Accelerator Papers in AOM 2018
When I started my research in 2015 on accelerators, there were very few scholars [image error]working on it and hardly a handful of papers published on the phenomenon. In the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (BCERC) 2017 there were probably three papers on the topic. My BCERC 2017 presentation was received well and provided good feedback. My conference paper was developed and eventually published in the Journal of Business Venturing — you can read it here: Accelerating strategic fit or venture emergence: Different paths adopted by corporate accelerators
Hence I was quite excited when I saw a tweet from Susan Cohen (an early scholar on the topic) that there were 10 papers in this year’s Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM). Quite an increase in a short span of two years! In fact I was happy to see that there were 9 papers and one symposium too. The symposium will have 5 additional papers — thereby taking the total count of presentations on accelerators to 14. Here is the list of papers with links to them.
Link to Papers (nine in all)
Variance Decomposing of Accelerator and Cohort Effects Among London Startups — https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.80
Pace Yourself?: A Model of Varied Entrainment Responses in a Seed Accelerator — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.11158abstract
How inter-organizational relationships shape innovation in business accelerators — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.11488abstract
Entrepreneurial Acceleration: Exploring Accelerator Programs — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12509abstract
Enhancing Human Capital with Social Capital via Entrepreneurial Learning in a Start-up Accelerator — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.12722abstract
High Growth, Innovation, and Business Accelerators:Differences Between Women- and Men-led Ventures — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.13720abstract
A Conceptual Examination Of Corporate Accelerators Versus Traditional Corporate Venturing Programs — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14591abstract
The ‘Give and take’ of Mentorship Processes within Accelerators — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.15669abstract
Social Ventures, Impact Accelerators And Endorsement Signals: The Moderating Effect of Gender — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.16786abstract
Link to Symposium (with five presentations)
Business Accelerators and the Development of Early-Stage Ventures — https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.17606symposium
I am not attending the AOM 2018. But I hope to hear and learn from friends who attend the AOM. Exciting times for people researching entrepreneurship support and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
