Research Events
Research Seminars
2024
Joint Distinguished Speakers Series: In collaboration with the Einwechter Centre for Supply Chain Management at ODS, we are excited to present a distinguished speaker series featuring leading supply chain, technology and innovation experts. George Day, Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor of Marketing at Wharton and founding director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, will be of the speakers in this series. He is scheduled to visit us on December 13, 2024. More information will be provided closer to the event day.
Innovation & Insight Luncheon: We are excited to organize a dynamic luncheon event, potentially in partnership with Velocity of Waterloo, that will provide a unique platform for showcasing cutting-edge ideas and forward-thinking topics of interest to academia and industry. With its engaging discussions at the intersection of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship, this event will foster greater collaboration between academia and industry.
June 2023
Christian Schwens
Learning to be Well: Does Hybrid Entrepreneurship Foster Entrepreneurs’ Psychological Wellbeing?
May 2023
Catherine Tucker
Data Deserts: Algorithmic Exclusion, Privacy and Inequity
Nicola Breugst
How social media influencers turn their lives into entrepreneurial opportunities: Creating and managing boundarylessness
April 2023
Christian Schwens
Rapid Research
November 2022
Moren Levesque
It’s Time To Break Up: Dynamics Surrounding Young-Established Firm Alliance Duration
October 2022
Moren Levesque
Rapid Research Luncheon
David Audretsch
Democracy and Entrepreneurship
June 2022
Holger Patzelt
Should We Take Route A or Route B? How Founding Teams Navigate Contradictory Feedback
May 2022
Holger Patzelt
Rapid Research
April 2022
Scaling Modes: Organizational Dynamics During Rapid Organic Growth
January 2022
Maria Roche
(Co-)Working in close proximity: Knowledge spillovers and social interactions
November 2021
John van Reenen
Rapid Research
September 2021
Nir Vulkan
The impact of the regulatory sandbox on the fintech industry
May 2021
Kristof CoussementRapid Research
March 2021
Daniel F. SpulburThe case for patents
November 2020
Charlene Zietsma
Rapid Research
October 2020
Andrew Karolyi
Rapid Research
October 2019
Nir Vulkan
Equity crowdfunding – a good idea?
Mark Freel
The consequences of growth: case study and econometric evidence
September 2019
Christian Schwens
Co-opetition, innovation performance, and the moderating role of inter-partner symmetry
July 2019
Holger Patzelt
I am the opportunity. How social media influences cope with liminality between private and public selves over time
June 2019
Caroline Wiertz
A theory of object change
May 2019
Victor Seidel
Rumor communities, social media, and forthcoming innovations
April 2019
Moren Lévesque
Discovery vs. repositioning: An empirical study of time allocation contingencies in drug development
March 2019
Johan Wiklund
When ADHD helps and harms entrepreneurship: An epidemiological approach
November 2018
Mark Freel
The consequences of growth
September 2018
Shaker Zahra
Industry knowledge, prior industry experience and new venture survival
Pitosh Heyden and Sebastian Fourné
Too busy to balance? A longitudinal analysis of busy directors and firm ambidextrous orientation
May 2018
Moren Lévesque
Is there a 'double-edged sword' of knowledge flows in tech transfer? What's the impact on innovation performance?
April 2018
Holger Patzelt
How do entrepreneurial teams recover from co-founder exits?
December 2017
Tomas Hult
Customer satisfaction and business performance
October 2017
Constantin Blome
An editor's reflections on publishing and developing an international career
Nir Vulkan
The trade-off between ownership and investment: Evidence from equity crowdfunding campaigns
September 2017
Kristof Coussement
Finding the golden nuggets in textual customer information through text mining
Visiting Scholars
2024
TBD
April 2023 - June 2023
Dr. Christian Schwens - University of Cologne
Learning to be Well: Does Hybrid Entrepreneurship Foster Entrepreneurs' Psychological Wellbeing?
May 2023
Nicola Breugst - Technical University of Munich
How social media influencers turn their lives into entrepreneurial opportunities: Creating and managing boundarylessness
October 2022
Moren Lévesque - Schulich School of Business, York University
It's time to break up: Dynamics surrounding young-established firm alliance duration
June 2022
Holger Patzelt - School of Management, Technical University of Munich
Should We Take Route A or Route B? How Founding Teams Navigate Contradictory Feedback
April 2022
Charlene Zietsma - Smeal College of Business, Penn State University
Scaling modes: Organizational dynamics during rapid organic growth
Special Events
2023 Women, Networks and Entrepreneurship
The Lazaridis Institute and the Women Entrepreneurship Centre hosted the 'Women, Networks and Entrepreneurship' online panel discussion event. The event covered topics such as the role women-only networks play in the success of entrepreneurs, best practices for women founders, how to network effectively, and more!
Moderated by Emily Mills, (Founder of How She Hustles) our panelists were:- Meghan Chayka (Fouder and CEO of Stathletes)
- Nancy Gardiner (President of FedDev Southern Ontario)
- Kathryn Minshew (Founder and CEO of The Muse)
- Meredith Woodwark (Assistant Professor at Laurier)
2019 Meet the Editors
The Lazaridis Institute hosted a one-day workshop on "publishing for the premiere entrepreneurship and management journals."
Hosted by Nicole Coviello, our workshop leaders were:
- Jeff McMullen (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Business Venturing)
- Johan Wiklund (Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
Jeff and Johan lead the two top entrepreneurship journals in the world. They also have significant experience publishing in (e.g.) AMJ, AMR, AMP, JoM, SMJ.
2018 Entrepreneurship Research Day
The 2018 Entrepreneurship Research Day included a panel of world-leading scholars sharing their unique perspectives on the issues and trends emerging in entrepreneurship research. We also ran an interactive Paper Development Workshop facilitated by the three panelists and three visiting journal editors, and we celebrated graduate student research with a competitive poster session judged by our expert panelists.
Panelists:
- Marc Gruber, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Holger Patzelt, Technical University of Munich
- Dean Shepherd, University of Notre Dame
- Moren Lévesque (Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice)
- Simon Parker (Journal of Business Venturing)
- Geoff Kistruck (Journal of Business Venturing)
Graduate Student Poster Winners:
- 1st place: Nuruddin Ahmed, Ivey Business School
- 2nd place: Mihwa Seong and Nuruddin Ahmed (both of Ivey Business School)
- 3rd place: Maximilian Stallkamp, Ivey Business School
Looking Ahead
Panelist Dean Shepherd discusses the future of research on entrepreneurship.