CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
da Motta Veiga, S.P. & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2024, Aug). AI vs. Humans: Do Ethical Perceptions of AI Vary Between Recruiters And Applicants? Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, USA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2024, June). Artificial Intelligence and Circular Business Models: Does Embedding Intelligence Lead to Resource Efficiency? Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2023, Nov). Self-employment as an early-career option: A longitudinal study of individual and regional conditions. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, USA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2023, June). External enablement of women’s entrepreneurship in the U.S. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2022, Nov). Is self-employment a viable early-career option in a recession? A comparative study of individual and regional conditions. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), London, UK.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Clark, B.B. (2022, August). Artificial Intelligence in Hiring and Applicant Attraction. Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, Seattle, WA.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., Clark, B.B., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2021, Nov). Ethical perceptions of AI in the Hiring Process and Organizational Trust.
- North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2021, August). Start-up Entrepreneurial Finance of Women-Owned Firms in the United States. Academy of Management Conference, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Berns, J.P. (2021, Jan). Vulnerable Populations and Individual Social Responsibility in Prosocial Crowdfunding: Does the Framing Matter for Female and Rural Entrepreneurs? Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2020, Nov). Public entrepreneurial financing for women entrepreneurs? Evidence from the financial portfolio of U.S. business owners. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2020). Early-Career Self-Employment among Millennials in the Great Recession: Did Parenting during Adolescence Affect their Career Decisions?
- AOM's 1st Careers Division Community Conference (CarCon), Vienna, Austria, February.
- Academy of Management Conference, Virtual, August.
Hallowell, A., Crawley, A., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2019, Nov). The Role of Rural Labor Markets in Female Entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Pittsburgh, PA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Berns, J.P. (2019, Aug). Vulnerable Populations and Entrepreneurship in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2019, Jan). Predictors of Early-Career Self-Employment among Millennials in the Digital Economy: The Role of The Great Recession. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, HI.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2018, Nov). Predictors of Early-Career Self-employment among millennials: The Role of The Great Recession by Gender and Location. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, San Antonio, TX.
Javadian, G., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Dobratz, C. (2018, Nov). Not Just A Man's Job Anymore: Examining the Feminine Side of Entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association, Lexington, KY & Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, San Antonio, TX.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2018, June). Is Public Entrepreneurial Financing Contributing to Territorial Servitization in Manufacturing and KIBS in the US? Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association, Lugano, Switzerland.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2018, June). Individual and Family Predictors of Self-Employment as a Sustainable Career Option Among Millennials. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association, Lugano, Switzerland.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Berns, J.P. (2018, March). Unraveling the Role of Gender and Rurality in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference, Washington, DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2017, Nov). Entrepreneurship policy and territorial innovation: An examination of the manufacturing and knowledge intensive sectors in the United States. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver, BC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Berns, J.P. (2017, Nov). The Role of Gender, Rurality, and Teams in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver, BC.
Berns, J.P., Figueroa-Armijos, M., da Motta Veiga, S.P., & Dunne, T.C. (2016, Nov). Signaling and social identity in crowdfunding: Drivers and outcomes of crowdfunded entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Minneapolis, MN.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2015, Nov). What drives environmental entrepreneurship? The role of informal institutions in the sustainable regional economy. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Portland, OR, November 2015.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Berns, J.P. (2015, Aug). Institutions and the Financing of Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Role of Entrepreneurship Policy and Public Start-Up Capital. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Berns, J.P., Dunne, T., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2015, Aug). Funding from the head or the heart: An examination of entrepreneurial crowdfunding lending. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2014, March). Sustaining regional innovation: Start-up and expansion capital in family businesses. Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Johnson, T.G. (2013, Nov). The additionality of public start-up capital on U.S. entrepreneurial performance. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Atlanta, GA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Valdivia, C.B., & Higgins, K. (2013, June). Latino entrepreneurship in three new settlement communities in the Midwest: A comparative study. Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, Washington DC, April 2013 and Cambio de Colores Conference, St Louis, MO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Johnson, T.G. (2012, Nov). Optimizing public spending in an age of scarcity: Tax credit policy and economic development in Missouri. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2012, Jan). Toward a sustainable economy: A system dynamics model of entrepreneurship and regional wealth. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2012, June). The effect of US renewable energy policy on regional entrepreneurial outcomes and economic growth. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Dabson, B., & Johnson, T.G. (2011, Nov). Rural entrepreneurship in a time of recession. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Miami, FL.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Dabson, B. (2011, Oct). Entrepreneurship policy and tax credits: Does it matter for Kansas counties? Rural Wealth Creation and Livelihoods Conference, Washington DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Johnson, T.G. (2011, May). Women entrepreneurship in rural America: Necessity and opportunity from a three rural typology comparison. 7th Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference (MERC), Washington DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2011, March). Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship in America: A study on gender, rurality, and unemployment. 50th Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Dabson, B. (2010, Nov). The effect of entrepreneurship policy on economic growth: Network Kansas. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Denver, CO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2008, July). Strategies to develop market access that contribute to resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, Case study: PMCA and BAP for Chuño and Tunta. American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Alvarado, I., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2004, Oct). Education and its effect in the development of the entrepreneurial profile in youth from agricultural sectors: Case study. VII International Entrepreneurship Conference, Entrepreneurship Center, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN), El Salvador.
