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Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division |
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This committee focuses on the issues of non-traditional academics (NTA) that are involved in entrepreneurship teaching and research. It is among the standing committees organized under the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.
We focus on the concerns of academics that have non-traditional career backgrounds — whether in the period prior to their academic career (i.e., extensive industry/entrepreneurship experience) or in their choices of their academic careers. While there are other possible definitions of a “non-traditional” academic, this definition fits most closely the interest we have attracted from members of the Academy.
One of our major concerns is making sure that the field of entrepreneurship successfully integrates new NTAs, particularly Ph.D. students trying to reconcile their own knowledge and experience with the socialization of a doctoral program and their own career aspirations.
We as with many of the division’s efforts, we see the committee’s efforts as being directly aligned to the division’s goal of “engaged scholarship” as defined by Andy van de Ven.
Our near-term goals are to create a community to allow NTAs to meet others in similar situations, and to find peer and mentor feedback for the unique issues they face in integration their academic and industry experience.
We
have created an NTA group
on LinkedIn. The goal of the group is to build community
by allowing NTAs to identify other members of the community, to enable discussion
of issues facing NTAs, and to generally facilliate networking and collaboration.
We encourage all entrepreneurship scholars who share our interests to join
the group.
At the annual Academy meetings, committee has sponsored two preconference workshops and one panel discussion:
The committee was chaired by Brian McKenzie of CSU East Bay from 2004-2007. Since 2007, the chair has been Joel West of San José State. As of October 2009, current committee members are:
Last updated October 3, 2009