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Grid The Entrepreneur
Alana Pierce
HEC Montréal, Canada*Award Winner - Kauffman Foundation Award for Best Research Translation*
Research Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Entrepreneurs receive a lot of advice but its not always relevant and entrepreneurs do not always take it in. Instead of thinking of advice as something to take or leave, making advice, or co-producing advice through specific interactional moves can make advice more relevant and impactful.
Michael Araki
University of Louisville, KY, United StatesResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Polymathic orientation empowers entrepreneurs to create unique, high-value ideas and challenge conventional wisdom by drawing on knowledge that diverges from others in the domain.
Fardeen Dodo
University of Bologna, ItalyResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Entrepreneurship does not always do good. And, the good and bad of entrepreneurial behaviour may not be best seen as a two-sided coin, given that each form of behaviour may a 'life' of its own.
Sean Dwyer
Baylor University, TX, United StatesResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Impulsive or perfectionistic? While these business practices can help business venture survival early on, they can become barriers to selling your business if left unchecked.
Diana Garcia Quevedo
ESCP Business School, FranceResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Understanding the implications of gender and adapting online posting wisely can help women eco-entrepreneurs navigate gender norms and stereotypes. They can create a positive impact in their venture while challenging gender norms in entrepreneurship.
Basel Hammoda
Tallinn University of Technology, EstoniaResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Entrepreneurship is often understood to be synonymous to creativity and innovation. This semantic interpretation or rather misinterpretation can lead new entrepreneurs into the trap of trying to come up with “one hell of a business idea” that makes them live happily ever after. This fondness with their idea might be a fast track to a destined failure though.
Nathaniel Hill
University of South Carolina, United StatesResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: While development research and practitioners have focused on factors that limit the capabilities of potential entrepreneurs, they have too often neglected the factors that make entrepreneurship undesirable even when feasible. The result is that those most capable and well-resourced in sub-Saharan Africa (the educated middle and upper class), are less likely to start a business as it is seen as an undesirable choice.
Laurine Keller
Technical University of Denmark, DenmarkResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Organizations unknowingly lose employees by silent quitting and exodus into entrepreneurship - A guide for organizations to retain high-potential employees.
Julia Mokhtar
Ghent University, BelgiumResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Academic spin-offs are relevant to transform technologies from the university into commercialized products. However, academic entrepreneurs often do not possess the managerial know-how and thus need to seek support from their environment to improve their performance.
Yi Zhang
Oklahoma State University, OK, United StatesResearch Translation Paper (pdf) »
Summary: Entrepreneurs aim to change the world and make life better, yet they often face a dilemma between their ambition and family life. This study is to show that family life is not conflicted with entrepreneurs’ ambition but instead is a pathway to entrepreneurs’ self-realization.