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
New Venture Management
Corporate Innovation
Entrepreneurship Theory, Process, Practice
Recent selected books
Audretsch, David B., (2021). The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Published. (Routledge).
Audretsch, David B., Kunadt, Iris A., (2022). The COVID-19 Crisis and Entrepreneurship, (Springer).
Audretsch, David B.,Kuratko, Donald F., & Link, Albert N., (Eds.) (2021). Entrepreneurship, Finance and Management: Essays in Honor of Mike Wright. Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship: vol 17, No. 6, pp 651–765.
Demircioglu, Mehmet A., Audretsch, David B., (2024). Public Sector Innovation, Cambridge University Press.
Kuratko, Donald F., (2024). Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice, 12th ed. (Cengage Publishers).
Kuratko, Donald F., Goldsby, Michael G., & Hornsby, Jeffrey S., (2025). Corporate Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Organizations, 2nd ed. (Routledge Publishers).
Kuratko, Donald F. & Hornsby, J. S., (2021). New Venture Management: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap for Development. Management, and Growth, 3rd ed. (Routledge Publishers).
Morris, Michael H. & Kuratko, Donald F., (2020). What Do Entrepreneurs Create? Understanding Different Venture Types. (Edward Elgar Press).
Recent selected journal publications
Audretsch, David B., Belitski, Maksim, Caiazza, Rosa, Chowdhury, Farzana, Menter, Matthias, (2023). "Entrepreneurial growth, value creation and new technologies,” The Journal of Technology Transfer, 48, 1535-1551.
Audretsch, David B., Belitski, Maksim, (2024). “Knowledge collaboration, firm productivity and innovation: A critical assessment,” Journal of Business Research, 172, 114412.
Audretsch, David B., Belitski, Maksim, Caiazza, Rosa, Drapeau, Mark D., Menter, Matthias, Wales, William J., (2024). "Resilience and digitally advanced entrepreneurship,” Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 36, (1-2), 1—9.
Audretsch, David B., Belitski, Maksim, Chowdhury, Farzana, Desai, Sameeksha, (2024). “Regulating entrepreneurship quality and quantity,” Research Policy, 53( 2), 104942.
Fisher, Greg C., Neubert, E. & Burnell, D., (2022).” Resourcefulness narratives: transforming actions into stories to mobilize support,” Journal of Business Venturing, 36(4):106122.
Fisher, Greg C. & Neubert, E., ( 2023). “Evaluating ventures fast and slow: sensemaking, intuition, and deliberation in entrepreneurial resource provision decisions,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(4), 1298-1326.
Fisher, Greg C., (2024). “Resourcefulness enactment: The sensemaking process underpinning resourceful actions,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 48(4), 911-940.
Fisher, Greg C., Josefy, Matthew. & Neubert, E., (2024). “Event-based entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1), 106366.
Murray, A. & Fisher, Greg C., (2023). When more is less: Explaining the curse of too much capital for early-stage ventures,” Organization Science, 34(1), 246-282.
Titus, V., Pieper, J, Welbourne, T. & Josefy, Matthew, (2022). “How does your garden grow? The interface of employee and sales growth post IPO,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 16(4): 671-698.
Morris, Michael H., Kuratko, Donald F., Audretsch, David B., & Santos, Susana., (2022). “Overcoming the Liability of Poorness: Disadvantage, Fragility and the Poverty Entrepreneur,” Small Business Economics, 58(1): 41-55.
Kier, Alex S., McMullen, Jeffery S., & Kuratko, Donald F., (2022). “How venture team recommendations influence undue entrepreneurial persistence: The impact of self-regulation and experience,” Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 46(6): 1812-1842.
Kuratko, Donald F. & Audretsch, David B., (2022). “The future of entrepreneurship: The few or the many?” Small Business Economics. Vol. 59(1): 41-55.
Kuratko, Donald F., Burnell, Devin, Stevenson, Regan, Neubert, Emily, & Fisher, Greg, C., (2023). “Enacting entrepreneurial hustle,” Business Horizons, 66 (2): 237-249.