POSTERS
Stallmann, J.I., Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Steel, B.S. (2012). International Comparative Rural Policy Studies. North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Division of Community and Education (DOCE) Joint Meeting, River Falls, WI.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2012, June). Adapting to climate and market variability: The case of native potatoes in Bolivia. Adapting to Climate Change: Gaining the Advantage Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2008, May). Strategies to develop market access that contribute to resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, Case study: PMCA and BAP for Chuño and Tunta. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management-Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM-CRSP) Annual Meeting, Los Baños, Philippines.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2024
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2023
Euratechnologies, Startup Incubator and Accelerator, France, March 2022
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2022
Farmer School of Business, Miami University, USA, Sept 2021
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, October 2019
School of Economics, University of Maine, USA, Sept 2019
ULB - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium, December 2018
University of Texas at Dallas, USA, November 2018
University College Dublin, Ireland, May 2017
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), Washington, DC, USA, November 2016
ULB - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium, March 2016
KU Leuven - Research Center for Globalization, Innovation and Competition, Belgium, March 2016
School of Business, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2015
School of Public Affairs, CUNY Baruch College, New York, NY, USA, 2013
Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA, 2013
da Motta Veiga, S.P. & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2024, Aug). AI vs. Humans: Do Ethical Perceptions of AI Vary Between Recruiters And Applicants? Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, USA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2024, June). Artificial Intelligence and Circular Business Models: Does Embedding Intelligence Lead to Resource Efficiency? Regional Studies Association (RSA) Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2023, Nov). Self-employment as an early-career option: A longitudinal study of individual and regional conditions. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, USA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2023, June). External enablement of women’s entrepreneurship in the U.S. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2022, Nov). Is self-employment a viable early-career option in a recession? A comparative study of individual and regional conditions. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association (RSA), London, UK.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Clark, B.B. (2022, August). Artificial Intelligence in Hiring and Applicant Attraction. Academy of Management (AOM) Conference, Seattle, WA.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., Clark, B.B., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2021, Nov). Ethical perceptions of AI in the Hiring Process and Organizational Trust.
- North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2021, August). Start-up Entrepreneurial Finance of Women-Owned Firms in the United States. Academy of Management Conference, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Berns, J.P. (2021, Jan). Vulnerable Populations and Individual Social Responsibility in Prosocial Crowdfunding: Does the Framing Matter for Female and Rural Entrepreneurs? Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2020, Nov). Public entrepreneurial financing for women entrepreneurs? Evidence from the financial portfolio of U.S. business owners. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Virtual.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2020). Early-Career Self-Employment among Millennials in the Great Recession: Did Parenting during Adolescence Affect their Career Decisions?
- AOM's 1st Careers Division Community Conference (CarCon), Vienna, Austria, February.
- Academy of Management Conference, Virtual, August.
Hallowell, A., Crawley, A., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2019, Nov). The Role of Rural Labor Markets in Female Entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Pittsburgh, PA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Berns, J.P. (2019, Aug). Vulnerable Populations and Entrepreneurship in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2019, Jan). Predictors of Early-Career Self-Employment among Millennials in the Digital Economy: The Role of The Great Recession. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, HI.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2018, Nov). Predictors of Early-Career Self-employment among millennials: The Role of The Great Recession by Gender and Location. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, San Antonio, TX.
Javadian, G., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Dobratz, C. (2018, Nov). Not Just A Man's Job Anymore: Examining the Feminine Side of Entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association, Lexington, KY & Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, San Antonio, TX.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2018, June). Is Public Entrepreneurial Financing Contributing to Territorial Servitization in Manufacturing and KIBS in the US? Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association, Lugano, Switzerland.
da Motta Veiga, S.P., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2018, June). Individual and Family Predictors of Self-Employment as a Sustainable Career Option Among Millennials. Annual Meeting of the Regional Studies Association, Lugano, Switzerland.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Berns, J.P. (2018, March). Unraveling the Role of Gender and Rurality in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Conference, Washington, DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2017, Nov). Entrepreneurship policy and territorial innovation: An examination of the manufacturing and knowledge intensive sectors in the United States. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver, BC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Berns, J.P. (2017, Nov). The Role of Gender, Rurality, and Teams in Prosocial Crowdfunding. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Vancouver, BC.
