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Research Highlights: Do Founding Teams Experience Shared Passion? (Posted on behalf of Tobias Pret)  Most entrepreneurs are passionate about their ventures. Accordingly, a growing body of research explores the effects of entrepreneurial passion on enterprising individuals. Yet, although businesses are often founded by multiple entrepreneurs, we know comparatively little about how passion works in new venture teams. A recent study by Susana Santos and Melissa Cardon, titled “What's Love Got to Do With it? Team Entrepreneurial Passion and Performance in New Venture Teams” and published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice , sheds much needed light on ...

Research Highlights Our research committee’s picks of the latest scientific, entrepreneurship literature. Papers featured in our new section, Research Highlight, are selected by the ENT Division’s Research Committee. We are always seeking recently published articles that are “cutting edge” in terms of methodological rigor, study setting, and theoretical and/or practical contribution. If there is an article you feel should be considered, please send it to Casey Frid (cj.frid@gmail.com) along with a brief summary of the article and why you feel it should be featured.” Linguistic Analysis of U.S. President’s Tweets Reveals “Schumpeterian” Leanings ...

The studENT: Publicly Available and Subscription-Based Data Sources  By: Melissa R. Medaugh PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Student Representative, AOM Entrepreneurship Division We Need Quality Data! I’ve often heard, “A done dissertation is a good dissertation.” As I endure a labor of love to complete my own dissertation, I’m a believer! We all want to complete our PhD programs and start successful careers as newly-minted professors as soon as possible. Ah, to join the ranks of other entrepreneurship professors and earn a decent salary... Unfortunately, the process of designing and executing a dissertation can ...

by Diane M. Sullivan The 2018 Mid-minter Meeting of the Entrepreneurship Division was hosted this January by the Entrepreneurship Division Chair, Christina Guenther at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. Participating in this year’s Mid-winter Meeting were members of the Entrepreneurship Division’s leadership spanning the globe from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. Throughout the meeting, the leadership focused on planning the Division’s activities and events for 2018 Academy of Management Conference including, in part, planning the Division ...

by Melissa R. Medaugh If you’ve ever attended an AOM annual meeting, you may have felt a bit overwhelmed. The sheer number of conference attendees and opportunities to hear about the newest and greatest research can leave students, in particular, wondering about the “machine” that enables the Academy to function at peak capacity. As a student member in the Entrepreneurship Division, I’ve often wondered who and what is behind the curtain. Who plans the massive annual meetings and manages what must be hundreds of conference submissions through the review process? Who are the decision makers and how do they make decisions? What decisions ...