A5030681081- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Social Capital and Networks
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Collaboration in agile enterprises
- Higher Education and Employability
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Innovation Policy and R&D
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Impact of AI and Big Data on Business and Society
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Psychological and Educational Research Studies
Northern Illinois University
2019-2024
Center for Innovation
2019
North Carolina State University
2016-2019
Overview: Digital transformation is reshaping entire segments and industries: communications, retail, and, increasingly, health care, medicine, agriculture, manufacturing. While a few companies reach front-runner status, most seem to lag. top concern of senior leaders worldwide motivated the development this study. This article describes results Patterns Digitization survey designed assess how are implementing digital transformation. The covers various strategies employ, technologies they...
Research describes pivots as quick and comprehensive change in venture direction triggered by (external) opportunity-based information suggesting a better opportunity. We discovered two distinct pivot types qualitative study (Study 1), neither of which fully aligns with prior research. “Opportunity pivots” are but slower less than previously described; “survival rapid (internal) threat-based information. Lacking theory to explain our discoveries, we tested competing theories an experimental...
OVERVIEW:This article describes how to use unstructured text analytics support critical product development decisions. It clarifies the difference between structured and data proposes an analytical process for using big natural language processing tools managerial decision-making. The usefulness of decisions is demonstrated in real cases. In particular, we illustrate develop services, find new customers, assess viability. Results outcomes are presented, practical considerations selecting...
OVERVIEW:Investment in innovation training has the potential to help firms create more successful product offerings, but extent which companies do is unknown. Although efforts optimize formal processes and integrate Agile methods into development have led efficient systems, a large skill gap remains that cannot be overcome by tools alone. To explore are (or not) engaging address those gaps, interviews were conducted with 30 senior R&D managers from Fortune 1000 companies. The results...
Entrepreneurial effort is a process-related phenomenon, where individuals or teams organize and launch venture to capitalize on identified opportunities. Using role theory as guide, this study develops new, theory-based construct associated with hybrid entrepreneurship, which we term work-to-venture conflict (WVC). WVC reflects how the entrepreneurship process can create between wage employment venture-launch roles over time. repeated-measures data collection 26 weeks using sample of...
This article describes the results of a survey designed to assess how companies are implementing digital transformation, including various strategies they employ and actions take achieve large-scale transformations. While few seem reach front-runner status, majority lag behind. phenomenon is top concern boardrooms worldwide motivated development this study. To help these organizations, we highlight differentiated strategic principles characteristics companies' design processes digitally...
Our work is motivated by the empirical finding that Benefit corporations (B corps) pursue certification experience a short-term slowdown in financial performance. To shed light on this finding, we examine whether entrepreneurial orientation (EO) changes across eight weeks sample (n = 17) of B corps pursuing relative to 24) emerging ventures not corp certification. abductive, exploratory research finds EO does change over time as function pursuit. However, after further examination these...
We report on the findings from an in-class experiment that represents a learning innovation which can enable classroom-based conversations about bias in domain of entrepreneurship. More specifically, present explores gender venture funding with regard to In introduction entrepreneurship class, we randomly assigned students one three experimental conditions—students evaluated executive summary for either written by woman, or man, was neutral (i.e., control group). Students acted as if they...