Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to share our recent paper, “Academic Entrepreneuring: Bridging Entrepreneurial Action and Academic Careers,” forthcoming in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights.
Academic careers are often portrayed as linear pathways, yet in practice they unfold under conditions of uncertainty, constraint, and continuous evaluation. In this paper, we conceptualize academic careers as entrepreneurial processes, highlighting how opportunity framing, effectuation, bricolage, and iterative learning shape researcher trajectories.
This perspective offers a new lens on how scholars navigate their careers and has implications for researcher development, evaluation systems, and institutional support across career stages.
You can find the paper here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00609. We would greatly welcome your thoughts and feedback.
Best regards,
Yanhong Ding
Research Fellow in Entreprenurship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
On behalf of the co-authors:
Herman Aguinis (George Washington University);
Marilyn A. Uy and Maw Der Foo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)