2014 ACERE conference in Sydney.  Unlike the other BIG entrepreneurship conferences that I have attended, ACERE covers many of the important issues and topics in entrepreneurship research and also provides a rich practitioner and policy perspective. More importantly the ACERE conference team were entrepreneurial in their thinking- they knew the needs of their customers, the participants, quite intimately and provided an awesome customer service. The conference was the “right size” which facilitates excellent networking opportunities not only for researchers, but also for students, practitioners and policy makers. I plan to be back!

Dr. Suresh Kumar
Founder and CEO
NexAge Technologies USA Inc/Green Earth LLC and Game Changers LLC

I gained a great deal from this session, particularly the need to properly frame the paper (and any paper), and ways to link my research to the theory. In addition, the discussion helped me to work out a “template” that I can apply to a number of research ideas that I have vaguely been thinking about. This was a really valuable session for me, and it helped me to finish the conference on a very high note.

Peter Balan
University, South Australia

I really enjoyed the conference – it is great value, something that you cannot say of many conferences.

Martie-Louise Verreynne
University, Queensland

As a first year PhD, I had no idea how invaluable it would be to learn from others, gain insight into the research process, gain valuable feedback, and network in a very supportive environment. I’m so glad that I came and hope to see you next year. Well done on hosting a great event.

Erin Castellas
Monash University

Thank you for hosting a very successful and enjoyable conference. I am looking forward to build my career and network by taking part in the future activities of ACE.

Saskia de Klerk
University, New South Wales

Thanks for organising the ACERE conference. It was a great success. On the whole there was a lot of value in meeting and discussing projects etc.

Jeremy Zwiegelaar
Massey University

“It was a fantastic conference!”

Lene Foss
Professor
Tromsø University Business School

I’d just like to thank you again for the great conference – We learnt so much from all the different sessions, the experts and it was great to be able to get personal feedback.

Retha Scheepers
University, the Sunshine Coast

Thanks for such a great conference!

Morgan P. Miles
Professor
University

Thank you for providing doctoral students like me a wonderful opportunity to showcase their work and ideas as well as get invaluable insights into academia and research through the sessions and interactions. I found the Doctoral Consortium and the PDW especially helpful. The first one provided me good feedback on my work and the PDW really helped me in understanding how a paper had to be structured and how Editors looked at one.

Vidhula Venugopal
Doctoral Candidate
Indian Institute

It was amazing how much mentorship was embedded into the consortium and conference. I truly do believe that I gained tremendous value from attending the conference. Thank you all so much for sharing.

Sharon Simmons
PhD Candidate
Syracuse University USA

The ACERE/Diana conference was fabulous!

Roxanne Zolin
Associate Professor
QUT Business School

I particularly enjoyed the PhD Consortium

PhD Candidate

This was my first time at the Acere conference, and I was impressed. A small group of highly engaged scholars. Well organized, multi-track meetings that ran on schedule. Fun social evenings. Topped off by a highly valued Paper Development Workshop that provided wonderful feedback. Well worth the long trip to Western Australia!

Brian King
PhD, Professor - HEC Montréal

Thank you once again for the superb organization of the conference. It was a very enriching and enjoyable experience.

Tatiana S. Manolova
Associate Professor
Bentley University

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