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The studENT - The Product of Your Ph.D. Is ‘You’: Reflections from The Job-Market Year

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 10-30-2024
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The Product of Your Ph.D. Is ‘You’: Reflections from The Job-Market Year (posted on behalf of Asif Kanan) It’s only now, amid my Job Market Year, that the saying "the product of your Ph.D. is you " has started to feel real. This phase is both challenging and rewarding, a time when years of growth are tested in the academic marketplace. If we think of the Ph.D. journey as a process of development, this year is when we put the “finished product”—ourselves—out there. The Ph.D. Journey: A Product Development Phase We often hear the Ph.D. journey described as a marathon rather than a sprint, but it’s more than just a long race. It’s a deeply layered ...
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Research Highlights—Why some entrepreneurs choose to remain hidden?

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 10-30-2024
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Research Highlights—Why some entrepreneurs choose to remain hidden? (posted on behalf of @Julian Riano ) We often assume (and teach) that entrepreneurs need maximum visibility. Struggling startups are encouraged to promote themselves widely because anyone could become a customer, investor, or stakeholder capable of catalyzing their business. So, why might some entrepreneurs choose to remain hidden? In their recent study, Robert Nason, Siddharth Vedula, Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq, and Andrew Charman challenge our latent assumption by exploring entrepreneurs in the informal economy who deliberately hide rather than seek visibility. Their research, ...
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The studENT - Everything I’ve learned from doing a PhD

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 09-11-2024
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Everything I’ve learned from doing a PhD (posted on behalf of @Suzana Varga ) As I am slowly approaching the closure of this academic chapter representing my doctoral studies, I have been catching myself in reflection on what the takeaways I have been forming from the past six years of my life are. I’ve spent those years deeply devoted to my academic path, I gave it quite literally everything, all of myself until the very last drop of my energy. What I’ve learned from doing a PhD moves way beyond the technicalities of conducting academic research. The purpose and ultimate expected outcome of obtaining a doctoral degree ...
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Research Highlights—What is social entrepreneurship?

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 06-27-2024
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(posted on behalf of @Julian Riano ) Those brave enough to answer this question might bring forward concepts such as social capital, social innovation, social objectives, value creation and market requirements. However, previous studies on social entrepreneurship (SE) have argued it is ‘an essentially contested concept’, ‘it lacks construct legitimacy and undefined theoretical content and boundaries’, ‘the field has not been completely probed, and there exists some unexplored research themes for future research’, whilst others recognised ‘SE research transcends the foci on either detached structures or individuals, and that research in SE is often led ...
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The studENT - Notes from job market

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 06-27-2024
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(posted on behalf of @Suzana Varga ) With the new academic hiring cycle around the corner, I thought it would be helpful to reflect on well-being-related themes that can become prominent in times when many of us may be reaching the pressure point known as the job market . While my job market experience was interrupted in the midst of it by an extended leave due to burnout, I do think that such an “extreme case” offered opportunities for important lessons to derive. I hope to be able to depict these lessons in a way that can support my peers’ job market journey and serve as a reminder about the importance of taking care of ourselves at all times, particularly ...
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The studENT - Conversations with studENT friends

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 05-01-2024
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(posted on behalf of @Suzana Varga) For this month’s studENT blog, I wanted to capture and convey voices of the PhD community (instead of just mine). Hence, I have organized a couple of panel discussions where fellow PhD candidates from different parts of the world and varying institutions shared their views, challenges, and ways of coping with well-being related themes. The brave colleagues who positively responded to my invitation are all ambitious young scholars who are just about to wrap up their PhD trajectories. We had wonderfully refreshing open conversations where we discussed important questions around mental health and ways of coping with the ...
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The studENT - A Year of studENT Mental Health

