MMTC External Enablement Workshop 3

Call for Submissions and Participants

MMTC External Enablement (EE) Research Workshop 3:

Experimental EE Research – Papers, Design Suggestions, and Research Ideas

Jönköping, Sweden & Online, Dec. 9-10, 2024

The External Enablement Framework (EEF) offers novel approaches for studying how business-environmental changes create favorable conditions for entrepreneurial action, and how entrepreneurial agents interact with such changes to launch new ventures and gear them toward success. The EE website showcases the foundational EE papers, a broad set of papers applying these novel tools, and other resources for EE scholarship.

Following previous successful EE workshops, we now invite interested academics to our third EE Research Workshop—this time focusing on using experimental methods for advancing EE research. This theme includes laboratory, field, and natural experiments; conjoint and choice experiment studies; as well as qualitative techniques, verbal protocol analyses and/or interactive simulations as long as they include some experimental elements and manipulations. (Conversely, interview- or survey-based studies of how entrepreneurs might “experiment” their way forward would not be a good fit for this workshop.)

Prior research on “opportunity ideation / identification / evaluation” has frequently applied experimental approaches. We believe the EE framework’s conceptual toolbox lends itself to utilizing such approaches for reaching further and deeper insights. We also believe that experimental techniques can facilitate creative new approaches to many other important aspects of entrepreneurship and business development.

As there may currently be few on-going studies that combine EEF concepts with experimental methods, we invite submissions not only of full draft papers but also of research ideas and research design suggestions to be presented, discussed and enhanced at and through the Workshop. We thus invite submissions that:

• Address topics related to entrepreneurship and dynamic business development

• Use selected concepts from the EEF as vantage points and (aim to) pursue analysis around these concepts to some depth (as opposed to merely labeling an environmental change as ‘EE’)

• Apply experimental data collection methods as described above or aim to do so

• Report their study as a full draft paper (max 40 pages, 12 pt, double-spaced) or as research ideas or design suggestions developed across 5-8 pages, 12 pt, double-spaced)

• Seek to benefit from expert advice on applying the EEF and experimental methods as their research tools

Professors Per Davidsson and Denis Grégoire will lead the Workshop and provide feedback to accepted submissions based on their expertise in external enablement and experimental research.

The Workshop will run lunch to lunch (CET; GMT+1/UTC+1) on December 9-10, 2024. Participation will be possible on-site or online. We can offer free accommodation (but not travel) for a limited number of on-site participants.

A helpful video from Denis Grégoire’s pre-workshop online session offers advice on experimental research on entrepreneurship in general and external enablers in particular. The video is available HERE

Paper draft and ideas/suggestions submissions are due October 31, 2024. 

We aim to send out acceptance and subsidized accommodation decisions by November 11.

We look forward to seeing you at the MMTC External Enablement (EE) Research Workshop 3. Welcome!

The final program and the Zoom link can be accessed at the following link. Please note that the program’s time zone is Swedish (CET; UTC+01:00).