401: Exploring Theoretical Perspectives in Research on Community-Based Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (17212)

Saturday, August 10, 2024

14:00 – 17:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Hyatt: Michigan 3

Session Number: 401
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/RxZnEL

Organizer(s)

JB

Jennifer Brenton

U. of Michigan, United States

Moderator(s)

GL

G. T. Lumpkin

U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States

Facilitator(s)

LA

Laura Albareda

LUT Business School, Finland
SA

Shirley-Ann T. Augustin-Behravesh

Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU, United States
SR

Sara R. S. T. A. Elias

U. of Victoria, Canada
RF

Rebecca Franklin

New Mexico State U., United States

Organizer(s)

BB

Bruna Brito

Gustavson School of Business, U. of Victoria, Canada
PP

Pedram Pourasgari

-, Canada

Panelist(s)

NS

Natalie Slawinski

U. of Victoria, Canada
SS

Sara B. Soderstrom

U. of Michigan, United States
CH

Christina Julia Hertel

GSEM - U. of Geneva, Switzerland
SR

Suhaib Riaz

Telfer School of Management, U. of Ottawa, Canada
IQ

Israr Qureshi

Australian National U.

Moderator(s)

OB

Oana Branzei

Ivey Business School, CANADA

Grand challenges, while global in nature, manifest and are experienced in local communities. This reality has given rise to a stream of research on the role of local contexts and community-based enterprises (CBEs) in addressing grand challenges. While this research field is growing, there remains an opportunity to further explore how existing and emerging theoretical perspectives can advance our understanding of how CBEs work in and with communities to address challenges and build local resiliency. This PDW aims to expand on a PDW we organized last year titled “Community-Based Organizing and Entrepreneurship to Address Grand Challenges,” which took stock of extant research on CBEs as vehicles for tackling grand challenges. We seek to expand last year’s conversation by examining how established and emerging entrepreneurship and organization theories can be harnessed to push the field forward. To build on the success of last year’s session, we plan to incorporate two panel discussions of prominent scholars, one that examines existing theoretical lenses and the other emergent perspectives, to further our understanding of community-based enterprise and entrepreneurship. These panels will be followed by roundtable discussions around future areas of research within CBE scholarship. Through these conversations, this PDW seeks to advance organization theory and research in entrepreneurship and social issues in management.