Special Topics: Entrepreneurship

Hébert, Robert F. & Albert N. Link. 1989. In Search of the Meaning of Entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 1 (1): 39– 49.

Gartner, William B. 1990. What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Entrepreneurship? Journal of Business Venturing 1 Sept 14 5 (1): 15–28.

Sorenson, O., & Toby E. Stuart, T. 2008. Entrepreneurship: A Field of Dreams? Academy of Management Annals 2 (1): 517–543.

Wood, M. S., & Fisher, G. 2022. A collective-evolutionary alternative for appraising entrepreneurship theory. Strategic Organization, 21(2), 416-428.

Dencker, J., Bacq, S., Gruber, M., and Haas, M. 2019. Reconceptualizing Necessity Entrepreneurship: A Contextualized Framework of Entrepreneurial Processes 2 Sept 21 Under the Condition of Basic Needs. Academy of Management Review.

Ge, J., Li, J. M., Zhao, E. Y., & Yang, F. 2022. Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 37(5), 106248.

Fisher, G. 2012. Effectuation, causation, and bricolage: A behavioral comparison of emerging theories in entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 36(5), 1019- 1051 Shepherd, D.A., Williams, T.A., Patzelt, H. 2015. Thinking about

Qin, X., Shepherd, D., Lin, D., Xie, S., Liang, X., & Lin, S. 2020. The Dark Side of Entrepreneurs’ Creativity: Investigating How and When Entrepreneurs’ Creativity Increases the Favorability of Potential Opportunities That Harm Nature. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Toivonen, D. T., Idoko, D. O., Jha, D. H. K., & Harvey, D. S. 2023. Creative Jolts: Exploring How Entrepreneurs Let Go of Ideas During Creative Revision. Academy of Management Journal

Fauchart, E., & Gruber, M. 2011. Darwinians, communitarians, and missionaries: The role of founder identity in entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 54(5): 935-957.

Ahl, H., & Marlow, S. 2021. Exploring the false promise of entrepreneurship through a postfeminist critique of the enterprise policy discourse in Sweden and the UK. Human Relations, 74(1), 41-68. 4 Oct 5

Arshed, N., Martin, G., & Knox, S. 2022. Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,

Vongswasdi, P., de Groote, J., Heinrich, J., & Ladge, J. 2025. Beyond the prototype: Unpacking the intersectional identity and image work of female minority founders in a startup context. Journal of Applied Psychology, 110(5), 697–722.

Cogan, A. & Mathias, B. 2026. Not me, not yet, not anymore: Founder identity and entrepreneurial disidentification, Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 41, Issue 4.

Alvarez, S. A., & Barney, J. B. 2007. Discovery and creation: Alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(1‐2), 11-26.

McMullen, J., & Shepherd, D. 2011. Entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in the theory of the entrepreneur. Academy of Management Review 31 (1), 132-152. 5 Oct 12 Gregoire, D.A. & Shepherd, D.A. 2012. Technology-market combinations and the identification of entrepreneurial

Bell, R., & Bell, H. (2023). Entrepreneurship education in the era of generative artificial intelligence. Entrepreneurship Education, 6, 229–244

Hargadon, A. B., & Douglas, Y. 2001. When innovations meet institutions: Edison and the design of the electric light. Administrative science quarterly, 46(3), 476-501. Baker, T & Nelson, R. 2005. Creating something from nothing: Resource construction through entrepreneurial bricolage.

Arikan, A., Arikan, I., & Koparan, I. 2020. Creation Opportunities: Entrepreneurial Curiosity, Generative Cognition, and Knightian Uncertainty. Academy of Management Review.

Thorgren, S., & Williams, T. A. 2023. Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring. Journal of Business Venturing, 38(3)

McMullen, J. S., Fitzsimmons, J. R., Shetty, K., & Ramoglou, S. (2024). "A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action." Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1).

Ramoglou, S., & McMullen, J. S. (2024). "'What Is an Opportunity?': From Theoretical Mystification to Everyday Understanding." Academy of Management Review (in press as of citation, DOI: 10.5465/amr.2020.0335)

Ramoglou, S., Liang Shang, L., Chandra, Y. & Jeffery S. McMullen, J.S. 2026. Are language models intelligent enough for entrepreneurial work? A language-centered perspective, Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 41, Issue 3.

Peredo, A. M., & Chrisman, J. J. 2006. Toward a theory of community-based enterprise. Academy of Management 7 Oct. 26 Review, 31(2), 309-328.

Dutt, N., Hawn, O., Vidal, E., Chatterji, A., McGahan, A., & Mitchell, W. 2016. How open system intermediaries address institutional failures: The case of business incubators in emerging-market countries. Academy of Management Journal, 59(3), 818-840.

Honig, B. 2019. Exploring the intersection of transnational, ethnic, and migration entrepreneurship. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 46 (10): 1974-1990.

Wurth, B., Stam, E., & Spigel, B. 2021. Toward an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Program. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(3), 729-778.

Zott, C. & Huy, Q.N. 2007. How entrepreneurs use symbolic management to acquire resources. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52: 70-105. Clough, D.R. et al. 2019. Turning Lead into Gold: How do entrepreneurs mobilize resources to exploit opportunities?

Murray, A., Kotha, S. & Fisher, G. 2020. Community-Based Resource Mobilization: How Entrepreneurs Acquire Resources from Distributed Non-Professionals via 8 Nov 2 Crowdfunding. Organization Science, 31(4), 960–989.

