webinar series
2021 

Webinar 1 – September 16, 2021

MENAGEN MENTORING MPP Launch

 Presented By

Professor Haya Al-Dajani & Professor Susan Marlow & Dr Lorna Treanor

The workshop explored the process of preparing, structuring, and revising academic papers. The facilitators drew on their editorial expertise and experience in publishing in top-rated journals. A range of issues was covered, including which journal to target, how to structure arguments, demonstrating a contribution, writing analytically, presenting empirical material, key editing aspects, and responding to reviewers. Participants brought their questions about their publication queries and experiences. The session was an interactive, informal session that directly responded to the participants’ priorities.

Participants based at a university in the Arab world who attended the publication workshop were eligible to apply for mentoring from our gender and entrepreneurship experts, who have published extensively in international and world-leading journals.

Professor Susan Marlow, Field Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and Editor of the International Small Business Journal, the UK’s premier entrepreneurship research journal.

Professor Haya Al-Dajani, who sits on the Editorial Boards of the International Small Business Journal, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Journal of Family Business Management, and the Arab Economic and Business Journal.

Dr. Lorna Treanor, who is an Editorial Board member and Consulting Editor for the International Small Business Journal and Vice President for Research of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE).

Webinar 2 – october 21, 2021

Using Abductive Experimentation in
Researching Entrepreneurship Interventions

Presented by
Professor Charlene Zietsma

Governments, NGOs, foundations and others are counting on entrepreneurship to combat poverty and overcome inequalities, supporting interventions for these purposes, especially for women. Yet many interventions around the world still teach entrepreneurial skills based on Western, male-dominated models, with limited cultural adaptation. Additionally, while such interventions are attracting research to measure effectiveness and impact, the use of experiments as a research method for doing so, remains rare.

Professor Zietsma used abductive experimentation (Kistruck & Slade Shantz, 2021) as a research methodology in studying entrepreneurship interventions. In this webinar she shared field experiment-based projects in Tunisia and Sri Lanka to demonstrate how entrepreneurship interventions benefit from cultural adaptation.

Professor Zietsma is Professor of Management, and the John & Becky Surma Dean’s Research Fellow at the Smeal College of Business, Pennyslvania State University, and International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. Charlene researches significant institutional change, focusing on addressing issues of sustainability and social justice. She examines the micro and macro contributors to and constraints against change. Her work has been published in top management journals (Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and others) and in 2016, she was awarded the ASQ Scholarly Contribution Award. She is a field editor for Journal of Business Venturing, senior editor for Organization Studies, and she serves on the editorial board for Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review.

Webinar 3 – december 15, 2021

Researching Entrepreneurial Women: Who Are They And How Do We Research Them? An Overview Of Two Recent Projects

Presented by
Professor Katerina Nicolopoulou

Professor Katerina Nicolopoulou discussed insights from projects funded by the UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) focusing on female entrepreneurship in unplanned communities of the Greater Cairo region as well as from an international project on female entrepreneurial leadership in family enterprises with cases from India, Malaysia, and Germany.

Professor Nicolopoulo is a Full Professor of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at Strathclyde University where she is also the Director of the Research Group Global Socially Progressive Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Director of Research at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. She is also a resident academic at the Strathclyde UAE centre, where she is in charge of Thought Leadership events and the Global DBA. Professor Nicolopoulo’s research profile focuses on Social, Sustainable and Diversity aspects of Entrepreneurship and Impactful Entrepreneurial Leadership. Her publications include 21 articles in journals such as Human Resource Management, Journal of Small Business Management, R&D Management, Business & Society, European Management Review, Organization & Environment, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 4 Special Issues including Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research and 4 books with E.Elgar and Routledge. She is also the Associate Editor for the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. She holds a PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics, an LLM from the University of Edinburgh and a BA (Hons) First Class from King’s College London.