L.I.F.E. Research Conference 2021

Bio

Ted Baker is a professor and the George F. Farris Chair in Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University. His current work focuses on Founder Identity Theory. Past research has included work on bricolage and improvisation in entrepreneurship.

Affiliations

• Professor and the George F. Farris Chair in Entrepreneurship at Rutgers University

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• New Ventures
• Prosocial Enterprise

Featured Research

• E. Erin Powell, Ralph Hamann, Verena Bitzer and Ted Baker. 2018. Bringing the Elephant into the Room? Enacting conflict in collective prosocial organizing. Journal of Business Venturing, 33: 623-642.
• E. Erin Powell and Ted Baker. 2017. In the Beginning: Identity processes and organizing in multi-founder nascent ventures. Academy of Management Journal: 60(6): 2381-2414.
• Powell, E., and Baker, T. (2014). It's What You Make of It: Founder Identity and Enacting Strategic Responses to Adversity. Academy of Management Journal, 57, 1406-1433.
• Ted Baker and Friederike Welter. 2017. Come on out of the ghetto please! - Building the future of entrepreneurship research. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 23(2), 170-184.
• Ted Baker and E. Erin Powell. 2018. Entrepreneurship as a new Liberal Art. Small Business Economics:52, 405-418.

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Saulo Dubard Barbosa is a professor of entrepreneurship at Em-Lyon. His research focuses on social entrepreneurship, motivation, decision-making, and human development. He teaches courses in social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial practice.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship at EMLYON Business School

Faith-Related Topics

• New Ventures
• Decision-Making
• Social Entrepreneurship

Featured Research

• Laffineur, C., Barbosa, S., Fayolle, A., and Montmartin, B. (2020). The unshackled entrepreneur: Occupational determinants of entrepreneurial effort. Journal of Business Venturing, 35, 105983.
• Barbosa, S., Fayolle, A., and Smith, B. (2019). Biased and overconfident, unbiased but going for it: How framing and anchoring affect the decision to start a new venture. Journal of Business Venturing, 34, 528-557.

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Steve Bradley is a professor of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation at Baylor University. His teaching focuses on strategic entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship policy. He serves on the editorial boards for the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, T. Stevens Chair of Free Enterprise at Baylor University

Faith-Related Topics

• Motivation/Mindset
• Partnerships
• Organization Theory

Featured Research

• Browder, R.E., Aldrich, H., and Bradley, S. (2019). The emergence of the maker movement: Implications for entrepreneurship research. Journal of Business Venturing, 34, 459-476.
• Wiklund, J., Nikolaev, B., Shir, N., Foo, M., and Bradley, S. (2019). Entrepreneurship and well-being: past, present, and future. Journal of Business Venturing, 34, 579-588.
• Milanov, H., Justo, R., and Bradley, S. (2015). Making the most of group relationships: The role of gender and boundary effects in microcredit groups. Journal of Business Venturing, 30, 822-838.

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Lowell Busenitz is the Michael F. Price Chair in Entrepreneurship Emeritus at Oklahoma University. His research focuses on decision-making, new venture opportunities, and resource acquisition. He teaches at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. level.

Affiliations

• Michael F. Price Chair in Entrepreneurship Emeritus at Oklahoma University

Faith-Related Topics

• Venture Capital
• Decision-Making
• New Ventures

Featured Research

• Tang, J., Kacmar, K.M., and Busenitz, L.W. (2012). Entrepreneurial alertness in the pursuit of new opportunities. Journal of Business Venturing, 27, 77-94.
• Fiet, J.O., Busenitz, L.W., Moesel, D.D., and Barney, J. (1997). Complementary theoretical perspectives on the dismissal of new venture team members. Journal of Business Venturing, 12, 347-366.
• Townsend, D.M. and Busenitz, L.W. 2014. Turning water into wine? Exploring the role of dynamic capabilities in early-stage capitalization processes. Journal of Business Venturing, In Press
• Pidduck, R.J., Busenitz, L.W., Zhang, Y., and Moulick, A.G. (2020). Oh, the places you’ll go: A schema theory perspective on cross-cultural experience and entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 14, e00189 - e00189. p

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Melissa Cardon is a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Tennessee. Her recent work focuses on entrepreneurial passion and teams. She is a field editor for the Journal of Business Venturing and is on the editorial boards for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Resource Management.

