8th Effectuation Conference: Building the Global Effectual Classroom
November 13, 2023 - November 14, 2023

Effectuation is at the vanguard of entrepreneurship research and practice as a scientifically validated method that arms aspiring entrepreneurs with a toolkit to design bold, creative, and unexpected solutions. In our post-pandemic world where global challenges threaten to upend our lives with unprecedented crises, teaching effectuation as means to forge better entrepreneurs was never this urgent.

The 8th effectuation conference theme is “Building the Global Effectual Classroom”. We invite authors to submit their work and come to the conference to engage in a discussion about bringing teaching, practice, and research by leveraging our global community with a presence in all five continents. Besides the traditional conference discussion, we will host a mastermind of both experienced and new researcher/educators aiming to launch a global research consortium that blends scientific rigor, empirical relevance, and impact.

Co-branded with ECSB and scheduled in tandem with the RENT Conference, the 2023 Effectuation Conference will take place in Gdansk, Poland. We provide a description of each of the elements of this conference, followed by a daily agenda, with updates available on the conference website: http://www.effectuation.org

In the tradition of Effectuation Conference in past years, the format will offer plenary sessions as well as small group research and practice “pods” where your submissions can be developed into full-fledged research articles and teaching materials. We will, of course, also enjoy the “effectual” dinner and debrief as usual.