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 03-08-2024
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(posted on behalf of @Suzana Varga ) Dear fellow ENT PhD candidates around the world, my name is Suzana Varga, and I am a PhD candidate in my final year at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. It is marvelous to be part of such a diverse and warm community as the ENT division, and it is with immense pleasure and great pride that I have the honor to be this year’s PhD representative at the global scale. Some of you may remember my name from an earlier studENT blog post that my dear friend and colleague, Dr. Sai Kalvapalle, and I wrote together about mental health and well-being in academia. And YES, Sai has successfully ...
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Practitioner's corner—Taking the steps from industry to practice to academic

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 01-22-2024
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(posted on behalf of @Marcos Hashimoto , Managing Director, Turner School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bradley University, Peoria, IL) I am very grateful for the opportunity to share my story here. I hope these words can inspire others to find their mission and purpose. My first startup: I always proudly tell my students the story my first entrepreneurial endeavor to show them that failure is part of the entrepreneur’s journey. In 1991 I was invited by a very close friend of mine to open a fashion boutique in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a side hustle as none of us were ready to quit jobs yet. I was 28, but still very naïve and ...
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Practitioner's corner—A Professor's Story, How One Moment Can Impact Your Life

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 11-10-2023
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(posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez Ruiz ) This is around my 5th academic year, following nearly 10 years in business. During my life's journey, I have successfully launched three startups, worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for the Federal Government in Mexico, been an Assistant Professor at multiple Universities, and been awarded for best dissertation in 2018 and 2019 at Oklahoma State University. I have obtained my MBA in Finance, my Master's in Entrepreneurship, and obtained my Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship. As a new assistant professor at Ivy College of Business, I am glad to share my story of how one moment can impact your life. ...
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Research Highlights—Exploring Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 11-10-2023
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(posted on behalf of @Seham Ghalwash ) Jeff York’s article, titled " Exploring Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives ," delves into the world of sustainable entrepreneurship, and its significance lies in its contributions to two key areas of research. At the heart of this narrative, the paper uncovers the world of sustainable entrepreneurship, investigating why some thrive while others stumble in environmental entrepreneurship. It classifies these eco-entrepreneurs into two distinct categories. The first group is propelled by business acumen, accommodating diverse stakeholders regardless of their ...
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The studENT - Academia backstage: Conversations on community, meaning, and the hard parts of academic life

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 07-20-2023
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Academia backstage: Conversations on community, meaning, and the hard parts of academic life (posted on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle ) In planning my final post in this role (sad face), and as I slowly transition out of being a PhD student looking for a job (happy face), I have been reflecting a lot. These reflections were particularly punctuated by recent conversations around integrity in academic work, and what we owe to science, society, and what is perhaps the most central but least discussed element in all of this – community. My community has helped me write my papers, teach my courses, navigate the job market, overcome imposter syndrome, ...
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The studENT - Let’s talk about mental health and well-being in academia!

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 03-14-2023
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Let’s talk about mental health and well-being in academia! (posted on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle and @Suzana Varga ) Hi! For this blog post, I have the distinct privilege to be joined by Suzana Varga, a fellow PhD Candidate and friend who studies high growth firms and business scaling. We both share a background in psychology and a deep interest in human behavior and relationships. And as innately curious people, we often muse about how we can make our work life a little bit better than the way we found it. Suzana and I co-wrote this blog post with three ambitions: 1) to sustain conversation around mental health in academia, 2) to highlight ...
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Research Highlights: Why do scholars need to focus on the social impact of entrepreneurship apart from social entrepreneurship?

