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2009 BEST PAPER ABSTRACTS.	effectuation	The article presents abstracts for what the publication deems to have been the best papers of 2009 including “Acquisitions of Industrial Units and the Evolution of Operational Performance Across the Firm,” “Alliances and Governance in Biotechnology: Firm-Level Effects on Performance,” and “Are Joint Ventures Positive Sum Games? Effects of Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Behavior.”	Academy of Management Proceedings	2009	PDF Download
A 2 × 2 Conceptual Foundation for Entrepreneurial Discovery Theory	Patrick J. Murphy	Theories about entrepreneurial discovery are important to entrepreneurship. However, the dominant conceptual foundation underlying such theories hinders their development. It assumes that opportunities form based on either deliberate search or serendipitous discovery. I examine this unidimensional logic and identify a gap in its informative content. Then, I reframe it into orthogonal dimensions. The multidimensional model not only describes the same cases as the unidimensional model but also describes what the unidimensional model cannot, including cases that are high or low on both dimensions. This extension yields a 2 × 2 conceptual foundation for entrepreneurial discovery theory that promotes the development and coordination of distinct theoretic streams.	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	2011	PDF Download
A bureaucrat’s journey from technocrat to entrepreneur through the creation of adhocracies	Duncan M Pelly, R	AbstractHow we understand entrepreneurship is a function of the stories we tell. This article uses insights from process theory to explore the ways in which an entrepreneur can employ a story to mobilize others to shed conflicting viewpoints to converge with the abstract. In this story, regulation as a reification of past procedures did not fully account for organizational realities of mailroom inspections conducted by the military post office, so an appeal to foundational values was adopted to alter the shared vision of future potentiality and overcome bureaucratic barriers through the creation of adhocracies. As a result of overcoming interorganizational boundaries, a technocrat became an entrepreneur by changing the view of stakeholders from a fixed audience to active co-authors during the spawning of adhocracies. The creation of adhocracies in this story is explored through an autoethnographic layered account, which is a storytelling approach that mirrors the co-construction of the narratives found within this paper?s vignettes. The understanding of entrepreneurship provided in this paper challenges commonly held assumptions of entrepreneurship, in addition to corporate, organizational and public service entrepreneurship, as well as the methods and writing styles to explore these concepts.	Entrepreneurship & Regional Development	2016	link to abstract
A conceptual framework for entrepreneurship education policy: Meeting government and economic purposes	Dr Allan O'Connor	There is an increasing tendency for government policy to promote entrepreneurship for its apparent economic benefit. Accordingly, governments seek to employ entrepreneurship education as a means to stimulate increased levels of economic activity. However, the economic benefit of entrepreneurship education has proven difficult to substantiate. It is perceived that the problem is partly due to the multi-definitional perspectives of entrepreneurship. What stems from this is a lack of a theoretically sound conceptual grounding that will assist policy-makers and educators to locate a program within specific objectives. This article sets out an argument, extending from economic theory, to provide purpose for entrepreneurship education and proposes a policy framework supported by analysis of the Australian government policy context.	Journal of Business Venturing	2013	PDF Download
A CONSTRUCTIVIST FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES (SUMMARY)	Didier Chabaud M. Joseph NGIJOL	The seminal papers of Venkataraman (1997) and Shane & Venkataraman (2000) open a new way to analyze entrepreneurship, focusing around the question of opportunities. Nevertheless, although stimulating, these papers remain strongly influenced by an Austrian Economics point of view (Kirzner, 1973, 1979, 1997) and authors that follow this line adopt a positivist perspective: they argue that opportunities are “given” and it is up to the entrepreneur to discover an object which exists independently to him/her (Shane, 2003). In this view, the entrepreneurial process is seen as a sequence distinguishing between the discovery and the exploitation of the business opportunity (Davidsson, 2005, Shane, 2003). Nevertheless, a growing literature tends to argue that opportunities are no longer simply recognised by the entrepreneur as objects existing on an independent basis: opportunities are considered as the result of an emergent process initiated by the entrepreneur (Sarasvathy, 2001; Gartner, Carter and Hills, 2003). In other words, opportunities appear as the fruit of social construction. In a parallel way, Davidsson (2005) will emphasize that “the discovery and exploitation processes feed back on one another”. Building on Chiasson and Saunders (2005), we challenge these views by trying to show how a constructivist point of view enables to reconcile the different perspectives mentioned above, which enables to better understand the phenomenon. This permits us to propose a new conceptual framework opening to empirical research, and enabling to capitalize on the both lines of research.	Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research	2006	PDF Download