Berns, J.P., Figueroa-Armijos, M., da Motta Veiga, S.P., & Dunne, T.C. (2016, Nov). Signaling and social identity in crowdfunding: Drivers and outcomes of crowdfunded entrepreneurship. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Minneapolis, MN.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2015, Nov). What drives environmental entrepreneurship? The role of informal institutions in the sustainable regional economy. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Portland, OR, November 2015.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Berns, J.P. (2015, Aug). Institutions and the Financing of Entrepreneurial Ventures: The Role of Entrepreneurship Policy and Public Start-Up Capital. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Berns, J.P., Dunne, T., Figueroa-Armijos, M., & da Motta Veiga, S.P. (2015, Aug). Funding from the head or the heart: An examination of entrepreneurial crowdfunding lending. Academy of Management Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2014, March). Sustaining regional innovation: Start-up and expansion capital in family businesses. Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, San Antonio, TX.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. & Johnson, T.G. (2013, Nov). The additionality of public start-up capital on U.S. entrepreneurial performance. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Atlanta, GA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Valdivia, C.B., & Higgins, K. (2013, June). Latino entrepreneurship in three new settlement communities in the Midwest: A comparative study. Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, Washington DC, April 2013 and Cambio de Colores Conference, St Louis, MO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Johnson, T.G. (2012, Nov). Optimizing public spending in an age of scarcity: Tax credit policy and economic development in Missouri. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, Baltimore, MD.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2012, Jan). Toward a sustainable economy: A system dynamics model of entrepreneurship and regional wealth. Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2012, June). The effect of US renewable energy policy on regional entrepreneurial outcomes and economic growth. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Dabson, B., & Johnson, T.G. (2011, Nov). Rural entrepreneurship in a time of recession. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Miami, FL.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Dabson, B. (2011, Oct). Entrepreneurship policy and tax credits: Does it matter for Kansas counties? Rural Wealth Creation and Livelihoods Conference, Washington DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Johnson, T.G. (2011, May). Women entrepreneurship in rural America: Necessity and opportunity from a three rural typology comparison. 7th Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference (MERC), Washington DC.
Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2011, March). Necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship in America: A study on gender, rurality, and unemployment. 50th Southern Regional Science Association (SRSA) Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Dabson, B. (2010, Nov). The effect of entrepreneurship policy on economic growth: Network Kansas. Annual Meeting of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) and the Regional Science Association International, Denver, CO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2008, July). Strategies to develop market access that contribute to resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, Case study: PMCA and BAP for Chuño and Tunta. American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.
Alvarado, I., & Figueroa-Armijos, M. (2004, Oct). Education and its effect in the development of the entrepreneurial profile in youth from agricultural sectors: Case study. VII International Entrepreneurship Conference, Entrepreneurship Center, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN), El Salvador.
POSTERS
Stallmann, J.I., Figueroa-Armijos, M., Johnson, T.G., & Steel, B.S. (2012). International Comparative Rural Policy Studies. North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture/National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Division of Community and Education (DOCE) Joint Meeting, River Falls, WI.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2012, June). Adapting to climate and market variability: The case of native potatoes in Bolivia. Adapting to Climate Change: Gaining the Advantage Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Figueroa-Armijos, M., & Valdivia, C.B. (2008, May). Strategies to develop market access that contribute to resilience in the Bolivian Highlands, Case study: PMCA and BAP for Chuño and Tunta. Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management-Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM-CRSP) Annual Meeting, Los Baños, Philippines.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2024
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2023
Euratechnologies, Startup Incubator and Accelerator, France, March 2022
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, March 2022
Farmer School of Business, Miami University, USA, Sept 2021
ESCP Europe Business School, Paris, October 2019
School of Economics, University of Maine, USA, Sept 2019
ULB - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium, December 2018
University of Texas at Dallas, USA, November 2018
University College Dublin, Ireland, May 2017
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), Washington, DC, USA, November 2016
ULB - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium, March 2016
KU Leuven - Research Center for Globalization, Innovation and Competition, Belgium, March 2016
School of Business, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2015
School of Public Affairs, CUNY Baruch College, New York, NY, USA, 2013
Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA, 2013