11ème

Congrès AEI [3-5 juin 2019]

Appel à communications dans le track n°12 – Entrepreneuriat et

Spiritualité

Adresse d’envoi de la proposition : aei2019-entrepreneuriat-

spiritualite@umontpellier.fr

Titre du track :

Enterpreneurship and Spirituality

Responsable(s) :

Katherine GUNDOLF (Montpellier Business School, MRM) – k.gundolf@montpellier-bs.com

Frank Janssen (UCL – LouRIM) – frank.janssen@uclouvain.be

Présentation

The impact of spirituality (i.e. religion) has been widely studied in a macro-economic and -societal

context, since the founding writings of Max Weber (1930). The main idea is that spirituality significantly influences societies’ development by the transmission of a system of implicit or explicit values that provides a frame to the actor, by giving sense to its actions (Gundolf & Filser, 2013). However, the effect of spirituality on performance at a national level remains controversial, as stressed by Cavalcanti et al. (2007): ‘‘We attribute the fact that Weber’s thesis continues to be controversial nearly 100 years after its conception to the failure of social sciences to adequately quantify the effects of religion on the aggregate performance of economies’’ (Cavalcanti et al. 2007, p. 106).

Even if the underlying question remains unresolved in the macro-economic context, the question may be of relevance at the enterprise’s level. Underlying questions might be:

- Does spirituality affects an enterprise’s performance?

- Does spirituality influence an entrepreneur’s behavior?

- If yes, how? Etc.

The answers to these questions will probably be numerous and highly dependent on the context. And even if spirituality is a basic element of each culture, it remains obscure to which levels it directly impacts human behavior. As underlined by Chan-Serafin et al. (2013) and Audretsch, Boente, and Tamvada (2013), even if the topic is of great importance, there is little grounded research on spirituality in the context of enterprises.

One thing seems to be clear: the topic is gaining relevance, as shown by Gundolf and Filser (2013) in their citation analysis. The number of publications in business research journals has grown exponentially since 2000. This is also emphasized by the fact that the Academy of Management created a Management, Spirituality, and Religion Interest Group. As the importance of the topic is growing, there is a great need for transversal, intercultural studies exploring this phenomenon in the specific entrepreneurial context. Substantial efforts must still be done (Chan-Serafin, et al., 2013). And although a small body of literature has started to explore this domain, the results are equivocal (Audretsch, et al., 2013).

Références : Atkinson, W. (2000). Divine accommodations: Religion in the workplace, Risk

Management Risk Management 47, 12-17. Audretsch, D., Boente, W., & Tamvada, J. P. (2013). Religion, social class, and entrepreneurial choice.

Journal of Business Venturing, 28, 774-789. Cavalcanti, T., Parente, S., & Zhao, R. (2007). Religion in macroeconomics: a quantitative analysis of

Weber's thesis. Economic Theory, 32, 105-123. Chan-Serafin, S., Brief, A., & George, J. (2013). How Does Religion Matter and Why? Religion and

Organisational Sciences. Organization Science, 24, 1585-1600. Clark, S. C. (2000). Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance. Human Relations,

53, 747-770. Gundolf, K., & Filser, M. (2013). Management research and religion: A citation analysis. Journal of

Business Ethics, 112, 177-185. King-Kauanui, S. K., Thomas, K. D., Sherman, C. L., Waters, G. R., & Gilea, M. (2008). Exploring

entrepreneurship through the lens of spirituality. Journal of management, spirituality & religion, 5, 160–189.

Morgan, J. F. (2004). How Should Business Respond to a More Religious Workplace? SAM Advanced Management Journal, 69, 11-19.

Weber, M. (1930). The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Scribner Publishers.

Instructions aux auteurs

Types de soumissions acceptées :

papiers longs (papiers complets)

papiers courts (3 000 mots max., sous-rubriques imposées : Introduction/Objectifs (500

mots max.) ; Revue de littérature (500 mots max.) ; Approche/méthodologie (500 mots

max.) ; Résultats (500 mots max.) ; Discussion (500 mots max.) ; Implications et limites

(500 mots max.).

Les papiers doivent être originaux (non publiés, non en processus d’évaluation dans une

revue ou un colloque). Un contrôle anti-plagiat des papiers sera effectué.

Les papiers doivent respecter les consignes de présentation suivantes :

En Microsoft Word format A4 ;

Interligne 1,5 incluant les notes bibliographiques (en interligne simple) ;

Police : Times New Roman, corps 12 points ;

Titres et sous-titres en caractères gras, numérotés sous la forme 1, 1.1 et 1.1.1. ;

Numérotation des pages au centre et en bas de page ;

Marges haute, basse, droite et gauche de 2,5 cm ;

Références bibliographiques rappelées en fin de document ;

Noms des auteurs référencés dans le corps du texte entre parenthèses et suivis de l’année

d’édition. Les articles non conformes à ces exigences de mise en page seront renvoyés à leurs

auteurs.

Calendrier

10/01/2019 : réception des communications (papiers courts – max 3000 mots – ou longs)

15/03/2019 : notification aux auteurs

15/04/2019 : réception des papiers révisés, courts ou longs, dans leur version définitive

Dates du congrès : 3-5 juin 2019