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1 Contributors Karin Berglund, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Stockholm University School of Business and Centre Director of Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Sweden. In her research, Karin has focused on how entrepreneurship has been manifested in different forms in contemporary society (e.g. in schools, in the public sector, in social and green issues, in incorporating more people in entrepreneurship, e.g. women, immigrants, young people). Her overarching research interest lies in studying the emergence of diverse entrepreneurship forms as part of an enterprise culture fostered in society. Karin has published in international journals covering different topics related to entrepreneurship such as gender, education, innovation, critical pedagogy and regional development, and now social/societal entrepreneurship. Her methodological interests lie within ethnography, discourse analysis, narrative research and participatory action research. Before entering academia Karin had a career in the private small-business sector, and also took part in starting a new venture. Barbara Bird, Ph.D., is Professor of Management at Kogod School of Business, American University in Washington, DC. She teaches organizational behaviour and leadership courses. She holds a psychology degree from California State University, Fresno, an MA in Social Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurs behaviour. Her research projects include Latino first- and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs, as well as developing a measure of entrepreneurs selling. She wrote Entrepreneurial Behavior, several scholarly journal articles in Academy of Management Review, Organization Science and Personnel Psychology. She is past chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management and is the most senior editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. She has served as industry consultant to the Advanced Technology Program (NIST) and is a family business adviser. Malin Brännback, D.Sc., B. Sc. (Pharm), is Vice-Rector and Chair of International Business at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, where she received her doctorate in Management Science in She is Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden. She also holds a B.Sc. in Pharmacy. Before her return to Åbo ix

2 x Handbook of research methods and applications Akademi University in 2003, she served as Associate Professor in Information Systems at the University of Turku, and Professor of Marketing at Turku School of Economics. She has published widely on entrepreneurship, biotechnology business and knowledge management. She has co-authored with Alan Carsrud several books: Entrepreneurship (2005), Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind: Opening the Black Box (2009) and Understanding Family Businesses (2012). She is on the review board of Journal of Small Business Management. Her current research interests are in entrepreneurial intentionality, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial growth and performance in technology entrepreneurship and family business. Candida G. Brush, Ph.D., is Professor of Entrepreneurship, Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division, holds the Franklin W. Olin Chair in Entrepreneurship, and serves as Research Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. She holds an honorary doctorate from Jönköping University in Sweden and she has a visiting adjunct appointment to Nordland University, Bodø Graduate School of Business, Norway. Dr Brush is a founding member of the Diana Project International, and winner of the 2007 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Her research investigates women s growth businesses, angel investing and strategies of emerging ventures. She has written nine books, 120 journal articles and is the author of other publications. She serves as an editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and is an angel investor and board member for several companies and organizations. Alan Carsrud, Ph.D., Ec.D. (hc), is Visiting Research Professor and Docent at Åbo Akademi University, Finland and during 2013 Visiting Professor at Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. In 2012 he retired as Loretta Rogers Chair of Entrepreneurship Research at Ryerson University in Canada. He served on the faculties of University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California, Durham University, University of California, Los Angeles, Bond University and Florida International University. He has written over 200 journal articles and chapters on entrepreneurship, family business, and social and clinical psychology, as well as seven books on entrepreneurship and family business. His entrepreneurship research is in technology, cognitive factors (motivation and intentions), growth, leadership, education and family business. He co-founded Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management. He is Managing Director of Carsrud & Associates, helping to create firms as diverse as biotechnology, software, wineries and airlines.

3 Contributors xi David Deeds, Ph.D., is the Schulze Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Opus College of Business at the University of St Thomas, Minneapolis, MN. Previously, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, Case Western Reserve University and Temple University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in He has taught courses in strategy, entrepreneurship and technology management at the undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D. and executive levels during his career. He has published numerous articles in management and entrepreneurship in journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. His current research interests include research alliances, entrepreneurial finance and the management of technology ventures. During his career he has worked as a consultant for a number of companies including Alcoa and Champion Technologies. Before becoming an academic, Dr Deeds was co-founder and president of Light- Speed Corporation. Linda F. Edelman, M.B.A., D.B.A., holds her degrees from Boston University, MA. She is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Bentley University, Waltham, MA. Before coming to Bentley she was a research fellow at the Warwick Business School, Warwick University, UK. Professor Edelman is the author of over 15 book chapters and 30 peerreviewed journal articles. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Industrial and Corporate Change and Organization Studies. She serves on three editorial boards as well as on the board of reviewers for the Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Currently, she teaches strategic management at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Her recent research examines strategic industry dynamics, women and nascent entrepreneurs, SME internationalization and entrepreneurial finance. Richard T. Harrison, Ph.D., is currently Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Edinburgh University, UK. He was previously Dean of Queen s University Management School in Belfast and has previously held chairs at Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Ulster universities, as well as visiting positions in China, Australia and the USA. His research into the dynamics and impact of the entrepreneurial process includes studies of entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial learning and leadership, technology venturing, research methods and philosophy, and economic development and public policy. Including eight books and edited conference proceedings, he has published over 150 scholarly publications on these and other topics. He is founding co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, and sits or has sat on the editorial boards of a number of leading entrepreneurship journals.