Affiliations

• Nestle Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Tennessee

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Motivation/Mindset
• Passion
• Teams

Featured Research

• Mmbaga, N.A., Mathias, B., Williams, D., and Cardon, M. (2020). A review of and future agenda for research on identity in entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 35, 106049.
• Mol, E., Cardon, M., Jong, B., Khapova, S.N., and Elfring, T. (2020). Entrepreneurial passion diversity in new venture teams: An empirical examination of short- and long-term performance implications. Journal of Business Venturing, 35, 105965.
• Cardon, M., Glauser, M., and Murnieks, C.Y. (2017). Passion for what? Expanding the domains of entrepreneurial passion☆. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 8, 24-32.
• Murnieks, C.Y., Cardon, M., Sudek, R., White, T., and Brooks, W.T. (2016). Drawn to the fire: The role of passion, tenacity and inspirational leadership in angel investing. Journal of Business Venturing, 31, 468-484.
• Cardon, M., Post, C., and Forster, W.R. (2017). Team Entrepreneurial Passion: Its Emergence and Influence in New Venture Teams. Academy of Management Review, 42, 283-305.

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Michael Conger is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, OH. His research and teaching focus on how entrepreneurial action can contribute to solving social and environmental problems and the ways in which social enterprises are changing the role of business and organizations in society.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Miami University

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Hybridity
• Prosocial Enterprise

Featured Research

• Smith, Brett, Michael Conger, Jeffery S. McMullen, Mitchell Neubert. 2019. “Why Believe? The Promise of Research on the Role of Religion in Entrepreneurship." Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11:e00119.
• Gras, David, Michael Conger, Anna Jenkins, Michael Gras. 2020. Wicked Problems, Reductive Tendency, and the Formation of (non)Opportunity Beliefs. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(3).
• Conger, M., McMullen, J. S., Bergman, B. J., and York, J. G. 2018. Category Membership, Identity Control, and the Reevaluation of Prosocial Opportunities. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2): 179–206.
• Dinger, J., Conger, M., Hekman, D., and Bustamante, C. 2019. Somebody That I Used to Know: The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Social Identity in Post-disaster Business Communities. Journal of Business Ethics. 166, 115-141.

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Dawn DeTienne is a professor of strategy at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial exits, family business, and gender. She is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Affiliations

• Professor of Strategy at Colorado State University

Faith-Related Topics

• Entrepreneurial Exits
• Motivation/Mindset
• Decision-Making

Featured Research

• Justo, R., DeTienne, D.R., Sieger, P. 2015. Failure or voluntary exit? Re-assessing the female underperformance hypothesis, Journal of Business Venturing, 30(6): 775–792.
• Chandler, G., DeTienne, D.R., McKelvie, A., Mumford, T. 2011. Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study. Journal of Business Venturing, 26(3): 375-390.
• DeTienne, D.R., Shepherd, D.A., DeCastro, J. 2008. The fallacy of “only the strong survive": The effects of extrinsic motivation on the persistence decisions for underperforming firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 23(5): 528-546.

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Bruno Dyck is a professor of management at the University of Manitoba. He teaches courses on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and management and organization theory.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Manitoba

Faith-Related Topics

• Leadership/Management
• Virtue/Ethics
• Management Theory

Featured Research

• Bell, G.G., and B. Dyck (2012). “Conventional resource-based theory and its radical alternative: A less materialist-individualist approach to strategy." Journal of Business Ethics, 99(1): 121-130.
• Lawrence, T.B., M.K. Mauws, B. Dyck, and R.F. Kleysen (2005). “The politics of organizational learning: Integrating power into the 4I framework." Academy of Management Review, 30 (1): 180-191.
• Dyck, B., and R. Kleysen (2001). “Aristotle’s virtues and management thought: An empirical exploration of an integrative pedagogy." Business Ethics Quarterly, 11 (4): 561-574.
• Dyck, B. (2013). Management and the Gospel: Luke’s Radical Message for the First and Twenty- First Centuries. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

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Ali Aslan Gümüsay is the head of research group innovation, entrepreneurship, and society at the University of Hamburg. His work focuses on societal organization surrounding questions about how values and meaning shape organizations, how new forms of organizing impact society, and how to engage with both meaningful scholarship and society.

