{"id":49167,"date":"2018-02-01T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49167"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:27:38","slug":"speaker-series-to-explore-entrepreneurship-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/speaker-series-to-explore-entrepreneurship-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker series to explore entrepreneurship research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next instalment of the Goodman School of Business Luncheon Speaker Series will explore entrepreneurial business expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eugene Kaciak, Goodman Professor of Management, will present the crowd with his co-authored paper, \u201cCountry-level determinants and consequences of overconfidence in the ambitious entrepreneurship segment,\u201d on Friday, Feb. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The paper, recently published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Small Business Journal, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">focuses on the gap between the ambition of entrepreneurs and their follow-through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although this gap, known in the research as \u2018entrepreneurial overconfidence,\u2019 exists universally, Kaciak analyzed how it varied by country to find out where entrepreneurs have the most realistic or unrealistic expectations of their business success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research shows that a significant gap can have a detrimental effect on a country\u2019s prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its 12th year, Goodman\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/goodman\/faculty-research\/luncheon-speaker-series\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luncheon Speaker Series<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides an informal and engaging opportunity to listen and discuss recent advances in research, teaching and practices with colleagues internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is being held in Taro Hall 203 on Friday, Feb. 2 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Space is limited. Goodman faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to attend. Brock community members wishing to attend can email Jennifer Brisson at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:jbrisson@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jbrisson@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to reserve a seat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next instalment of the Goodman School of Business Luncheon Speaker Series will explore entrepreneurial business expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,39,7],"tags":[5665,594,2283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49169,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49167\/revisions\/49169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}