4 xii Handbook of research methods and applications Bengt Johannisson, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Entrepreneurship at Linnaeus University and at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. Previously he held chairs at Lund University in Sweden and at Roskilde University in Denmark. He has also been Visiting Professor at universities in the UK, Canada, Austria and Italy. During he was the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development and has published widely on entrepreneurship, personal networking, family business and on local and regional development. In Sweden, Professor Johannisson has initiated inter-university networks on research and postgraduate studies in entrepreneurship. For 15 years he was a director of the European Doctoral Programme in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management. Professor Johannisson is the 2008 Winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Recent books include Bengt Johannisson and Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand (eds), Enacting Regional Dynamics and Entrepreneurship (2012) and Karin Berglund, Bengt Johannisson and Birgitta Schwartz (eds), Societal Entrepreneurship: Positioning, Penetrating, Promoting (2012). Thomas P. Kenworthy, Ph.D., holds his doctorate from the University of Calgary. He is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the School of Business at the University of Dayton, Ohio. His research interests are predominantly focused on creativity, the nature and extent of scientific knowledge in the domain of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship through acquisition. Stefan Lång, Ph.D., holds a Lectureship in International Marketing at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, where he teaches international business, intercultural marketing management and communication. He earned his doctorate in Marketing and Strategy from Cardiff University Business School, UK, in His specific research interests relate to the role of strategic marketing, communication and semiotics in an international business context. His business expertise and consultancy activities are in the area of marketing strategy and management, branding strategy and marketing communication with a special focus on semiotics. Scott Latham, Ph.D., holds a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is Associate Professor of Strategy and Ph.D. Director at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His research focuses on organizational decline, environmental turbulence and innovation; it has been published in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Strategy and other outlets. He teaches strategy and entrepreneurship. In addition to his scholarship, he serves on the executive board of M2D2, the Massachusetts

5 Contributors xiii Medical Device Development centre, the state s medical device incubator, where he coaches medical device start-ups. Claire M. Leitch, Ph.D., is Professor of Management Learning and Leadership at Lancaster University Management School, UK, where she is Director of Research and Director of Doctoral Programmes. Previously she was a senior lecturer in Management at Queen s University Management School, Belfast, and was Director of Education for six years. From 2008 to 2011 she was Visiting Professor at Aarhus University Business School, Denmark and from 2005 to 2006 Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests fall into three distinct but interrelated areas concentrating on the development, enhancement and growth of the individual and the organization in an entrepreneurial context. She is a researcher who investigates problems and issues from an interpretivist perspective and is particularly interested in the application of alternative research methodologies, such as critical incident technique and action research. Since 1998 she has taught research methods to undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. Tatiana S. Manolova, D.B.A., holds a doctorate from Boston University and is Associate Professor of Management at Bentley University in Massachusetts. Her research interests include strategic management (competitive strategies for new and small companies), international entrepreneurship and management in emerging economies. During , she was Visiting Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she conducted research on entrepreneurship in affiliation with the Prince Salman Institute for Entrepreneurship. Dr Manolova is the author of over 40 scholarly articles and book chapters. She serves on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing and Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. W. Edward McMullen, Ph.D., retired as full Professor in Management from the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is widely considered to be one of the founders of entrepreneurship research in Canada. His research interests have focused on creativity, outsider assistance, the nature and extent of scientific knowledge in the domain of entrepreneurship and the efficacy of post-secondary entrepreneurial programming. Maija Renko, D.Sc., Ph.D., holds an Associate Professorship in Entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her D.Sc. in International Business from the Turku School of Economics, Finland (2006), and a Ph.D. in Business Administration at Florida International University (2008). Through her research and teaching she inspires and

6 xiv Handbook of research methods and applications advises budding entrepreneurs on starting up successful new businesses and social ventures, with a specific focus on market research and business planning. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the management of technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and marketing in outlets such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Small Business Economics and the Journal of Small Business Management. Leon Schjoedt, Ph.D., received his doctorate from University of Colorado at Boulder. He is currently Associate Professor of Management with the Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics at Indiana University South Bend. His research focuses on entrepreneurial behaviour the intersection between entrepreneurship and organizational behaviour. Dr Schjoedt s work has appeared in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of High Technology Management Research, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Organizational Dynamics and Small Business Economics, and in numerous book chapters. He frequently presents at academic meetings, including the annual meeting for the Academy of Management and Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Kelly G. Shaver, Ph.D., is Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. His previous appointments include the College of William & Mary, Virginia, the National Science Foundation, and the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute in Stockholm. His published work includes 15 books and numerous articles, one of which is among the top quarter of 1 per cent of core contributions in Entrepreneurship. He has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Dr Shaver has been editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, has served on the editorial boards of Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Small Business Management. Shaver is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. Siri Terjesen, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington. She obtained a Ph.D. from Cranfield University in the UK and a Master s from Norges Handelshøyskole in Norway. Her research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management,

7 Contributors xv Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Decision Sciences and many other outlets, and has been profiled in the US News & World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post and other news media. She is co-author of Strategic Management: Thought and Action (2008). Her research interests are entrepreneurship, international business and strategy. Caroline Wigren, Ph.D., obtained her doctorate in Business Administration in 2003 from Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University in Sweden. She is currently Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at CIRCLE and in the Sten K. Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship at Lund University, Sweden. She carries out research on entrepreneurship in different contexts, and is interested in regional development and methodological issues.

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