2011 Agenda

Fox School of Business-Kauffman Foundation Workshop on Empirical Entrepreneurship

Preliminary Conference Program
Fox School of Business, Temple University
1801 Liacouras Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122

November 18, 2011- Day 1

9:00 AM-12:00 PM		KFS Paper Development Workshop
		Chair: Alicia Robb, University of California, Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation
		Access to Capital from Various Sources and New Venture Survival Shaoming Cheng, Florida International University New Firm Survival and Exit through M&A: A Duration Analysis Susan Coleman and Carmen Cotei, University of Hartford, and Joseph Farhat, Central Connecticut State University The Impact of Individual- and Institutional- Investor Heterogeneity on New Venture Growth Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Satish Nambisan, Brandon Ofem, University of Kentucky New Venture internationalization: the Determinants and Performance Guohua Jiang, Fox School of Business, Temple University
12:00-1:00 PM		Boxed Lunch and Conference Registration

1:30-2:00 PM		*Session 1* Discussant: Ram Mudambi, Temple University
		Regional Variance in Entrepreneurial Approaches to Venture Building, Robert Vesco and Brent Goldfarb, University of Maryland, and Ben Hallen, London Business School

		The influence of internal and external economies on firm location strategies Mercedes Delgado, Fox School of Business and Juan Alcacer, Harvard Business School
2:30-2:45 PM		Coffee Break


2:45-4:15 PM		*Session 2* Discussant: Gavin Cassar, Wharton
		Markets for Technology vs. Markets for Products Noni E. Symeonidou, Imperial College Business School
		Entrepreneurial Finance and Performance: A Transaction Cost Economics Approach Robert Seamans, Stern School of Business, NYU and Alicia Robb, University of California, Santa Cruz and Kauffman Foundation
4:15-4:30 PM		Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 PM		*Session 3* Discussant: TBD
		Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 and Entrepreneurial Activity Yong Paik, University of Southern California Public Policy and Business Creation in the United States Douglas Cumming, University of York, Schulich School of Business
6:00-7:00 PM		Reception
7:00-9:00 PM		Keynote Speech and Conference Dinner
		Scott Stern, MIT

November 19, 2011—Day 2

8:00-8:30 AM		Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:00 AM		*Session 4* Discussant: Robert Hamilton, III, Temple University
		Equity Financing and Investment Decisions in Startup Firms Dasol Kim, Weatherhead School of Management, Case-Western
		Firm Ownership, Agency Costs and Firm Performance William Bradford, University of Washington, Qianqian Du, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Tatyana Sokolyk, Brock University

10:00-10:15 AM		Coffee Break

10:15-11:45 AM		*Session 5* Discussant: Mazhar Islam, Drexel University
		Partners and Profits: A Hybrid, Longitudinal Study of Founding Partnerships’ Effects on New Firm Profitability William R. Forster, Lehigh University Quitters versus pursuers: education as the determinant of new venture survival Snehal Awate and Sheryl Winston Smith, Fox School of Business and Sonali K. Shah, University of Washington

11:45-12:30 PM		Lunch

12:30-2:00 PM		Session 6 Discussant: Sheryl Winston Smith, Temple University
		Who wants to be a founder, and who wants to join one? Entrepreneurial intentions of PhDs in science & engineering Mike Roach, University of North Carolina and Henry Sauermann, Georgia Tech
		New Dogs New Tricks: CEO Turnover, CEO-related Factors, and Innovation Performance Frederick Bereskin and Po-Hsuan Hsu, University of Delware

2:30 PM		Adjourn

The Workshop on Empirical Entrepreneurship is supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Fox School of Business, Temple University