Open Workshop: The Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurial Intention – Impressions from an ongoing Review Journey
Friday, April 5, 2019, 15:00 – 17:00
SSE Riga, W32
The aim of the Open Workshop Series in Business and Management Studies is to promote top-quality academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences. This is a unique opportunity for sharing knowledge and networking with local and international community members.
Speaker: Dr. Rainer Harms, University of Twente, the Netherlands
This session will be all about typical reviewers comments and how to address them. I will share a paper that is work-in-progress, the reviewers’ comments, my reaction, and some generalizations that may be drawn from these reactions. The topic of the paper is about Hypersensitivity and Entrepreneurial Intention. Hypersensitivity is a character trait that reflects the degree to which a person recognizes and processes sensory input. Some persons are particularly sensitive to sensory input. Inspired by the literature on person-environment fit and the literature on the (beneficial) effects of ill-reputed personal conditions for entrepreneurship, we hypothesize about the relationship between highly sensitive persons (HSPs) and entrepreneurial intention. In particular we argue that highly sensitive persons are more sensitive to environmental and social stimuli, and process them more deeply than most other people. They are highly emphatic and able to recognize opportunities. At the same time, they tend to become over-aroused and overwhelmed, leading to high stress levels and avoidance tactics. In this paper, we adopt a person-environment fit approach and the opportunity-recognition process perspective and argue that, in entrepreneurship, HSPs can indeed attend to their own needs and turn their weaknesses into strengths.
Dr. Rainer Harms is an Associate Professor at University Twente since 2012. Rainer have published in leading journals of the field, such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and others. He have published 50+ publications in scientific journals, edited 4 special issues of scientific journals of the field and have 100+ conference presentations at international conferences. His h-factor (GS) is at 20 (2017). His current research topics include: capabilities for early internationalization of technology-based ventures; antecedents to international sequencing strategies; the role of learning in the technology venture development process.
Rainer obtained a PhD in Business Administration from WWU Münster, one of the leading universities on Business Administration in Germany, with a study on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Entrepreneurial Management (runner-up of best dissertation award at WWU Business&Economics). He defended his Habilitation in Business Administration from AAU Klagenfurt on a work on Complexity and Dynamics in new venture creation processes. He has served as visiting professor at prestigious universities such as WU Vienna, UAB Barcelona, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, and was visiting researcher at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA.
Discussion moderated by Dr. Arnis Sauka.
Attendance is free of charge.
Please sign up for the seminar, writing to arnis.sauka@sseriga.edu by April 3, 2019.
The aim of the SSE Riga Open Workshop Series is to:
- Foster cooperation between business and management researchers, practitioners and policy makers, as well as
- to promote academic and applied research in various fields of the social sciences, focusing on but not limited to entrepreneurship, marketing, management, public administration and strategy.
Organised by the Centre for Sustainable Business at SSE Riga.