Affiliations

• Head of Research, Entrepreneurship, and Society at the University of Hamburg

Faith-Related Topics

• Organization Theory
• Faith Diversity
• Business Ethics
• Integrating Faith and Work

Featured Research

• Gümüşay, A.A., 2015. Entrepreneurship from an Islamic Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics. 130:1, pp. 199-208.
• Gümüşay, A. A., Smets, M., and Morris, T. 2020. ‘God at Work’: Engaging central and incompatible institutional logics through elastic hybridity. Academy of Management Journal. 63:1, pp. 124-154.
• Gümüsay, A. A. 2019. Embracing religions in moral theories of leadership. Academy of Management Perspectives. 33:3, pp. 292-306.

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Elaine Hollensbe is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Cincinnati. She is a former Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal and is currently on the editorial board for the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her research is qualitative and focuses on identity, organizational identification, and work-home balance.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Cincinnati

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Ethics
• Entrepreneurial Teams

Featured Research

• Kreiner, G., Hollensbe, E., Sheep, M., Smith, B., Kataria, N. (2015). The dialectic tensions of identity elasticity: How can we hold together while we’re pulling apart? . Academy of Management Journal, 981-1011.
• Hollensbe, E., Wookey, C., Hickey, L., George, G., Nichols, V. (2014). Organizations with purpose. Academy of Management Journal, 1227-1234.
• Kreiner, G., Hollensbe, E., Sheep, M. (2006). Where is the ‘me’ among the ‘we’?: Identity work in a greedy occupation. Academy of Management Journal, 1031-1057.

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Jessica Jones is an assistant professor of management at the University of Tennessee. Her focus is on new venture opportunities, especially in resource-limited contexts, and how these ventures relate to societal outcomes, namely through social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She has taught entrepreneurship and strategic management, as well as worked for a social enterprise in Latin America.

Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Tennessee

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Impact Investing
• Integrating Faith and Work

Featured Research

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Benyamin Lichtenstein is an associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts. His research focuses on small business entrepreneurship, sustainability, clean-tech, and organizational change and leadership.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor in Management at the University of Massachusetts

Faith-Related Topics

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Organization Theory
• Diverse Faith Perspective

Featured Research

• Lichtenstein, B., Carter, N., Dooley, K., Gartner, B. (2007) Complexity Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 22: 236-261.
• Lichtenstein, B., Smith, B., Torbert, W. (1994) Leadership and Ethical Development: Balancing Light and Shadow. Business Ethics Quarterly, 5(1): 99-106.

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Jeff McMullen is a professor entrepreneurship and the David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship at Indiana University. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Business Venturing, as well as former Editor-in-Chief of Business Horizons. His teaching focus lies in strategic entrepreneurship, new ventures, social entrepreneurship, research methods, business models, and strategic management at the undergraduate, MBA, and Doctoral levels.

Affiliations

• David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship at Indiana University

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Passion
• Entrepreneurial Action

Featured Research

• McMullen, J.S., and Shepherd, D.A. (2006). Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur. Academy of Management Review, 31(1), 132-152.
• Miller, T., Grimes, M., McMullen, J.S., and Vogus, T. (2012). Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 37(4), 616-640.
• Conger, M., McMullen, J. S., Bergman, Jr., B. J., and York, J. (2018). Category membership, identity control, and the reevaluation of prosocial opportunities. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2), 179-206.
• Smith, Brett, Michael Conger, Jeffery S. McMullen, Mitchell Neubert. 2019. “Why Believe? The Promise of Research on the Role of Religion in Entrepreneurship." Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11:e00119

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Kent Miller is a professor of management at Michigan State University. His research and teaching focuses on organizational learning and strategic change through empirical, theoretical, and modeling work. He serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning and Education, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Ogranization.

