Effectuation
Effectuation - Awards
Awards
Major Awards
Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy is the recipient of many awards for her contributions to research, teaching and the practice of entrepreneurship. Some of her most notable accolades include:
2023 The Schumpeter Lecturer at the SME Assembly, the most significant event for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. An invitation from the European Commission to deliver the prestigious Schumpeter “Innovation in Enterprise” Lecture is an honor bestowed on leading figures in the field of entrepreneurship.
2022 The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, the highest recognition for research in the field of entrepreneurship awarded by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics.
Honorary Doctorates and Other Honors
2024 Honorary Doctor, Athens University of Economics and Business
2022 Honorary Doctor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
2022 5th Herbert Simon Society Honorary Lecturer (The other four were Joseph Stiglitz, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ralph Hertwig and Hersh Shefrin.)
2020 Small Business Economics devoted a special issue (Volume 54, Issue 3) to effectuation: Effectuation and entrepreneurship theory: How effectuation relates to other concepts, models, and theories within entrepreneurship
2019 Legacy Award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC).
2017 Academy of Management’s Foundational Paper Award, for “Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency” (2001) published in the Academy of Management Review.
2015 Mead-Colley Faculty Award from the University of Virginia for teaching excellence.
2013 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Babson College
2007 Named one of the top 18 professors in the field of entrepreneurship by the former Fortune Small Business magazine.