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2016 Academy of Management meeting, Anaheim, California, United States

Professional Development Workshop

Ethics as a Source of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Saturday, Aug 6 2016 8:00AM - 9:30AM at Anaheim Marriott in La Jolla

Sponsor(s): (SIM, ENT)

To what extent does using an ethical perspective trigger innovation? To what extent do ethics help entrepreneurs recognize or create different opportunities? To what extent do ethics hinder competiveness or facilitate strategic advantages? To what extent do institutional conditions influence the way entrepreneurs view ethics as an inspiration for innovation and entrepreneurship internationally? For instance, some organizations have realized success by partnering with non-profits to develop and make available technology-based electronic payment and cash transfer systems to the poorest citizens of developing communities, which relates to the question of how ethical concerns such as poverty reduction and community development contribute as important drivers of innovation. The importance of ethics in management and entrepreneurship has become increasingly evident and in recent years scholars have addressed ethics from various perspectives in management journals. The subject of ethics has a unique potential for advancing knowledge across multiple fields by addressing themes of broad interest to scholars in a variety of specialty areas. Consequently, ethics research has a high potential for generating knowledge useful to scholars of different fields. This workshop seeks to discuss new opportunities for theory development addressing these types of questions in the literature on management, innovation, and entrepreneurship. By bringing in a collaboration of scholars from across different divisions and theoretical domains, we provide an innovative forum for examining these issues from an interdisciplinary standpoint. The workshop will serve to both introduce scholars having mutual interest to overlapping areas of concerns, as well as to promote scholarly development and exchanges yielding future panels, papers, special issues, and collaborative scholarship. "Take aways" will include the specific cross-fertilization of related but up until now separate domains of knowledge (e.g., innovation/ingenuity and entrepreneurship; sustainability and management ethics).

Organizer, Panelist: Ana Cristina O Siqueira; Duquesne U.;

Organizer, Panelist: Benson Honig; McMaster U.;

Panelist: Alan D. Meyer; U. of Oregon;

Panelist: Jill Kickul; New York U.;

Panelist: Laura J. Spence; Royal Holloway/ U. of London;

Panelist: William Meek; U. of Dayton;

Panelist: Peter T. Gianiodis; Clemson U.;

Panelist: G. Tyge Payne; Texas Tech U.;

Ana Cristina O. Siqueira, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Management

Duquesne University

Palumbo Donahue School of Business

600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15282

Phone: (412) 396-4314

Email: siqueiraa@duq.edu

http://www.duq.edu/business/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/siqueira-phd-ana.html