Affiliations

• Professor of Management at Michigan State University

Faith-Related Topics

• Risk
• Inter-personal Dynamics
• Strategy
• Organizational Management

Featured Research

• Miller, K. D. (2015). Organizational Research as Practical Theology. Organizational Research Methods, 18: 276-299.
• Miller, K. D. (2019). Responding to Fundamentalism: Secularism or Humble Faith? Academy of Management Perspectives, 33(3): 307-322.
• Miller, K. D. 2002. “Competitive Strategies of Religious Organizations." Strategic Management Journal, 23(5): 435-456.
• Miller, K. D. (2017). Interfaith Dialogue in a Secular Field. Management Research Review, 40: 824-844.
• Miller, K. D. 2006. “A Case for Including Religious Organizations in Management Research." Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 3(3): 214-230.

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Charles Murnieks is an associate professor and associate chair of strategic management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research focuses on passion, cognition, motivation, and investing in new ventures. He serves on the board of two entrepreneurship journals and is an Associate Editor at Journal of Business Venturing.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Strategic Management at the University of Missouri Kansas City

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Motivation/Mindset
• Passion
• Decision-Making

Featured Research

• Murnieks, C.Y., Cardon, M., Sudek, R., White, T., and Brooks, W.T. (2016). Drawn to the fire: The role of passion, tenacity and inspirational leadership in angel investing. Journal of Business Venturing, 31, 468-484.
• Warnick, B.J., Murnieks, C.Y., McMullen, J.S., and Brooks, W.T. (2018). Passion for entrepreneurship or passion for the product? A conjoint analysis of angel and VC decision-making. Journal of Business Venturing, 33, 315-332.
• Murnieks, C.Y., Cardon, M., and Haynie, J. (2020). Fueling the fire: Examining identity centrality, affective interpersonal commitment and gender as drivers of entrepreneurial passion. Journal of Business Venturing, 35, 105909.

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Mitchell Neubert is the Chavanee Chair of Christian Ethics in Business and the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Baylor University. His work focuses on leadership, Christian values in business, and the integration of faith and entrepreneurship.

Affiliations

• Chavanee Chair of Christian Ethics in Business and the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Baylor University

Faith-Related Topics

• Leadership
• Ethics
• Integrating Faith and Work

Featured Research

• Smith, Brett, Michael Conger, Jeffery S. McMullen, Mitchell Neubert. 2019. “Why Believe? The Promise of Research on the Role of Religion in Entrepreneurship." Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11:e00119.
• Ewest, T., Neubert, M. "Development of The Integration Profile (TIP) Faith and Work Integration Scale," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 159, No. 2, (December 2017), pp. 455-471.
• Neubert, M., Halbesleben, K. "Called to Commitment: An Examination of Relationships Between Spiritual Calling, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment," Journal of Business Ethics, (September 2014).

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K. Praveen Parboteeah is a professor and the Director of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. His teaching focus is on business policy and strategy, business ethics, international management, and the scientific method in business. He is also a senior editor at the Journal of Business Ethics.

Affiliations

• Professor, Director of Doctorate of Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Faith-Related Topics

• Ethics
• Religion
• Integrating Faith and Work

Featured Research

• Parboteeah, K.P., Hoegl, M. and Cullen, J.B. 2008. Ethics and religion: An empirical test of a multidimensional model. Journal of Business Ethics, 80, 2, 387-398. 23.
• Parboteeah, K.P., Walter, S.G., and Block, J. (2015). When Does Christian Religion Matter for Entrepreneurial Activity? The Contingent Effect of a Country’s Investments into Knowledge. Journal of Business Ethics, 130, 447-465.
• Parboteeeah, K.P, Walter, S., Block, J. 2015. When faith meets innovation: Religion, entrepreneurial opportunities, and entrepreneurial activity. Journal of Business Ethics, 130, 447-465. 44 – JBE
• Parboteeah, K.P., Paik, Y., and Cullen, J.B. 2009. Religious denominations and work values: A focus on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. International Journal of Cross-cultural Management, 9, 1, 51-67. 28.

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Kathryn Pavlovich is a professor of strategic management at the University of Waikato. Co-Chair of the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management, her focuses include organizational motivation, self-leadership, spirituality and mindfulness.

