1800: A New Take on Entrepreneurial Intent (14193)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

08:00 – 09:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: Toronto

Session Number: 1800
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Theme
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/ZKynz9

Organizer(s)

JH

Jay Habegger

U. of Maryland R.H. Smith School of Business, United States
GS

Gordon Scott

Washington U. in St. Louis, Olin Business School, United States

Discussant(s)

JB

Jay B. Barney

U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business, United States

Panelist(s)

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Sharon Alvarez

U. of Pittsburgh, United States
PK

Peter G. Klein

Baylor U., United States
TZ

Todd Zenger

U. of Utah, David Eccles School of Business, United States
RA

Rajshree Agarwal

U. of Maryland, United States

This symposium provokes discussion among leading management scholars regarding a New Take on Entrepreneurial Intent (EI). Previous consideration of EI has focused on traits, preferences, and cognition that influence selection into entrepreneurship. The new conceptualization of EI focuses on how intent affects tangible entrepreneurial decision-making downstream of venture creation. How does EI provide a venture with an overarching purpose that directs resource and capability acquisition, and how does EI provide a framework for evaluating venture success? Consistent with the themes of AoM 2024, scholars in the symposium will discuss how EI might be the glue focusing the diversity of organizations on a purpose, and how EI helps balance the interests of competing stakeholders, including facilitating the matching of stakeholders with a venture in the first place.