A message from the EREI Initiative & Exemplars Conference Co-Chairs:
The vision of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management is to grow entrepreneurship scholars. The Division, therefore, seeks to promote excellence in entrepreneurship research across multiple scholarly disciplines. To motivate such scholarly growth both increased visibility and increased availability of help become the focus. Accordingly, in this effort to both honor entrepreneurship research excellence and serve as a catalyst to increase the volume and quality of manuscript flow of top-tier entrepreneurship research, the Division has launched "The Entrepreneurship Research Excellence Initiative (EREI)." EREI is currently comprised of The IDEA Awards and the Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference.
The Inaugural Entrepreneurship Research Exemplars Conference was a "new-format" invited best practices conference at the University of Connecticut for advancing top-tier research in entrepreneurship. The inaugural conference featured two types of sessions: Journal Editors and Authors Panels, and Keynote Addresses. It was the intent that both the Editors/Authors Panels and Keynote Addresses will serve as a new set of transparent milestones for encouraging and accelerating the successful publishing of top-tier Entrepreneurship research from multi-disciplinary, highly committed scholars. All sessions were web-streamed and recorded for future downloading, and have been made available to all entrepreneurship researchers on both the AoM's Entrepreneurship Division and University of Connecticut's CCEI websites.
2009 - Conference Session Videos
The 2010 Exemplars Conference was titled "Themes in Entrepreneurship Research Excellence." Under the "themes" umbrella, conference activities were focused around four centers of attention: (1) Enduring Themes, (2) Enabling Themes, (3) Engaging Themes, and (4) Emerging Themes. Each of the four themes was explored through keynote addresses from top scholars in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as lively panel discussions, where representative field leaders and journal editors were be able to talk, "Charlie Rose" style, about the ideas and concepts pertinent to each of the four themes. Theme topics and discussions included:
2010 - Conference Session Videos
The accompanying book that combines the narratives for the 2009 and 2010 conferences can be found at the Edward Elgar Publishing site, and is titled In Search of Research Excellence: Exemplars in Entrepreneurship.