6th Belgian Entrepreneurship Research Day (BERD)

Après Anvers (2010), Louvain-la-Neuve (2011), Hasselt-Diepenbeek (2012), Bruxelles (2013) et Gand (2014), la faculté des Sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion de l'Université de Namur accueille le sixième BERD. Le BERD réunit annuellement les chercheurs belges en entrepreneuriat pour la présentation et la discussion de leurs travaux. Cette année, il accueille le professeur Jörn Block (Universität Trier) pour une intervention titrée "Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research: Ten Observations on Differences and Commonalities".

PROGRAM

09.00                       Get together and coffee - first floor

09 .30-09.40            Welcome – Auditorium E13, first floor Marcus DEJARDIN (CERPE, University of Namur and Université catholique de Louvain)
09.40-10.30             Keynote - Auditorium E13, first floor
                                Prof. Jörn BLOCK (Universität Trier)
                                Entrepreneurship and Family Business Research: Ten Observations on Differences and Commonalities

10.40-12.10          Parallel sessions I & II

 

Session I. Control and financing of family firms

(Chair: Wim VOORDECKERS) – Auditorium E31, third floor

Revising the traditional contingency perspective on the choice of management control systems in a family business context, Zoë HELSEN, Nadine LYBAERT, Raf ORENS, Tensie STEIJVERS, Julie DEKKER.

Discussant: Marc DELOOF

Outside CEOs, board control and the financing policy of small privately held family firms, Andy LARDON, Marc DELOOF, Ann JORISSEN.

Discussant: Ine PAELEMAN

Working for divergent principals: effects of private equity on employment levels and employment terms in family firms, Sophie MANIGART, Miguel MEULEMAN, Jeroen NECKEBROUCK.

Discussant: Vincent MOLLY

 

Session II. Growth

(Chair: Frank JANSSEN) – Auditorium E33, third floor

Private family firm growth: A configurational approach involving board strategy involvement, entrepreneurial orientation and socioemotional wealth. Robin DEMAN, Ann JORISSEN, Eddy LAVEREN.

Discussant: Olivier WITMEUR

SMEs’ fast internationalization: the mediating role of precocity and speed, Marine FALIZE, Régis COEURDEROY.

Discussant: Eddy LAVEREN

Institutional environment, entrepreneurial activity and economic growth: Lessons for developing countries, David URBANO, Sebastian APARICIO.

Discussant: Hélène LAURENT

 

12.30-14.00          Lunch at Restaurant Le Vauban

14.10-15.10       Parallel sessions III & IV

Session III. Entrepreneurial orientation and sustainability

(Chair: Olivier WITMEUR) – Auditorium E31, third floor

Embeddedness as a facilitator of sustainable entrepreneurship, Frédéric DUFAYS.

Discussant: Julie HERMANS

Causation and effectuation in turbulent times: Conditional impact on entrepreneurial orientation, Johanna VANDERSTRAETEN, Julie HERMANS, Dendi RAMDANI, Arjen VAN WITTELOOSTUIJN, Marcus DEJARDIN.

Discussant: Frédéric DUFAYS

Session IV. Entrepreneurial finance

(Chair: Marc DELOOF) – Auditorium E33, third floor

The discourse of the luxury entrepreneur as means to influence the investment decision of a potential investor, Amélie WUILLAUME.

Discussant: Katarzyna CIESLIK

Unruly entrepreneurs. Value creation and value capture by microfinance clients in rural Burundi, Katarzyna CIESLIK, Marek HUDON, Philip VERWIMP.

Discussant: Thomas STANDAERT

 

15.10-15.30         Coffee break - Room Camille Joset, 401, Fourth Floor

15.30-17.00       Parallel sessions V & VI

Session V. Entrepreneurship and critical events
(Chair: Vincent MOLLY) – Auditorium E31, third floor

Do certain exit routes lead to the intention to start a business again? Roxane DE HOE, Olivier GIACOMIN et Frank JANSSEN.

Discussant: Jeroen NECKEBROUCK

The effect of contractual and relational governance mechanisms on succession planning in private family firms, Ine UMANS, Nadine LYBAERT, Tensie STEIJVERS, Wim VOORDECKERS.

Discussant: Amélie JACQUEMIN

Do firms consume or stockpile financial slack during an environmental jolt? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment, Ine PAELEMAN, Tom VANACKER.

Discussant: Aydin INEMEK

 

Session VI. Public policy issues in entrepreneurship

(Chair: Eddy LAVEREN) – Auditorium E33, third floor

 

Images of entrepreneurship: analysis of the public discourse of entrepreneurship and its economic, political and social context, Tine HOLVOET.

Discussant: Sylvain LUC

An in-depth analysis of a government fund-of-fund programme: Effect on portfolio companies, Thomas STANDAERT, Sophie MANIGART.

Discussant: Gilles Eric FOMBASSO

The effect of the type of measures used by public authorities on the effectiveness of their intervention in the SME sector, Gilles Eric FOMBASSO.

Discussant: Marcus DEJARDIN

 

17.00               Farewell Drink – Room E02, ground floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact : Marcus Dejardin - +32 81 72 48 28 - marcus.dejardin@unamur.be
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