Workshop: Mobilising Resources for Entrepreneurship Across Contexts
Workshop: Mobilising Resources for Entrepreneurship Across Contexts
This workshop brings together expertise in entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial microfoundations, and comparative entrepreneurship. It explores how entrepreneurs access financial and non-financial resources, how institutional environments shape entrepreneurial behaviour, and why entrepreneurial outcomes differ across regions, countries, and social groups. By combining macro-level institutional perspectives with micro-level insights into entrepreneurial decision-making and well-being, the event offers a distinctive platform for developing context-sensitive entrepreneurship research. The workshop will benefit ECRs by providing focused feedback from senior scholars, helping them strengthen theory, methods, and journal positioning.
Hosted by Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Group, Department of Management, University of Exeter.
Date: 02 September 2026
Location: University of Exeter Business School (Streatham campus)
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Keynote Speakers:
Tomasz is a Professor at Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; an honorary senior research fellow at University College London, a fellow of the Regional Studies Association, and a member of the UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor team. He also serves as editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Silvia is an Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship and innovation in the School of Management, University of St. Gallen. Her research examines the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance, focusing on the role of affective, cognitive, and nonconscious processes in human behaviour across entrepreneurial contexts, using psychophysiological methods to capture their real-time manifestations. She also serves as an editor at the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.
Panel Speakers:
Tom is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at Ghent University and a Distinguished Research Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter. His research explores how entrepreneurs mobilise and deploy resources, especially financial resources, and how these resources affect venture development. He serves as an editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Markus is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Exeter as well as an Assistant Professor for Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany. Markus conducts research in the areas of strategy, corporate governance and entrepreneurship. For example, he is interested in the roles and contributions of CEOs and boards of directors in established and entrepreneurial firms, and in how leadership and ownership arrangements affect performance; recently, he also published at the intersection of Biology and Entrepreneurship.
Bach is a Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Exeter. He studies how entrepreneurs and small firms navigate and adapt to changing institutional, technological, and societal environments. His work bridges institutional economics and entrepreneurial cognition, offering insights into how entrepreneurs make decisions, cope with challenges, enhance well-being, and pursue growth in both developed and emerging economies.