Domain
The mission of the individual entrepreneurship division is to encourage understanding, research, and teaching about the independent entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial firm. The focus of this division is the journey of the founding entrepreneur or entrepreneurial team from activities leading to new venture initiation through the establishment of a sustainable business entity. Central interests include:

Life Cycle of the Entrepreneurial Experience

• New venture triggering events
• Entrepreneurial characteristics and behaviors
• Process of new venture initiation
• Financing new and growing ventures
• Emerging organization (functions and structures)
• Sequential entrepreneurs
• Nascent entrepreneurs

Learning in Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Individual and organizational learning
• Leadership development
• Culture formation
• Creativity and innovation
• Learning from key outsiders (stakeholders, investors, customers, service providers, and advisors)
• High performance/high growth firms
• Failure experiences of entrepreneurs

Division Officers - 2007

VP:  Eugene Fregetto, University of Illinois at Chicago, fregetto@uic.edu

Division History
2006 VP: Debbi Brock, Berea College
2005 VP: Jill Kickul, Simmons School of Management
2004 VP: Robert D'Intino, Pennsylvania State University
2003 VP: James Maxwell, State University of New York College at Buffalo
2002 VP: Jeffrey Alves, Wilkes University
2001 VP: Mary Wilson Callahan, Work In Progress
2000 VP: J. David Hunger, Iowa State University
1999 VP: Dennis Slevin, University of Pittsburgh
1998 VP: Carolyn Fausnaugh, Florida Institute of Technology
1997 VP: Frank Hoy, University of Texas-El Paso
1996 VP: Wendy Greenfield, WM Greenfield Associates
1995 VP: Joseph A. Petrick, Wright State University
1994 VP: Howard Van Auken, Iowa State University