“Celebrating 10 years of
Effectuation Conferences”
(just before the XXXIII. RENT Conference in Berlin)
ESCP Europe, Heubnerweg 8-10, 14059 Berlin
Sunday, November 24th – Tuesday 26th
About the conference
It will have been 10 years since the first Effectuation Conference was held in a decommissioned church at the Vlerick Business School in the tiny city of Ghent, Belgium. To celebrate, the 2019 Effectuation Conference will be coming back to Europe.
The Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship of ESCP Europe will be hosting the 2019 Effectuation Conference in Berlin in ESCP Europe's 200th anniversary year as a pre-conference to the XXXIII. RENT Conference. The Effectuation Conference format will offer both plenary sessions as well as small group research and practice “pods”.
René Mauer
Professor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship
ESCP Europe Berlin
Yi Jiang
Assistant Professor for Entrepreneurship
Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship
ESCP Europe Paris
Call for papers
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We invite participants with a research interest, a teaching interest and/or an interest in practical application to present their work. For those with a primary interest in research, we require participants to present a working paper. This work will be discussed in small groups in dedicated workshop sessions. For those with a primary interest in teaching and/or practice, we require participants to present a description or design of a practice they have used or are considering. We plan to have interactive sessions in which the various practices are shared between participants.
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Paper submission
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1. Research orientation: Please submit an academic paper, or extended abstract of at least seven pages, but maximum 30 pages. Papers can be fully developed, but we particularly encourage the submission of working papers that can benefit from our interactive workshop format.
2. Teaching and practice orientation: Please submit at least a three-page description or design of a practice you have used or are planning to use. That could be a teaching practice, a tool, an intervention design or a (consulting) case. Please describe your experiences and list potential questions that you may have for discussing.
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Please Note: : Please indicate the track you are submitting to in the subject line ("Submission to Effectuation Conference Research Track" OR "Submission to Effectuation Conference Teaching/Practice Track"). Both types of papers should be sent to the following e-mail address:
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May 15, 2019
(12pm CET)
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Speakers
Shabnam Mousavi
Shabnam Mousavi was once an electrical engineer, then moved on to obtain a PhD in Economics and one in Statistics from Virginia Tech. She is an interdisciplinary scientist exploring the many aspects of human choice behavior. She has held university faculty positions in finance at the Johns Hopkins and Georgia State and in statistics at Penn State. She has been a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin since 2007, as well as a network member of the University of Chicago Wisdom Project since 2008 (grant recipient). She is president of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (2018-20).
Saras Sarasvathy
Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is a member of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Ethics area. In addition to MBA and doctoral courses in entrepreneurship at Darden, she teaches in doctoral programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Her scholarly work has won several awards, including the 2009 and 2015 Gerald E. Hills Best Paper Awards from the American Marketing Association and the Foundational Paper Award from the Academy of Management in 2017. Her book Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise was nominated for the 2009 Terry Book Award by the Academy of Management.
Stuart Read
Professor Read has nearly twenty years of industry experience, having participated in the creation of six high technology start-up firms. Four of those firms were acquired by industry leaders including Sun Microsystems and Lotus Development Corporation. Two are publicly traded. He also spent six years with enterprise database software provider, Oracle Corporation. Professor Read's research is focused on effectuation. As uncertainty is pervasive across all aspects of firms, markets and organizations, his work on effectuation applies to, and has been published in a variety of disciplinary areas.
Provisional programme (subject to change)
Sunday, Nov 24th
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Monday, Nov 25th
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Tuesday, Nov 26th
05:00 pm Welcome and participant means inventory
07:00 pm Art and Food experience
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08:30 am Welcome!
09:00 am Debrief and state of effectuation
10:00 am Keynote by Shabnam Mousavi
11:00 am Break
11:30 am Pods (research OR teaching/practice)
01:00 pm Lunch
02:00 pm Pods (research OR teaching/practice)
03:30 pm Break
04:00 pm Set-up for and transfer to "Effectual Dinner"
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09:00 am Effectuation Fish Bowl
10:00 am Pods (research OR teaching/practice)
12:00 pm Lunch
01:00 pm Co-creating around effectuation
03:00 pm Harvesting and closing
04:00 pm Conference closes
Conference logistics
Due to sponsoring of the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship we are happy to offer conference participation at a reduced rate of
100 Euro.
The fee includes full participation in all conference activities and all conference meals. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. The information here is to assist you with logistics and bookings.
Transportation and hotel
The ESCP Europe Business School is located in the district of Charlottenburg. The Schlosspark Hotel is directly next to the school. Other options for accomodation are available in Charlottenburg and the City West.
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The school is close to S-Bahn station "Westend". You can arrive there easily by using public transportation. See the details below how to arrive from the two main airports, and from the main rail station.
How to arrive at ESCP Europe, Heubnerweg 8-10, 14059 Berlin
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From Airport Berlin Tegel (TXL)
Take the bus X9 (direction Zoologischer Garten) to Jungfernheide.
From Jungfernheide take S41 to Westend
Walk towards Spandauer Damm
Turn right towards Spanduer Damm in the direction of Schloss Charlottenburg
Then turn left into SOphie-Charlotten-Strasse
And then right into Mollwitzstrasse
And lastly left into Heubnerweg (Destination will be on the right side)
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From Airport Berlin Schönefeld (SXF)
Take RB14 (direction Nauen, Bahnhof) to Jungfernheide.
From Jungfernheide take S41 to Westend
Walk towards Spandauer Damm
Turn right towards Spanduer Damm in the direction of Schloss Charlottenburg
Then turn left into SOphie-Charlotten-Strasse
And then right into Mollwitzstrasse
And lastly left into Heubnerweg (Destination will be on the right side)
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From Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main Station)
Take S-Bahn number S5, S7, S75 or S3 to Zoologischer Garten.
Change to U-Bahn S41 to Westend
Walk towards Spandauer Damm
Turn right towards Spanduer Damm in the direction of Schloss Charlottenburg
Then turn left into SOphie-Charlotten-Strasse
And then right into Mollwitzstrasse
And lastly left into Heubnerweg (Destination will be on the right side)
Deadlines
Paper submission: May 15, 2019
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Author notification: July 1, 2019
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Registration opens: July 1, 2019
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Registration closes: September 30, 2019