Management School

We are delighted to invite you to the 21^st New Institutionalism Workshop (NIW), to be held at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), UK.

The NIW is an annual event aiming to unite scholars from diverse disciplines, countries, and academic traditions to push the theoretical and empirical frontiers of research on institutions in a broad sense.

The NIW provides an open forum for experienced academics, early career scholars, as well as doctoral students to meet and have engaging conversations, for reflections on existing work, as well as sharing innovative research ideas and approaches. 

We are delighted to welcome you to the 11th Annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference, which will be hosted at the University of Liverpool Management School, 7-10th April, 2026.

As a research community, this conference aims to advance our understanding of entrepreneurship-as-practice, foster network ties, facilitate collaborative writing relationships, and build a strong community of practice scholars.

Building on this tradition, our theme for the eleventh edition of this conference will be “Entrepreneuring and Knowing From the Inside: A Dialogue between entrepreneurship processes and practices”. Find out more here:

Keynote speakers

• Professor Jeffrey McMullen (Imperial Business School, UK)

• Professor Raghu Garud (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

• Professor Boukje Cnossen (Leuphana University, Germany)

• Albert Read, Executive Chairman of The Evening Standard and Former    Managing Director of Condé Nast Britain.