Affiliations

• Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Waikato

Faith-Related Topics

• Diverse Faith Perspective
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Ethics

Featured Research

• Sidek, F., Pavlovich, K., and Gibb, J. (2018). Entrepreneurship as worship: A Malay Muslim perspective. Journal of Management and Organization, 24(5), 698-710. doi:10.1017/jmo.2018.13
• Sidek, F., Pavlovich, K., and Gibb, J. (2015). An Islamic perspective on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 25(4), 395-413. doi:10.1504/IJESB.2015.070215
• Tackney, C. T., Chappell, S., Harris, D., Pavlovich, K., Egel, E., Major, R., . . . Stoner, J. (2017). Management, Spirituality, and Religion (MSR) ways and means: a paper to encourage quality research. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 14(3), 245-254. doi:10.1080/14766086.2017.1316764.

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Jared Peifer is an assistant professor of management at Baruch College, CUNY. His focus is socially responsible investing, including the moral motivations behind individuals’ economic activities including: charitable giving, environmental consumption, voluntary simplicity, and commercialization of scientific research.

Affiliations

• Assistant Professor of Management at Baruch College, CUNY

Faith-Related Topics

• Science and Religion
• Comparative Studies
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Ethics

Featured Research

• Peifer, Jared L., David R. Johnson and Elaine Howard Ecklund. Forthcoming. “The Moral Limits of the Market: Science Commercialization and Religious Traditions." Journal of Business Ethics.
• Peifer, Jared L. 2015. “The Inter-Institutional Interface of Religion and Business" Business Ethics Quarterly 25(3): 363 – 391.
• Peifer, Jared L. 2011. “Morality in the Financial Market? A Look at Religiously Affiliated Mutual Funds in the USA" Socio-Economic Review 9(2): 235-259.
• Peifer, Jared L. 2014. “Fund Loyalty Among Socially Responsible Investors: The Importance of the Economic and Ethical Domains" Journal of Business Ethics 121(4): 635-649.

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Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University. His work focuses on mindfulness in organizations and how Buddhist psychology and social theory can inform social change, especially with regards to how integrating mindfulness with secular contexts may influence consumer capitalism. Purser is an ordained Zen Dharma Teacher in the Korean Zen Taego order of Buddhism.

Affiliations

• Professor of Management at San Francisco State University

Faith-Related Topics

• Diverse Faith Perspective
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith and Work

Featured Research

• Dyck, B. and Purser, R. (2019). Faith, theoria and OMT: A Christian and a Buddhist walk into a business school… Academy of Management Perspectives. August
• Purser, R., Ng, E., and Walsh, Z. (2018). The promise and peril of corporate mindfulness. In C. Mabley and D. Knights (Eds.), Leadership Matters: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century. London: Routledge.
• Purser, R., and Milillo, J. (2015). Mindfulness revisited: A Buddhist-based conceptualization. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(1), 3-24.

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Devin Singh is an associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College. In addition to being a successful author, he was the editor for a Journal of Religious Ethics special issue on Debt. His research focuses on Christian tradition nad its interaction with economy and politics, as well as sociology of markets and money. He has received funding from the Lilly Endowment and Luce Foundation, and has national and international recognition for his work.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College

Faith-Related Topics

• Ethics
• Motivation/Mindset
• Financial Management

Featured Research

• Economy and Modern Christian Thought: Approaches, Challenges, and Trajectories. Brill Research Perspectives. Leiden: Brill, under contract.
• Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West. Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.
• “SovereignDebt."JournalofReligiousEthics46:2(2018):239-266.

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Brett Smith is a professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University. He is also the Founding Director of the LIFE Research Lab and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Miami. He serves on the editorial board for Journal of Business Venturing and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Additionally, he is an advisory board member for Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub and on the Board of Directors for OCEAN Programs, a faith-based technology accelerator.

