Just when summer and vacation are about to hit us we want to give you an update on what have happened in our research group lately.
Two of our PhD- students had seminars. Annie did her fifty-percent seminar where Alistair Anderson, who is the guest professor in the group, was opponent. The discussion was lively and very productive! Maria did her end-seminar, the last one (!) before the defense. Sarah Jack was the opponent and asked some hard questions that Maria navigated very professionally. We are all looking forward to the defense in September!
The entire group is going to the entrepreneurship conference RENT in the autumn and we just got word from the organizers that four out of five of our papers got accepted. This is wonderful news since more than 45 percent of all papers submitted to the conference were rejected.
Lastly we would like to acknowledge that maybe our research subject of entrepreneurship and context is becoming mainstream as Friederike Welter won this year's Greif Research Impact Award for her paper "Contextualizing Entrepreneurship - Conceptual Challenges and Ways Forward". The award is for the most cited paper in entrepreneurship in the preceding 5 years. So while we always saw us as a David working with a Goliath (except the violence of course…) we might need to rethink this and acknowledge that context is the new big thing in entrepreneurship research.