R.E.Pr.I.S.E. - Research on Entrepreneurship Processes, Innovation, and Startup Enterprises *1 session*

Scientific research tends to become increasingly fragmented. Conferences, workshops, seminars, and journal special issues encourage research on selected areas of research, specific topics, and exclusive concepts that can stand out from the rest and be immediately recognizable.

What about research on wide areas of research, general topics, and common concepts?

Although they remain the foundations of research, they inevitably evolve. Therefore, they require updating, clarification, and reworking.

The 1^ R.E.Pr.I.S.E. conference embraces this perspective and looks for contributions that can update, clarify, and rework three core concepts:

Entrepreneurship Processes – Innovation – Startup Enterprises

Specifically, the conference calls for research engaging with these broad, foundational, and evolving constructs, recognizing how these core concepts require continuous scholarly refinement. In this regard, contributions should advance:

• Conceptual updating, to reflect emerging phenomena and shifting contextual conditions;
• Theoretical clarification and methodological refinement, to consolidate, integrate, and refine existing explanatory frameworks;
• Systematic reworking, considering ongoing economic, technological, institutional, and societal transformations.

In this spirit, the conference encourages scholars to critically reassess and further develop these domains in response to contemporary challenges, including digital transformation, sustainability transitions, evolving ecosystem configurations, and heightened global uncertainty.

The 1^ R.E.Pr.I.S.E. conference will kick off on November 16th at 09:30 a.m. with Prof. Eric Liguori.

Dr. Liguori is the Jim Moran Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Associate Dean of the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. He currently serves as Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Small Business Management and Immediate Past Chair of AACSB’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Affinity Group. His expertise is sought after by leading Fortune 100 companies and governments alike.

On the occasion of the 1^ R.E.Pr.I.S.E. conference, we have assembled a powerhouse lineup of scholars ready to tackle the biggest questions in entrepreneurship and innovation. The research papers they will present are:

Connecting the ‘dots’ of effectuation within the entrepreneurial process model: A design and systems thinking perspective

Tõnis Mets

Diversity capability and integrating AI agent coworkers: An absorptive capacity view

Mert Merde

Hybrid entrepreneurship in peripheral commons: The role of public-private interaction

Nicole Dujany, Mario Benassi

New venture gestation. Why the earliest, least visible formations in the entrepreneurship process matter for ideas, people, strategy, and futures

Hans Martin Lundberg

Relationship between social entrepreneurial self-efficacy and social entrepreneurship: The moderating role of perceived opportunities and government activism

Jose Oscar Sarmiento-Calle, Daniel Alonso-Martínez, Laura Cabeza-García

The entrepreneurial process in family businesses: A systematic literature review

Saby Giannina Romero Medina, Camila Wainer Bustamante

The synergy of entrepreneurial experience and subsidies in deep-tech scaling: A longitudinal study from Campania Region

Andrea Pone, Gerardo Luisi, Marco Ferretti, Andrea Caporuscio

The two faces of Janus: A dual pathway model of retrospective and prospective intuitive agency in serendipity

Andrew E. F. Fultz, Eugene Sadler-Smith, Christian Busch

Tools of dominion: Understanding a religious extremist narrative of entrepreneurship

Kristen Fultz, Andrew E. F. Fultz

Wellbeing, entrepreneurial alertness and opportunity recognition among university students

Mariacarmela Passarelli, Giuseppe Bongiorno, Marta Papaluca

The 1^ R.E.Pr.I.S.E. conference is divided into two sessions: the first on November 16th at 09:30 a.m. and the second on November 17th at 09:30 a.m.

Stay tuned for more updates, and get ready to meet them live at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, at the Rector's offices, Viale Ellittico, Caserta.