AoM Symposium on External Enablement

Featuring a stellar set of presenters and discussants, this AoM Symposium aims to showcase and discuss theory about how macroenvironmental changes create positive potentials that organizational agents can leverage—or fail to leverage. Our vantage point is that such theory is important and timely yet insufficiently represented in our current library of management theories. To underscore our point of a current theoretical void, we focus in particular on how societal crises – that is, events that are by definition negative for the majority – create positive potentials for an important minority of business activities.

The event is on-site only (no online participation)

Organizer: William Gartner, Babson College

Discussants: 

David Audretsch, Indiana University

Moren Levesque, York University

Saras Sarasvathy, University of Virginia

Mark Suchman, Brown University

Presentations:

Theorizing Potentials from Macroenvironmental Change Frederik Von Briel; U. of Queensland Per Davidsson; Jönköping International Business School Jan Recker; U. of Hamburg

A Cloud’s Silver Lining? The Impact of COVID-19 Policy Interventions on New and Maturing Technology David Lucas; Syracuse U. Whitman School of Management Cristiano Bellavitis; Syracuse U. Whitman School of Management Uisung David Park; Syracuse U.

External Enablers and the Shaping of Established Ventures: Emergence, Novelty, and Persistence of Joaquin Cestino; Jonkoping International Business School Lucia Naldi; Jonkoping International Business School Mart Ots; Jonkoping International Business School

Expanding Enabler-Agent Interplay: A Missed External Enablement Perspective Matthew Wood; U. of Oklahoma David W. Williams; U. of Tennessee Will Drover; Texas Christian U. Session 945; Submission ID: 11526