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This paper proposes a framework to create a small business and entrepreneurship accelerator designed based on prior work in evolving traditional place-based pedagogy to a more critical pedagogy of place. The case is crafted to utilize the built-in resources of a university as the core components in providing necessary resources for success, including expert-level technical assistance and a safe, empowering third space for collaboration. The included case focuses on a suburban/urban campus near several historically underserved geographies. This is important as the proposed framework for a small business and entrepreneurship accelerator focuses on educating and guiding local populations--including high school students--in growing their businesses. The case in this paper brings together university resources, local community elements, small business owners, social entrepreneurs, and high school students by activating a critical pedagogy of place rooted in improving economic conditions while addressing social issues.

The benefits of undergraduate research continue to receive academic attention and it is becoming an engaged learning practice present on many college campuses today. As research participation grows, an opportunity exists to showcase the work being accomplished and to use this public presentation to foster a culture of undergraduate research on campus, lobby for additional funding, and increase student and faculty participation. We describe the innovation and evolution of a student conference in business, sharing lessons learned and measureable results for the ten years this conference has been in place.

AACSB accreditation, a student-centered mission statement, and the continuous quality improvement that most educators engage in have resulted in an increase in student research projects. This presented an opportunity to develop a venue for students to showcase their research. The paper describes a model for a student research conference in business that has resulted in increased student engagement and an increase in student-faculty research collaboration.

The theory of intraperson games propounded by Ding (2007) proposes internal constructs of consumer decision making that are labeled as efficiency agents and equity agents. The next important step in theory development is the creation of empirically validated scales, so that managers may be able to use the theory in a strategic and meaningful manner while examining consumer decision making processes. We operationalize the theoretical constructs of efficiency and equity agents and proceed to develop multi-item measures of the constructs. We empirically validate the scales using a national random sample of three hundred respondents and arrive at validated scales that may be used for future studies. Our results will be of interest to academic scholars and marketing practitioners that would like to use the theory of intraperson games in their strategy formulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]