Affiliations

• Cintas Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, Founding Director of the Leading the Integration of Faith and Entrepreneurship Research Lab, Founding Director of the Center of Social Entrepreneurship, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Miami University

Faith-Related Topics

• Identity
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Scaling Social impact

Featured Research

• Smith, Brett, Michael Conger, Jeffery S. McMullen, Mitchell Neubert. 2019. “Why Believe? The Promise of Research on the Role of Religion in Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 11:e00119.
• Kreiner, G. E., Hollensbe, E., Sheep, M. L., Smith, B. R., and Kataria, N. (2015). Elasticity and the dialectic tensions of organizational identity: How can we hold together while we are pulling apart?. Academy of Management Journal, 58(4), 981-1011.
• Smith, B., Kistruck, G. and Cannatelli, B. (2016). The impact of moral intensity and desire for control on scaling decisions in social entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Ethics, 133: 677-689.

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David Townsend is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His research and teaching interests focus on capital acquisition, growth strategies, organizational development and decision-making.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Virginia Tech University

Faith-Related Topics

• Decision-Making
• New Ventures

Featured Research

• Townsend, D.M. and Busenitz, L.W. 2014. Turning water into wine? Exploring the role of dynamic capabilities in early-stage capitalization processes. Journal of Business Venturing, In Press.
• Townsend, D.M., Mitchell, J.R., Busenitz, L.W., and Mitchell, R.K. 2014. The eclipse and new dawn of individual differences research. Routledge Companion on Entrepreneurship, (Frederike Welter and Ted Baker, eds.), In Press.

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Brandon Vaidyanathan is an associate professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in Business Administration and Ph.D. in Sociology. His work focuses on the cultural dimensions of religious, commercial, medical, and scientific institutions.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of America

Faith-Related Topics

• Diverse Faith Perspective
• Religion and Finance
• Sociology

Featured Research

• Offutt, Steven, LiErin Probasco, and Brandon Vaidyanathan. 2016. “Religion, Poverty and Development." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55(2):207-215.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon, David Johnson, Pamela Prickett, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Rejecting the Conflict Narrative: American Jewish and Muslim Views on Science and Religion." Social Compass 63(4):478-496.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon. 2018. “How minority religion can shape corporate capitalism: An emergentist account and empirical illustration." Business and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650318775104

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Roy Suddaby holds positions as a professor of management at the University of Victoria, Washington State University, Liverpool University Management School, Ritsumeikan University, and IAE Business School. He is a former editor of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Business Venturing. His work focuses on the critical role of symbolic resources (legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history) in organizational development.

Affiliations

• Professor of Management at University of Victoria

Faith-Related Topics

• Organizational Change
• Professions and Professional Firms
• Corporate Governance
• Business and Society
• Technology and Work

Featured Research

• Elangovan, A. R. (Elango), and Suddaby, R. (2020). Solomons for our Times: Wisdom in Decision Making in Organizations. Organizational Dynamics, 49: 1-9.
• Ganzin, M., Islam, G. and Suddaby, R. (2019). Spirituality and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Magical Thinking in Future-Oriented Sensemaking" 2019. Organization Studies, Forthcoming.
• Suddaby, R., Ganzin, M., and Minkus, A. (2018). Craft, Magic and the Re-enchantment of the World. European Management Journal, 35(3), 285–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.03.009
• Harvey, C., Maclean, M., and Suddaby, R. (2019). Historical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy. Business History Review.

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Tom Lumpkin is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma. He is the Co-Editor of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and serves on the editorial boards of several other international journals. His work focuses on entrepreneurial orientation, social entrepreneurship, and family business.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma

Faith-Related Topics

• Strategy
• Motivation/Mindset
• New Ventures
• Social Entrepreneurship

Featured Research

• Lumpkin, G. T., and Dess, G. G. (1996). Clarifying the entrepreneurial orientation construct and linking it to performance. Academy of management Review, 21(1), 135-172.
• Lumpkin, G. T., and Dess, G. G. (2001). Linking two dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation to firm performance: The moderating role of environment and industry life cycle. Journal of business venturing, 16(5), 429-451.

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Denise Daniels is a professor of entrepreneurship at Wheaton College. Her focus is on how entrepreneurs understand their faith in the workplace, leadership development, and the connection between Christian faith and innovation. She has received a $1.5 million grant from the Lilly Foundation to study faith in the workplace and was the producer of the documentary series Faith and Co., which explores connections between faith and work.

