Research

Academic publications exploring entrepreneurship, innovation, and organizational change

80+
Publications
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Citations
45
H-Index
20+
Years Active

Entrepreneurial Process

Understanding how entrepreneurial opportunities emerge and evolve through action and imagination.

Innovation Theory

Exploring the relationship between uncertainty, creativity, and breakthrough innovation.

Venture Capital & Finance

Examining funding mechanisms and financial aspects of entrepreneurial ventures.

Selected Publications

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Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping

Single Author

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2025

Volume 37, Issue 5-6, Pages 643-652

Advocates for developing a philosophy of entrepreneurship to provide theoretical maintenance and regulation in entrepreneurship research. Drawing on Quine's philosophical work, addresses fundamental questions about ontological commitments and theoretical development, connecting practice and scholarship communities.

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Grounding and Developing the Design Perspective on Entrepreneurship: From Individual–Opportunity Nexus to Artifact-Centered Triad

With Henrik Berglund

Journal of Management Inquiry, 2025

Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 272-285

Develops a triadic design perspective on entrepreneurship incorporating artifacts alongside individuals and environmental circumstances, moving beyond the traditional individual-opportunity nexus. Reconceptualizes opportunities as actively framed situations where ventures are designed through entrepreneurial artifacts.

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Entrepreneurs as Architects: Design(ing) Focus in Entrepreneurship Education

With Yashar Mansoori

Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, 2025

Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 452-484

Develops a framework for embedding design as a distinct capability in entrepreneurship education, conceptualizing entrepreneurial action as design through activities of framing, modeling, and performing. Provides practical guidance for entrepreneurship educators.

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Action! Moving beyond the intendedly-rational logics of entrepreneurship

With Daniel Lerner and Richard Hunt

Journal of Business Venturing

Exploring the implications for entrepreneurship theory of action without reason, proposing that entrepreneurial processes can be initiated by non-deliberate actions whose consequences give rise to purpose.

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Additional Publications

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