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 03-14-2023
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Why do scholars need to focus on the social impact of entrepreneurship apart from social entrepreneurship? (posted on behalf of @Seham Ghalwash Entrepreneurship should solve societal problems by bringing positive externalities that have societal implications. Accordingly, entrepreneurship creates both social and economic value. Indeed, entrepreneurship literature has provided an in-depth understanding of entrepreneurship and its contribution to economic growth across developed and developing countries. Yet, the literature overlooks how commercial entrepreneurship as a social multiplier solves societal challenges and still leverages unique opportunities ...
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Research Highlights: Entrepreneurship-as-Practice

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 01-20-2023
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Entrepreneurship-as-Practice (posted on behalf of @Aviel Cogan and @Tobias Pret ) Whereas strategy-as-practice has become an important alternative to the dominant institutional and resource-based views of strategy research, Entrepreneurship-as-Practice (EaP) has not received adequate attention to date, especially from top tier entrepreneurship journals. As a result, there are enduring gaps in our understanding of the relational and processual nature of entrepreneurial activities. For example, while entrepreneurial resourcing has been shown to have a significant impact on the abilities of entrepreneurs to successfully develop their ventures, little ...
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The studENT - Reviewer 2 Who? Academic Reviewing as a Doctoral Student

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 01-20-2023
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Reviewer 2 Who? Academic Reviewing as a Doctoral Student (posted on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle ) It’s mid-January as I write this, which means a lot of us doctoral students are coming up for air after a hectic conference submission period. What better way to recover from the holiday season than to push those manuscripts forward, and almost earn a separate doctorate in word count manipulation? There is a rule of thumb in (management) research now that I gathered at the last AOM ENT Doctoral Consortium: editors implore that for every manuscript you submit, you should review 3 manuscripts (because at least 3 others review your work). After all, peer ...
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FIFTH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE "Digital Spaces: Firms, Platforms, Ecosystems, and Industries",Trento, 9-10th February 2023

By Giovanni Battista Dagnino posted 12-17-2022
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FIFTH DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE ---CALL FOR PAPERS-- Digital Spaces: Firms, Platforms, Ecosystems, and Industries University of Trento Department of Economics and Management Via Inama 5 – 38122 Trento Thursday 9 th and Friday 10 th February 2023 Submission deadline: 16 th January 2023 Email your contribution to: digitaltran@lumsa.it Organizing Committee Andrea Caputo, University of Trento Giovanni Battista Dagnino, University of Rome LUMSA Alberto Nucciarelli, University of Trento Erica Santini, University of Trento Scientific Committee Paolo Aversa, Bayes Business School, City University ...
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The studENT - Navigating a PhD in Entrepreneurship

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 11-13-2022
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Navigating a PhD in Entrepreneurship (post on behalf of @Sai Kalvapalle , ENT Division PhD representative) Hello readers! My name is Sai Kalvapalle, and I am the new ENT division PhD representative, which puts me in the amazing position of writing bi-monthly blog posts for what I hope is a captive audience. With these blog posts, I aim to provide a student perspective into topics of interest for the entrepreneurship community. The beauty of such a community, I find, is how diverse, cross-disciplinary, and strong the scholarship is, both theoretically and empirically. Plus, we have the added advantage of being inspired everyday by how entrepreneurs ...
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Research Highlights: Why do Barefoot Entrepreneurs Stay Poor?

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 10-19-2022
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Why do Barefoot Entrepreneurs Stay Poor? (posted on behalf of @Tobias Pret and @Aviel Cogan) Entrepreneurship has long been recognized as a route out of poverty and a means to challenge the status quo. However, within the global south, research has shown that barefoot entrepreneurs, who are marginalized and socially excluded, often remain impoverished despite their successful efforts to pursue entrepreneurial activities and change institutions. While prior studies have explored the creative approaches that such individuals adopt to overcome potential barriers, little is known about the forces and actors that work to prevent barefoot entrepreneurs ...
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Women's Entrepreneurship Event at FIsk University

By R. Duncan Pelly posted 10-17-2022
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Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to invite you to Fisk University's first annual Women's Entrepreneurship event. The panel discussion will take place on October 20th from 9-11 am central time. Here is the zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83952844056 I am also including a flyer with additional details. This event is free of charge, and feel free to invite anyone you wish. Best Regards, R. Duncan M. Pelly, Ph.D. Cal Turner Endowed Chair of Business Fisk University dpelly@fisk.edu
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