Keynote: Management Activities & Practices: Extending SAP to Include Other Organizational Practices

William B. Gartner is known for his scholarship on entrepreneurial behavior and for helping to create the entrepreneurship as practice community. He was instrumental in taking the Entrepreneurship Interest Group to Division Status in the 1980s. His keynote proposes that the members of SAP consider involving scholars from other practice areas (e.g., entrepreneurship as practice, leadership as practice, innovation as practice, etc.) and, with this more inclusive orientation, seek Division Status under the umbrella of “Management Activities and Practices.” In addition, he will offer some thoughts on the value and importance of fieldwork as the primary focus of scholarship on management activities and practices, regardless of its current value for theorizing.