Affiliations

• Professor of Entrepreneurship at Wheaton College

Faith-Related Topics

• Organizational Behavior
• Motivation/Mindset
• Integrating Faith And Work
• Ethics

Featured Research

• Daniels, D., Diddams, M., and Duzer, J.V. (2011). A Magnetic Pull on the Internal Compass: The Moderating Effect of Response to Culture on the Relationship Between Moral Identity and Ethical Sensitivity.
• Duzer, J.V., Franz, R.S., Karns, G.L., Wong, K., and Daniels, D. (2006). It's Not Your Business: A Christian Reflection on Stewardship and Business. Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, 3, 348 - 374.
• Ecklund, E.H., Daniels, D. and Carroll, D. (2019). Religious Discrimination in the Workplace: The Role of Religious Tradition. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.
• Ecklund, E.H., Daniels, D. and Schneider, R. (2019). Faith at Work: Applying Empirical Research to Church Life. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.

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Scott Newbert is a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Baruch College-CUNY. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship, design, strategy, and business ethics. His research interests include value creation for firms and socioeconomic impacts of entrepreneurial activity. He is also a field editor for Journal of Business Venturing.

Affiliations

• Lawrence N. Field Chair in Entrepreneurship, Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Baruch College-CUNY

Faith-Related Topics

• Business Ethics
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Strategy
• Social Entrepreneurship

Featured Research

• Rawhouser H, Cummings M, Newbert SL. 2019. Social impact measurement: Current approaches and future directions for social entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(1): 82-115.
• Newbert SL. 2018. Achieving social and economic equality by unifying business and ethics: Adam Smith as the cause of and cure for the separation thesis. Journal of Management Studies special issue on social and economic inequality, 55(3): 517-544.

Bio

Jonathan Arthurs is professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Oregon State University. He is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty in the Oregon State University College of Business. He also serves as a Field Editor at the Journal of Business Venturing and on the editorial review boards for Entrepreneurship Theory andPractice, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights.

Affiliations

• Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Oregon State University

Faith-Related Topics

• New Ventures
• Governance

Featured Research

• G. Lee, Cho, S. Yul, Arthurs, J., and Lee, E. Kyung, “Celebrity CEO, Identity Threat, and Impression Management: Impact of Celebrity Status on Corporate Social Responsibility", Journal of Business Research, vol. 111, pp. 69-84, 2020.

Bio

Jeffrey Hornsby is the Department Chair of the Global Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the Director of the Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Hornsby is currently on the board of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers and recently served as Senior Vice President of Programming (Anaheim USASBE Conference), Co-Program-chair, and a member of the Executive Board of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Affiliations

• Department Chair, Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

Faith-Related Topics

• Human Resource Issues
• Organizational and Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Organizational Behavior

Featured Research

• Fisher, G., Kuratko, D.F., Bloodgood, J.M., andHornsby, J.S. (2017). Legitimate to whom? The challenge of audience diversity and new venture legitimacy. Journal of Business Venturing, 32, 52-71.
• Kuratko, D.F., Hornsby, J.S., andMcMullen, J.S. (2011). CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH A PURPOSE: EXPLORING THE ANTECEDENTS TO SOCIAL BUSINESS.

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Phillip Kim is a professor of social innovation and entrepreneurship at the Babson College. His research interests include start-up processes and founding teams, institutions and entrepreneurship, cross-national differences in entrepreneurship, technology entrepreneurship, and innovation narratives.

Affiliations

• Lewis Family Distinguished Professor in Social Innovation at Babson College

Faith-Related Topics

• Teams
• Comparative Study
• Institutional Entrpreneurship

Featured Research

• Bradley, S.W., Kim, P.H., Klein, P.G., McMullen, J.S., Wennberg, K. (in press). Policy for Innovative Entrepreneurship: Institutions, Interventions, and Societal Challenges. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Bio

Scott Newbert is the Lawrence N. Field Chair in Entrepreneurship and the Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, City University of New York. He serves as a field editor for the Journal of Business Venturing.