Logue, D., & Grimes, M. 2022. Living up to the hype: How new ventures manage the resource and liability of future- orientated visions within the nascent market of impact investing Academy of Management Journal, 65(3): 1055- 1082.

Stam, W., Arzlanian, S., & Elfring, T. 2013. Social capital of entrepreneurs and small firm performance: A meta-analysis of contextual and methodological moderators. Journal of Business Venturing. Soublière, J.-F., & Gehman, J. 2020. The Legitimacy Threshold

Katila, R., Piezunka, H., Reineke, P., & Eisenhardt, K. M. 2022. Big Fish versus Big Pond? Entrepreneurs, Established Firms, and Antecedents of Tie Formation. Academy of Management Journal, 65(2): 427-452. Raghu Garud, Yuliya Snihur, Llewellyn D W Thomas, and Nelson

Rady, Townsend, Hunt & Simpson, 2025. The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups, Journal of Business Venturing, 40, 4.

Thébaud, S. 2015. Business as Plan B Institutional Foundations of Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship across 24 Industrialized Countries. Administrative Science Quarterly.

Pahnke, E. C., Katila, R., & Eisenhardt, K. M. 2015. Who takes you to the dance? How partners’ institutional logics influence innovation in young firms. Administrative Science Quarterly. Bolazni, D; Marabello, S., Honig, B. 2020. Exploring the multi-level processes of legitimacy in transnational social enterprises.

Foy, S., & Gruber, M. 2022. Identity-society (mis)alignment and the instrumentalization of firm creation: Creative destruction and creative reconstruction. Academy of Management Journal, 65(2): 479-515.

Zankl, J. & Grimes, M. 2024. Taming Unicorns: Toward a New Normal of Responsible Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management Review, 49.

Dacin, M. T., Dacin, P. A., & Tracey, P. 2011. Social entrepreneurship: A critique and future directions. Organization science, 22(5), 1203-1213.

Ruebottom, T., 2013. The microstructures of rhetorical strategy in social entrepreneurship: Building legitimacy through heroes and villains. Journal of Business Venturing, 28(1), pp.98-116.

Battilana, J. & Lee, M. 2014. "Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing—Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises." 11 Nov 23 Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), 397–441. Koehne, F; Woodward, R; Honig, B. 2022. The potentials and perils

Bacq, S. et al., 2025. "The dark side of doing good: a guiding framework for advancing research on the negative outcomes of social entrepreneurship." Small Business Economics.

Calás, M. B., Smircich, L. & Bourne, K. A. 2009. Extending the boundaries: Reframing ‘entrepreneurship as social change’ through feminist perspectives. Academy of Management Review, 34: 511-532.

Gallagher, Bryan, and Selman, Mark. 2015. “Warrior Entrepreneur.” American Indian Quarterly 39(1): 73-94. Swanson, L.A., & Bruni-Bossio, V. (2019). A Righteous Undocumented Economy. Journal of Business Ethics, 160(1), 225–237.

Meyer, J., Bromley, P., Atkins, R., Ruebottom, T., Jennings, J. and Jennings, D., 2023. The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations. Journal of Management Inquiry.

Lu, C., Zhang, R. & Reay, T. 2026. Emancipatory entrepreneurship by a stigmatized social group, Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2026,

Low, M. B., & MacMillan, I. C. 1988. Entrepreneurship: Past research and future challenges. Journal of Management, 14(2), 139-161.

Bull, I., & Willard, G. E. 1993. Towards a theory of entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 8(3), 183-195.

Bruyat, C., & Julien, P. A. 2001. Defining the field of research in entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 16(2), 165-180.

Gartner, W. B. 2001. Is there an elephant in entrepreneurship? Blind assumptions in theory development. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 25(4), 27-39.

Shane, S. (2012). Reflections on the 2010 AMR decade award: delivering on the promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research. Academy of Management Review, 37(1), 10-20.

Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. 2000. The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research. Academy of Management Review 25 (1): 217–226.

Venkataraman, S. 1997. The Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurship Research. In Seminal Ideas for the Next Twenty-Five Years of Advances, 5–20. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Kirzner, I. 1997. Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approach. Journal of Economic Literature, 35: 60-85.

Zahra, S. & Dess, G.G. 2001. Entrepreneurship as a field of research: Encouraging dialogue and debate. Academy of Management Review, 26: 8-10.

Erikson, T. 2001. The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research: A few comments and some suggested extensions. Academy of Management Review, 26: 12-13.

Shane, S. & Venkataraman, S. 2001. Entrepreneurship as a field of research: A response to Zahra and Dess, Singh, and Erikson. Academy of Management Review, 26: 13-16.

Venkataraman, S., Sarasvathy, S.D., Dew, N. & Forster, W.R. 2012. Reflections on the 2010 AMR decade award: Whither the promise? Moving forward with entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial. Academy of Management Review 37(1): 21-33.

Wry, T., York, J. G., & Waldron, T. L. (2022). The purpose and potential of entrepreneurship research. Strategic Organization, 21(2), 429-446. Zahra & Wright. 2011. Entrepreneurship’s next act. Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(4): 67-83.

Chin, M. K., Zhang, S. X., Jahanshahi, A. A., & Nadkarni, S. 2021. Unpacking political ideology: CEO social and economic ideologies, strategic decision-making processes, and corporate entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 64(4): 1213-1235. Gartner, W.B. 1988. “Who is an entrepreneur?” Is the wrong question. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Summer, 47-67

Nikiforou, A., Dencker, J. & Gruber, M. "Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation." Strategic Management Journal 40.13 (2019): 2165-2190.