Stories of the Possible + Entrepreneurial Leadership

Seminar with professor William B. Gartner

Bill Gartner is a central scholar in the development of entrepreneurship research during the last 25 years. He has published numerous articles that have directed the debate and provided entrepreneurial interventions into the gradual maturing of this discipline. Daniel Hjorth and Bill Gartner have collaborated on several previous projects, including a special issue in the Journal of Business Venturing (2007) and the books: Narrative and Discursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship (2006), and The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (2009). Gartner recently launched the on-line publication ENTER publishing entrepreneurial narratives.

They are now working on the theme of ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership’, but still both interested in the question of how to tell stories of entrepreneurship. The seminar will be focusing on those topics.

William B. Gartner is the Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University. Before coming to Clemson University he taught at: the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, San Francisco State University and the University of Southern California. He is one of the co-founders of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium, which initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED). He is the lead editor of The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, which provides an overview of the PSED research project. He is the 2005 winner of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum International Award for outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship and small business research. His research has also won awards from the Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. His research has been funded by the Small Business Administration, Kauffman Foundation, Coleman Foundation, Hollingsworth Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Small Business Foundation of America, the Corporate Design Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

The seminar is organized by the Management Group, Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.

Everybody is welcome to participate. No registration needed.