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Research & Publications
The Entrepreneurship research faculty includes three Chair Professorships and an array of research backgrounds and expertise including qualitative to empirical research. Faculty strengths laid in varied research foci from family businesses to attribute theory, social networks and community impact related to the entrepreneur. The research faculty seeks to examine real world issues for business owners and offer applications for practice by the field and entrepreneurs. Faculty are engaging in new areas of entrepreneurship research in the areas of technology and innovation, social networks as well as community development issues and structures, all relative to the entrepreneur. Also, recent has been a research focus on the entrepreneur in later life. Few have explored this important and unique entrepreneurial experience and this new area of research will continue to be explored within the Entrepreneurship research faculty.
Research in Entrepreneurship
Underpinning our teaching and outreach are multiple, ongoing research projects and scholarly publications in the areas of minority entrepreneurship and later life entrepreneurs as well as our new relationship with Babson College as their U.S. partner for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
Our minority entrepreneurship research is unique within the Entrepreneurship field of study and ha gained national prominence and recognition. We have recently received the 2008 Award for Exceptional Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research from the Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship Centers.
As an emerging focus of research we have started examining the trends and issues of entrepreneurship among the populations over the age of 50.
Publications
At the same time, most of us have are primary research focus on the entrepreneurial experience. The Entrepreneurship faculty has research records and current efforts that are broad and multidisciplinary as well as specific to the particular research interests and expertise of the salient researchers. The Entrepreneurship research faculty has published about a dozen books or monographs in the last ten years as well as numerous book chapters that offer important contributions in entrepreneurial research including such topics as finance, business plans marketing, home-based business and family businesses. Numerous journal articles have been published in the leading entrepreneurship journals as well as other appropriate journals including the following: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and Journal of Small Business Management, among many others. It is also worthy of note that the Entrepreneurship faculty make numerous service contributions to the field via reviewing and editing activities with nearly all of the entrepreneurship journals in our field as well as a current Associate Editorship for the Journal of Small Business Management.