Affiliations

• Chair in Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, CUNY

Faith-Related Topics

• Entrepreneurial Networks
• Strategic Management
• Business Ethics

Featured Research

• Rawhouser H, Cummings M, Newbert SL. 2019. Social impact measurement: Current approaches and future directions for social entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(1): 82-115.
• Newbert SL. 2018. Achieving social and economic equality by unifying business and ethics: Adam Smith as the cause of and cure for the separation thesis. Journal of Management Studies special issue on social and economic inequality, 55(3): 517-544.

Bio

Roy Suddaby is the Winspear Chair of Management at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada. He also is a Professor of Management at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University, USA and Liverpool University Management School, UK, an adjunct Professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan and IAE Business School, Argentina. He was a past editor of the Academy of Management Review and is or has been an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and the Journal of Business Venturing.

Affiliations

• Chair, Professor of Management at the University of Victoria

Faith-Related Topics

• Organizational Change and Theory
• Corporate Governance
• Business and Society

Featured Research

• Suddaby, R. (2019). Spiritual Myths of Consumption: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and the Consubstantiation of the American Consumer. Journal of Marketing Management, 35(5-6), 410–426. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2019.1585686
• Suddaby, R., Ganzin, M., andMinkus, A. (2018). Craft, Magic and the Re-enchantment of the World. European Management Journal, 35(3), 285–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2017.03.009

Bio

Peter Klein is a Professor and Department Chair for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University. His research focuses on the links between entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization, with application to innovation, diversification, vertical coordination, health care, and public policy. He is Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Perspectives.

Affiliations

• Professor and Department Chair for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University

Faith-Related Topics

• Strategy
• Organization
• Innovation

Featured Research

• "Socio-cognitive traits and entrepreneurship: The moderating role of economic institutions," Journal of Business Venturing, (August 2018) (coauthors: Boris Nikolaev, Christopher Boudreaux).
• "Organizational Governance Adaptation: Who Is In, Who Is Out, and Who Gets What," Academy of Management Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, (January 2019), pp. 6-27 (coauthors: Joseph T Mahoney, Anita M McGahan, Christos Pitelis).

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Yolanda Sarason is an associate professor of entrepreneurship and strategic management at Colorado State University. Her research area focuses on social and sustainable entrepreneurship and the development of theoretical perspectives in entrepreneurship and strategic management. Her current research stream involves investigating the consequences of the sale of social mission driven companies to multinational corporations.

Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at Colorado State University

Faith-Related Topics

• Social Entrepreneurship
• Mission-Driven Companies

Featured Research

• Sarason, Y., Dean, T. and Dillard, J. (2006). “Entrepreneurship as the nexus of individual and opportunity: A structuration perspective”. Journal of Business Venturing. New York, NY: Elsevier Science Publishing Co, 21, Pg 286-305.

Bio

Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, a professor of Sociology, and the Founding Director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University. Her research explores how individuals and small groups bring changes to larger institutions that constrain them. Substantively, her work explores this topic in relationship to religion, science, gender, race and immigration in different national contexts. She has received research grants from the Templeton Religion Trust, Lily Endowment, National Science Foundation, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, among others. Ecklund previously served as chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on the Sociology of Religion and as president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Affiliations

• Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University

Faith-Related Topics

• Science and Religion
• Comparative Studies
• Integrating Faith and Work
• Institutional Development

Featured Research

• Ecklund, E.H., Daniels, D. & Carroll, D. (2019). Religious Discrimination in the Workplace: The Role of Religious Tradition. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.
• Ecklund, E.H., Daniels, D. & Schneider, R. (2019). Faith at Work: Applying Empirical Research to Church Life. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 23-26, San Diego, CA.
• Peifer, Jared L., David R. Johnson and Elaine Howard Ecklund. Forthcoming. “The Moral Limits of the Market: Science Commercialization and Religious Traditions.” Journal of Business Ethics.
• Vaidyanathan, Brandon, David Johnson, Pamela Prickett, and Elaine Howard Ecklund. 2016. “Rejecting the Conflict Narrative: American Jewish and Muslim Views on Science and Religion.” Social Compass 63(4):478-496.