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Field of Dreams: Exploration of Entrepreneurial Possibilities

For several decades, entrepreneurship scholarship has been fixated on understanding the “the processes of discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities” (Shane & Venkataraman, Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Michael Lounsbury and Tim Hannigan

Measuring Your Social Impact: What the Research Says

Consumers, policymakers and society at large are caring more and more about businesses' commitment to loftier causes than just making money, such as social justice, the environment, and the welfare Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Hans Rawhouser , Michael Cummings and Scott Newbert

Employees Who Earn Less Than Their Peers Are More Likely to Become Hybrid Entrepreneurs

Many aspiring entrepreneurs test the waters by engaging in “hybrid entrepreneurship,” in which they start a new business while holding on to a fulltime job. In contrast, others enter into Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Haemin Dennis Park

Startup Employees Take a Hit Financially

People choose jobs for many reasons: location, learning opportunities, coworkers, and corporate culture. But pay also matters for most: not just what a job offers initially but also what it might Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: M. Diane Burton , Rodrigo Canales , Michael S. Dahl and Olav Sorenson

Community Organizations Offer Resources for Entrepreneurs

  Community organizations are an important – and somewhat overlooked – locus of entrepreneurship training. Many non-profit organizations that help communities across the United States and Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Maija Renko

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl