Foundational Paper Award

Friederike Welter (University of Siegen and Institut für Mittelstandsforschung Bonn): “Contextualizing entrepreneurship—conceptual challenges and ways forward” published in the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice in 2011.

Emmanuelle Fauchart (University of Fribourg​) and Marc Gruber (EPFL) for “Darwinians, communitarians, and missionaries: The role of founder identity in entrepreneurship”, published in 2011 in the Academy of Management Journal.

Melissa Cardon (University of Tennessee), Joakim Wincent (Hanken School of Economics and University of St Gallen), Jagdip Singh (Case Western Reserve University), and Mateja Drnovsek (University of Ljubljana) for “The Nature and Experience of Entrepreneurial Passion” published in 2009 in Academy of Management Review.

Dean Shepherd (University of Notre Dame) for “Learning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employed” published in 2003 in Academy of Management Review.

Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina) & Jennifer Jennings (University of Alberta) for "The pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship: Toward a family embeddedness perspective" published in 2003 in Journal of Business Venturing. 

Ted Baker (Rutgers University and The University of Cape Town) & Reed Nelson (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) for “Creating something from nothing: Resource construction through entrepreneurial bricolage” published in 2005 in Administrative Science Quarterly.

Sharon Alvarez (University of Pittsburgh) & Jay B. Barney (University of Utah) for "The Discovery-creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action" published in 2007 in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Jeffery S. McMullen (Indiana University) & Dean A. Shepherd (Notre Dame University) for "Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur" published in 2006 in Academy of Management Review.

Saras D Sarasvathy for “Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency” published in 2001 in the Academy of Management Review.

Jeffrey G Covin and Dennis P Slevin for “Strategic management of small firms in hostile and benign environments” published in 1989 in the Strategic Management Journal.

Benjamin Oviatt and Patricia McDougal for "Toward a Theory of International New Ventures" published in 1994 in Journal of International Business Studies.

William J. Baumol for “Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive and destructive” published in 1996 in Journal of Business Venturing.

Jerome Katz and William B. Gartner for “Properties of emerging organizations” published in 1988 in Academy of Management Review.

Javier Gimeno, Tim Folta, Arnold Cooper and Carolyn Woo for “Survival of the fittest: Entrepreneurial human capital and the persistence of underperforming firms” published in 1997 in Administrative Science Quarterly.

Scott Shane (Case Western Reserve University) for “Prior knowledge and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities” published in 2000 in Organization Science.

No award

Howard Aldrich (U. of North Carolina) and C. Marlena Fiol (U. of Colorado, Denver) for “Fools rush in: The institutional context of industry creation”, published in 1994 in Academy of Management Review.

Tom Lumpkin (Syracuse U.) and Greg Dess (U. of Texas, Dallas) for “Clarifying the entrepreneurial orientation construct and linking it to performance,” published in 1996 in Academy of Management Review.