A CONTINGENCY MODEL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTRY STRATEGIES: THE ROLE OF MOTIVATION AND RESOURCES AVAILABILITY (INTERACTIVE PAPER)	Nadav Rotemberg-Shir Karl Wennberg	While current theory has tended to focus on either motivational factors or creative strategies of resource utilization, these two streams of research have developed separately. As a result, the literature has little to say under what conditions differences in motivation and resources will lead to divergent types of entry strategies. In this project we outline and test a contingency model suggesting that the interaction of motivation and resource availability is intimately tied to entrepreneurs’ type of entry strategies. When motivation is relatively low but resource availability is high, our model predicts that entrepreneurs will use a real-option entry strategy. When motivation is high but resource availability is low the entrepreneurs will compensate by employing creative solutions, suggesting that entrepreneurs will utilize more of bricolage resource utilization. When both motivation and resource availability is high, our model suggests that the resulted higher self-confidence, allow for a more flexible and experimental strategy coherent with effectuation (Sarasvathy, 2001).	Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research	2011	PDF Download
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Entrepreneurship Research	R Duane Ireland Justin Webb	The eclectic and pervasive benefits of entrepreneurship are generating research questions that interest scholars in a variety of disciplines. These questions have been primarily examined within the context of a scholar’s home discipline while ignoring insights from other disciplines. This approach has left entrepreneurship research as a widely dispersed, loosely connected domain of issues. In this review, the authors explore entrepreneurship research in accounting, anthropology, economics, finance, management, marketing, operations management, political science, psychology, and sociology. They seek to identify common interests that can serve as a bridge for scholars interested in using a multitheoretic and multimethodological lens to design and complete entrepreneurship studies.	Journal of Management	2007	PDF Download
A Dialogue With William J. Baumol: Insights on Entrepreneurship Theory and Education	Mark Griffiths Jill Kickul Sophie Bacq Siri Terjesen	This interview and commentary addresses key issues in entrepreneurship by highlighting William Baumol’s contributions and his personal insights. We emphasize the multilevel approach that entrepreneurship research should adopt, and that assumptions underlying the research are too often unstated, rendering comparison between studies difficult. Baumol argues for more experimentation and government support of research on ways to improve the teaching of innovative entrepreneurship, since there is little evidence on what works and what does not. The discussion stresses that entrepreneurship is a multifaceted phenomenon that varies depending on context, the level of innovation, and its impact on society. Consequently, entrepreneurship research requires the development of an encompassing paradigm, appropriate educational methods, and study of the institutions that provide the most desirable incentives.	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	2012	PDF Download
A field study of entrepreneurial decision-making and moral imagination	McVea John F	How entrepreneurs make decisions under extreme uncertainty and ambiguity is central to explaining entrepreneurial success. However, because of their pioneering nature, these decisions also have significant ethical implications. While there has been an increasing focus on the unique approaches entrepreneurs take to decision-making, less attention has been paid to the inherent ethical dimension of making decisions under high uncertainty. This study applies the concept of moral imagination to the challenges of making entrepreneurial decisions under Knightian uncertainty. It examines the extent to which entrepreneurs use moral imagination to integrate the ethical dimensions of pioneering situations into their decision-making.	Journal of Business Venturing	2009	PDF Download