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Trenton A. Williams

Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
William L. Haeberle Professor of Entrepreneurship
Editor, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Department: Management and Entrepreneurship

Campus: Bloomington

Biography

Trenton (Trent) Williams is an Associate Professor in the Management and Entrepreneurship Department. He earned a B.A. in

Areas of Expertise

Strategy and entrepreneurship; design sprints and innovation; resourcefulness and resilience to adversity; community-embedded venture emergence

Academic Degrees

PhD, Indiana University
Master of Business, Indiana University
MS-Strategy/OBHR—Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
BA - English and Philosophy, Brigham Young University

Professional Experience

Management Consultant, PwC Consulting
Management Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
Internet Marketing Consultant, 10XMarketing
Brand Management Marketing Consultant, StoneMantel Consulting

Awards, Honors & Certificates

2021 Named among the “40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs under 40 in the World” by Poets and Quants
Emerging Scholar Award—Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management (2019)
Responsible Research in Management 2019 IACMR Presidential Award Winner
Responsible Research in Management 2018 IACMR Presidential Award Finalist
2018 Kelley School of Business Eyster Teaching Award
Responsible Research in Management 2017 Inaugural IACMR Presidential Award
Kamprad Foundation grant (IKEA group) (Sweden)
Handelsbanken Research Foundations grant (Sweden)
IU Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) research grant
IU Kelley School Center for Business of Life Sciences (CBLS) research grant
Recipient, Panschar Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business (2013-2014)

Selected Publications

Williams, T.A., Zhao, E. Y., George, G., Sonenshein, S., and Ucbasaran, D. (2021). Breaking boundaries to creatively generate value: The role of resourcefulness in entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(5), 106141.
Williams, T.A. and Shepherd, D.A. (2021). Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption. Organization Science, 32(3), 527-908.
Willaims, T., and Murphy, C. (2021). Ruminating on What You Think of Me: A Grounded Model of Construed Image Work. Academy of Management Journal, in press.
Shepherd, D.A., Parida, V., Williams, T.A., and Wincent, J. (2021). Organizing the exploitation of vulnerable people: A qualitative assessment of human trafficking. Journal of Management, in press.
Ahmed, A., Ucbasaran, D., Cacciotti, G. and Williams, T. (2021). Integrating psychological resilience, stress and coping in entrepreneurship: A systematic review and research agenda. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, in press.
Williams, T. A., Thorgren, S., and 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.
Bacq, S., Geoghegan, W., Josefy, M., Stevenson, R., and Williams, T.A. (2020). The COVID-19 Virtual Idea Blitz: Marshaling Social Entrepreneurship to Rapidly Respond to Urgent Grand Challenges. Business Horizons, 63(8), 705-723. View Full Text
Grimes, M., Williams, T., and Zhao, E. 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), 234-238.
Grimes, M., Williams, T. A., and Zhao, E. Y. (2019). Anchors aweigh: The sources, variety, and challenges of mission drift. Academy of Management Review, 44(4), 819-845..
Shepherd, D. A., and Williams, T. A. (2018). Hitting rock bottom after job loss: Bouncing back to create a new positive work identity. Academy of Management Review, 43(1), 28-49.
Williams, T. A., Gruber, D. A., Sutcliffe, K. M., Shepherd, D. A., and Zhao, E. Y. (2017). Organizational response to adversity: Fusing crisis management and resilience research streams. Academy of Management Annals, 11(2), 733-769.
Williams, T. A., and Shepherd, D. A. (2016). Building resilience or providing sustenance: Different paths of emergent ventures in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 2069-2102.
Williams, T. A., and Shepherd, D. A. (2016). Victim entrepreneurs doing well by doing good: Venture creation and well-being in the aftermath of a resource shock. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(4), 365-387.
Shepherd, D. A., Williams, T. A., and Patzelt, H. (2015). Thinking about entrepreneurial thinking: Review and research agenda. Journal of Management, 41(1), 11-46.

Edited on January 28, 2022