The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University has established itself as a world leader in academic research. Ranked in the Top 25 of faculty research, some of the world's finest entrepreneurship researchers and scholars are part of the entrepreneurship team at Indiana University.

Recent publications

Recent selected books

Audretsch, David B. & Link, Albert N. (2019). Sources of Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Behavior. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Kuratko, Donald F., Hornsby, J. S., & Goldsby, M. G. (2019). Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations. Routledge Publishers.

Kuratko, Donald F. (2020). Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice (11th ed.). Cengage Publishers.

Morris, Michael H. & Kuratko, Donald F. (2020). What Do Entrepreneurs Create? Understanding Different Venture Types. Edward Elgar Press.

Kuratko, Donald F. & Hornsby, J. S. (2021). New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur's Roadmap for Development, Management, and Growth (3rd ed.). Routledge Publishers.

Shepherd, D. A. & Williams, Trenton A. (2019). Spontaneous Venturing: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Alleviating Suffering in the Aftermath of a Disaster. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Recent selected journal publications

Audretsch, David B., Kritikos, Alexander S., & Schiersch, Alexander (2020). Microfirms and innovation in the service sector. Small Business Economics, 55:997-1018.

Audretsch, David B. & Moog, Petra (2020). Democracy and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720943307

Audretsch, David B., Lehmann, Erik E., & Schenkenhofer, Julian (2020). A context-choice model of niche entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720936042

Bacq, Sophie & Lumpkin, G. T. (2021). Social entrepreneurship and COVID-19. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1):283-286.

Bacq, Sophie & Aguilera, R. (2021). Stakeholder governance for responsible innovation: A theory of value creation, appropriation, and distribution. Journal of Management Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3806124

Cochran, Sara L. (2019). What's gender got to do with it? The experiences of U.S. women entrepreneurship students. Journal of Small Business Management, 57(Sl):111-129.

Covin, Jeffrey G., Garrett, R. P., Jr., Kuratko, Donald F., & Shepherd, D. A. (2020). Short leash or long leash? Parenting style, initial strategic clarity, and the development of venture learning proficiency. Journalof Business Venturing, 35(4):105951.

Covin, Jeffrey G., Garrett, R. P., Jr., Kuratko, Donald F., & Bolinger, M. (2021). Internal corporate venture planning autonomy, strategic evolution, and venture performance. Small Business Economics, 56(1):293-310.

Fisher, Greg C., Stevenson, Regan M., Burnell, D., Neubert, E., & Kuratko, Donald F. (2020). Entrepreneurial hustle: How venture leaders overcome challenges and enlist stakeholders. Journalof Management Studies, 57(5):1002-1036.

Wood, M., Bakker, R., & Fisher, G. (2021). Back to the future: A time-calibrated theory of entrepreneurial action. Academy of Management Review, 46:147-171.

Kuratko, Donald F., Neubert, Emily, & Marvel, Matthew R. (2021). Insights on the mentorship and coachability of entrepreneurs. Business Horizons, 64(2):199-209

Kuratko, Donald F., Hornsby, J. S., & McKelvie, Alexander (2021). The entrepreneurial mindset in corporate entrepreneurship: Forms, impediments, and action for research. Journalof Small Business Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2021.1907585

Kuratko, Donald F., Fisher, Greg C., & Audretsch, David B. (2020). Unraveling the entrepreneurial mindset. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00372-6

Marvel, M.R., Wolfe, M.T., & Kuratko, Donald F. (2020). Escaping the knowledge corridor: How founder human capital and founder coachability impacts product innovation in new ventures. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(6): 106060.

Kier, A. S. & McMullen, Jeffery S. (2020). Entrepreneurial imaginativeness and new venture ideation in newly forming teams. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(6):106048.

McMullen, Jeffery S., Ingram, K. M., & Adams, J. (in press). What makes an entrepreneurship study entrepreneurial? Toward a unified theory of entrepreneurial agency. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720922460

Brownell, K., McMullen, Jeffery S., & O'Boyle, E. (2021). Fatal attraction: A systematic review and research agenda of the dark triad in entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(3):106106.

Mathias, Blake O., Huyghe, A., & Williams, D. (2020). Selling your soul to the devil? The importance of independent ownership to identity distinctiveness for oppositional categories. Strategic Management Journal, 41 (13):2548-2584.

Mathias, B. & Fisher, Greg C. (2021). That's our beer! Contentious category blending to create collegiate beer.Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063211008973

Stevenson, ReganM., Josefy, Matthew, McMullen, Jeffery S., & Shepherd, D. (2020). Organizational and management theorizing using experiment-based entrepreneurship research: Covered terrain and the next frontiers. Academy of Management Annals, 14(2):759-796.

Stevenson, Regan M., Allen, J. & Wang, T. (2020). Creative and resourceful: How human, social and psychological resources affect creative workers' ability to rebound after failure. Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00422-z

Williams, Trenton A., Thorgren, S., & Lindh, I. (2020). Rising from failure, staying down, or more of the same? An inductive study of entrepreneurial reentry. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(4):631-662.

Williams, Trenton A. & Shepherd, D. A. (in press). Bounding and binding: Trajectories of community-organization emergence following a major disruption. Organization Science, 32(3):824-855. 

Grimes, Matthew, Williams, Trenton A., & Zhao, Eric Y. (2020). Beyond hybridity: Accounting for the values complexity of all organizations in the study of mission and mission drift. Academy of Management Review, 45(1):234-239.

Zhao, Eric Y., Ishihara, Masakazu, & Jennings, P. Devereaux (2020). Strategic entrepreneurship's dynamic tensions: Converging (diverging) effects of experience and networks on market entry timing and entrant performance. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(2):1-23.

Zhao, Eric Y. & Yang, Ling (2020). Women hold up half the sky? Informal institutions, entrepreneurial decisions, and gender gap in venture performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720980705