How do founders leave marks that outlast them? Markus Becker walks through the mechanisms of organizational imprinting, and a career-long fascination with how ...
Tag: Entrepreneurship
Milo Shaoqing Wang and Christopher Steele trace how China's private entrepreneurs went from politically suspect to officially celebrated, and how a second-year PhD ...
In the favela training program Leandro Pongeluppe studied, local women entrepreneurs generated the biggest employment gains, evidence for his argument that residents, not ...
ASQ Interview
Crosina (2024). Co-Constructing Community and Entrepreneurial Identity: How Founders Ascribe Self-Referential Meanings to Entrepreneurship.
How do you get a coworking space to treat you like any other tenant? Eliana Crosina describes months of hanging out at OfficeCo, ...
ASQ Interview
Grandy & Hiatt (2020) State Agency Discretion and Entrepreneurship in Regulated Markets
Jake Grandy came to business school from public policy and noticed what nonmarket strategy overlooked: agency bureaucrats with discretion. He and Shon Hiatt ...
ASQ Interview
Kim (2021). Frame Restructuration: The Making of an Alternative Business Incubator amid Detroit’s Crisis
A departmental retreat at a Detroit incubator handed Suntae Kim his dissertation site. He describes three years of fieldwork amid the city's crisis ...
ASQ Interview
Krishnan, Cook, Kozhikode, & Schilke (2021). An interaction ritual theory of social resource exchange: Evidence from a Silicon Valley accelerator
Accelerators tell entrepreneurs to give before they ask, then rank them against each other every week. Rekha Krishnan, Karen Cook, Rajiv Kozhikode, and ...
Yanbo Wang once spent two years cleaning a dataset that yielded nothing. He and coauthors Toby Stuart and Jizhen Li discuss studying fraud ...
Christine Beckman announces the 2021 ASQ awards: Sarah Thébaud wins the Award for Scholarly Contribution and Nathan Wilmers the Dissertation Award, with video ...
ASQ Interview
Thébaud (2015). Business as Plan B: Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries
Sarah Thébaud on connecting the gender-and-institutions literature to entrepreneurship, why an Etsy shop and a venture-backed startup are not the same phenomenon, and ...
ASQ Interview
Marquis and Qiao (2020) Waking from Mao’s Dream: Communist Ideological Imprinting and the Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Ventures in China
Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao ask what happens to a communist ideological imprint when the party that created it reverses course, and why ...
ASQ Interview
Lashley & Pollock (2019). Waiting to Inhale: Reducing Stigma in the Medical Cannabis Industry
Kisha Lashley and Timothy Pollock on studying medical cannabis entrepreneurs back when dispensaries were still being raided, and what it took to get ...
ASQ Interview
Abraham (2019). Gender-role Incongruity and Audience-based Gender Bias: An Examination of Networking among Entrepreneurs
Mabel Abraham on why an audience can produce gender bias even when nobody in it is actually biased: entrepreneurs make inferences about others' ...
ASQ Interview
MCDONALD & EISENHARDT. (2019). Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and Effective Business-model Design.
Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt began studying Fintech startups before winners, losers, or even market viability had emerged. They discuss building theory from ...
ASQ Interview
Cohen, Bingham, and Hallen (2019). The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures
Susan Cohen began studying accelerators in 2011, puzzled that new programs copying Y Combinator's recipe got wildly different results. With Christopher Bingham and ...
ASQ Interview
Kroezen & Heugens (2018). What Is Dead May Never Die: Institutional Regeneration through Logic Reemergence in Dutch Beer Brewing
Jochem Kroezen entered a microbrewery project as a self-described quantitative person who knew little beyond Heineken. He recounts how a decade with Dutch ...
ASQ Interview
Ter Wal, Alexy, Block & Sanders (2016). The Best of Both Worlds: The Benefits of Open-specialized and Closed-diverse Syndication Networks for New Ventures’ Success
Can a network deliver brokerage's diverse information and closure's trust at the same time? Anne ter Wal, Oliver Alexy, Jorn Block, and Philipp ...
ASQ Podcast
Greenberg & Mollick (2017): Activist Choice Homophily and the Crowdfunding of Female Founders
Ethan Mollick joins the podcast to explain a puzzle he and Jason Greenberg chased: why women outperform men on Kickstarter, and why they ...
ASQ Interview
Dutta (2017): Creating in the Crucibles of Nature’s Fury–Associational Diversity and Local Social Entrepreneurship after Natural Disasters in California, 1991–2010
Why do some communities answer natural disasters with a burst of social entrepreneurship? Sunasir Dutta points to the variety of local voluntary associations, ...
ASQ Interview
Chen & Nadkarni (2017): It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy research long treated time as an external constraint imposed on executives. Jianhong Chen and Sucheta Nadkarni explain why they went looking inside ...
ASQ Interview
Pontikes & Barnett (2016). The Non-Consensus Entrepreneur: Organizational Responses to Vital Events
Why do software startups herd into hot market categories, and what happens to the companies that follow the crowd? Elizabeth Pontikes and William ...
ASQ Interview
Navis and Glynn (2010). How new market categories emerge: temporal dynamics of legitimacy, identity, and entrepreneurship in satellite radio, 1990-2005
Chad Navis and Mary Ann Glynn on how satellite radio became a market category, and how they built theory that speaks to both ...
ASQ Interview
Huang and Pearce (2015). Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions
How do angel investors decide when outcomes are unknowable? Laura Huang and Jone Pearce recount building a mixed-methods paper around gut feel, the ...
ASQ Interview
Pahnke, Katila, & Eisenhardt (2015). Who Takes You to the Dance? How Partners’ Institutional Logics Influence Innovation in Young Firms
Emily Cox Pahnke, Riitta Katila, and Kathleen Eisenhardt describe turning a dissertation into a study of how funding partners' institutional logics shape young ...
ASQ Interview
Haveman, Habinek, & Goodman (2012). How Entrepreneurship Evolves: The Founders of New Magazines in America, 1741–1860
Heather Haveman planned to study careers in the American magazine industry, until the data made that impossible. She, Jacob Habinek, and Leo Goodman ...
ASQ Interview
Kacperczyk (2013). Opportunity Structures in Established Firms: Entrepreneurship versus Intrapreneurship in Mutual Funds
Google and Amazon spend billions keeping employees entrepreneurial, yet research says large firms produce fewer founders. Aleksandra Kacperczyk describes reassessing that conventional wisdom ...
ASQ Interview
Almandoz (2014). Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics: When Institutional Forces Predict Banks’ Risk Exposure
Juan Almandoz came to academia after business and nonprofit careers, curious why the same work means such different things to different people. He ...