Goldsby, Michael G., Kuratko, Donald F., & Audretsch, David B., (2024). “Site entrepreneurship: Desolation to destination,” Small Business Economics, In Press.
Burnell, D., Neubert, E., Fisher, Greg C., Marvel, M., Stevenson, Regan, & Kuratko, Donald F. (2024). Entrepreneurial Hustle: Scale Development and Validation. Journal of Business Venturing, 39(4), 106407.
Batchelder, Susan, Kuratko, Donald F., Brush, T., & Karlin, M., (2024). “The challenge of gender diversity for case-based instruction in entrepreneurship education.” Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy, In Press.
Mathias, Blake, D. & Fisher, Greg C., (2022). “That’s our beer! Contentious category blending to create collegiate beer,” Journal of Management, 48(3), 693-737.
Mathias, Blake, D. & Wang, S., (2023). “Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses,” Journal of Business Venturing, 38(4), 106312.
Solomon, S. & Mathias, Blake, D., (2023). “Back from the Dead: Exploring the tension between imagination and custodianship in revenant organizations,” Journal of Management, In press.
Mathias, Blake, D., Solomon, S., & Hutto, H., (2023). “Passing the torch: Exploring how tradition and innovation influence coopetition among street performers,” Journal of Management Studies, In press.
McMullen, Jeffery S., (2022). “Real growth through entrepreneurial resourcefulness: Insights on the entropy problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian,” Academy of Management Review, In Press.
Ramoglou, S., and McMullen, Jeffery S., (2022). “What is an opportunity? From theoretical mystification to everyday understanding,” Academy of Management Review, 49(2), 273-298.
Ramoglou, S., McMullen, Jeffery S., (2023). ““Clipping an angel’s wings”: On the value and limitations of philosophy in management research”,” Academy of Management Review, 49(2), 466-471.
McMullen, Jeffery S., Fitzsimmons, J.R., Shetty, K., and Ramoglou, S. (2024). “A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action,” Journal of Business Venturing, 39(1), 106356.
McMullen, Jeffery S., Ingram, K. M. & Adams, J., (2024). “What makes an entrepreneurship study entrepreneurial? Toward a unified theory of entrepreneurial agency,” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 1197-1238.
Lerman, M., Mmbaga, Nick, Smith, A., (2022). “Tracing ideas from Langley (1999): Exemplars, adaptations, considerations, and overlooked,” Organizational Research Methods, 25 (2), 285-307.
Mmbaga, Nick, Yan, J., Gras, D., (2022). “Broad versus narrow organizational scope among nonprofits: A mixed-method study of the moderating effects of the task environment,” Strategic Organization, In Press.
Yan, J., Mmbaga, Nick, Gras, D., (2022). “In pursuit of diversification opportunities, efficiency, and revenue diversification: A generalization and extension for social entrepreneurship,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 17 (1), 132-159.
Mmbaga, Nick, Lerman, M., Munyon, T. Lanivich, S., (2023). “Juggling act: Waged time investments and the health–wealth trade-off,” Journal of Business Research, 158, 113695.
Yan, J., Mmbaga, Nick, Lerman, M., Munyon, T., (2023). “Driven to influence: How entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance,” Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 35 (9-10), 885-904.
Stevenson, Regan M., Allen J., & Wang, T., (2022). “Failed but validated? The effect of market validation on persistence and performance after a crowdfunding failure,” Journal of Business Venturing. 37 (2).
Burnell, D.S., Stevenson, Regan M., & Fisher, Greg C., (2023). “Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting,” Journal of Business Venturing, 38(4), 106314.
Stevenson, Regan M., Burnell, D. S., & Fisher, Greg C., (2024). “The minimum viable product (MVP): Theory and practice,” Journal of Management, In Press.
Stevenson, Regan M., Guarana, C., Lee, J., Conder, S., Bonani, C. & Arvate, P., (2024). “Entrepreneurial identity and entrepreneurial action: A within-person field study,” Personnel Psychology. 77(1), 197-224.