Dean Shepherd

165 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0003-4269-1826

University of Notre Dame

Publications

Skin lightening: The process of exploiting colorism-based opportunities — Journal of Business Venturing 2026
Entrepreneurship, Inequality, and Fulfilling the Promise: A Reply to “Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship by Thinking Beyond Limiting Economics Assumptions” — Academy of Management Review 2026
What If We Took Entrepreneurship Practice Seriously? Prescriptive Theorizing From Explanatory Models for Practical Implications — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2026
Awe-Driven Venturing: Identifying and Pursuing Transformational Opportunities — Academy of Management Review 2026
Scale, scope, speed, and customization (pick two): Resourcing drives trade-offs in local compassion venturing effectiveness — Journal of Business Venturing 2026 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2026 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
The Underbelly of Entrepreneurship: A Multilevel Perspective of Destructive Entrepreneurship — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2026
A Promise Not (Yet) Fulfilled: Entrepreneurship, Opportunity Underexploitation, and the Reproduction of Inequality via Consumer Markets — Academy of Management Review 2026
Systemizing Entrepreneurial Metacognition: Thinking About the Past and Future — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2026
What If We Are the WEIRD Ones? A Call (and Roadmap) for More Non-WEIRD Entrepreneurship Research — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2025
Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2025
A listening model of venture growth: entrepreneurs' listening abilities and ventures' listening capabilities — Journal of Business Venturing 2025
An Attractiveness Bias? How Women Entrepreneurs’ Physical Appearance Affects Men Investors — Journal of Management 2025
Paddling Against the Tide: The Micro-Level Strategies Entrepreneurs Employ to Resist Endemic Corruption in Tanzania — Journal of Management 2025
What About Me? An Essay on Creating Nonprofit Ventures — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2025
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2025
A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance — Journal of Business Ethics 2024
On the Edge of Destruction: An Impaired-Regulation Model of Destructive Entrepreneurial Action — Journal of Management 2024
Grounding Business Models: Cognition, Boundary Objects, and Business Model Change — Academy of Management Review 2023
Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2023
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2023
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media — Journal of Business Venturing 2023
A Racialized View of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Proposal for Future Research — Academy of Management Annals 2023 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Specialists, Generalists, or Both? Founders’ Multidimensional Breadth of Experience and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ Fundraising at IPO — Organization Science 2023
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: A Meta-Analysis of CEO Overconfidence, Strategic Risk Taking, and Performance — Journal of Management 2023
A founding-team model of creating a venture's culture — Journal of Business Venturing 2023
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries — Journal of Business Venturing 2023
Women's entrepreneurship and well-being at the base of the pyramid — Journal of Business Venturing 2022
A social model of opportunity development: Building and engaging communities of inquiry — Journal of Business Venturing 2022
Intersectionality in Intractable Dirty Work: How Mumbai Ragpickers Make Meaning of Their Work and Lives — Academy of Management Journal 2022
We Cannot Direct the Wind, but We Can Adjust the Sails: Prosocial Ventures’ Responses to Potential Resource Threats — Organization Science 2022
Organizing the Exploitation of Vulnerable People: A Qualitative Assessment of Human Trafficking — Journal of Management 2022
A Call for Research on the Scaling of Organizations and the Scaling of Social Impact — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2022
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurs’ Creativity: Investigating How and When Entrepreneurs’ Creativity Increases the Favorability of Potential Opportunities That Harm Nature — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2022
Machines augmenting entrepreneurs: Opportunities (and threats) at the Nexus of artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship — Journal of Business Venturing 2022
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA — Journal of Business Venturing 2022
Bounding and Binding: Trajectories of Community-Organization Emergence Following a Major Disruption — Organization Science 2021
Rallying the Troops and Defending against Sanctions: A Government Body Breaking Decision-Making Rules to Fund Entrepreneurial Ventures — Journal of Management Studies 2021
Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2021
The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic–Practitioner Divide — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2021
Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: The Importance of Health and Children’s Education for Slum Entrepreneurs — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2021
Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda — Journal of Management 2021
A multi-motivational general model of entrepreneurial intention — Journal of Business Venturing 2021
Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees? — Journal of Business Venturing 2021
When is Effort Contagious in New Venture Management Teams? Understanding the Contingencies of Social Motivation Theory — Journal of Management Studies 2020
The Surprising Duality of Jugaad: Low Firm Growth and High Inclusive Growth — Journal of Management Studies 2020
Perceived project transition support and employees' assessments of entrepreneurial project performance — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
Simple Rules, Templates, and Heuristics! An Attempt to Deconstruct the Craft of Writing an Entrepreneurship Paper — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2020
We’re All in the Same Boat: A Collective Model of Preserving and Accessing Nature-Based Opportunities — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2020
How to circumvent adversity? Refugee-entrepreneurs' resilience in the face of substantial and persistent adversity — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
The dualistic regulatory effect of passion on the relationship between fear of failure and negative affect: Insights from facial expression analysis — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
Organizational and Management Theorizing Using Experiment-Based Entrepreneurship Research: Covered Terrain and New Frontiers — Academy of Management Annals 2020
Short leash or long leash? Parenting style, initial strategic clarity, and the development of venture learning proficiency — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis for a finer-grained understanding of entrepreneurship — Journal of Business Venturing 2020
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Founder Power and Exit via Initial Public Offering — Academy of Management Journal 2020
COVID 19 and Entrepreneurship: Time to Pivot? — Journal of Management Studies 2020
Images of Entrepreneurship: Exploring Root Metaphors and Expanding Upon Them — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2019
What Are We Explaining? A Review and Agenda on Initiating, Engaging, Performing, and Contextualizing Entrepreneurship — Journal of Management 2019
Violence against women and new venture initiation with microcredit: Self-efficacy, fear of failure, and disaster experiences — Journal of Business Venturing 2019
Exoskeletons, entrepreneurs, and communities: A model of co-constructing a potential opportunity — Journal of Business Venturing 2019
Why Didn’t You Tell Me? Voicing Concerns Over Objective Information About a Project’s Flaws — Journal of Management 2019
Accelerating strategic fit or venture emergence: Different paths adopted by corporate accelerators — Journal of Business Venturing 2019
A Matter of Life or Death: How Extreme Context Research Matters for Management and Organization Studies — Academy of Management Annals 2018 (name-matched, not ORCID-linked)
Hitting Rock Bottom After Job Loss: Bouncing Back to Create a New Positive Work Identity — Academy of Management Review 2018
To the Rescue!? Brokering a Rapid, Scaled and Customized Compassionate Response to Suffering after Disaster — Journal of Management Studies 2018
The Interdependence of Planning and Learning among Internal Corporate Ventures — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2018
Theory Building — Journal of Management 2017
Is that an opportunity? An attention model of top managers' opportunity beliefs for strategic action — Strategic Management Journal 2017
If you Fight with Me, I'll Get Mad! A Social Model of Entrepreneurial Affect — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2017
Pull the Plug or Take the Plunge: Multiple Opportunities and the Speed of Venturing Decisions in the Australian Mining Industry — Academy of Management Journal 2017
Organizational Response to Adversity: Fusing Crisis Management and Resilience Research Streams — Academy of Management Annals 2017
Victim entrepreneurs doing well by doing good: Venture creation and well-being in the aftermath of a resource shock — Journal of Business Venturing 2016
Making the Most of Failure Experiences: Exploring the Relationship between Business Failure and the Identification of Business Opportunities — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2016
Building Resilience or Providing Sustenance: Different Paths of Emergent Ventures in the Aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake — Academy of Management Journal 2016
Different Strokes for Different Folks: Entrepreneurial Narratives of Emotion, Cognition, and Making Sense of Business Failure — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2015
What do you have to Say about That? Performance Events and Narratives’ Positive and Negative Emotional Content — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2015
Value proposition evolution and the performance of internal corporate ventures — Journal of Business Venturing 2015
“Bouncing Back” from a Loss: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Emotions, and Failure Narratives — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2015
Harsh Evaluations of Entrepreneurs Who Fail: The Role of Sexual Orientation, Use of Environmentally Friendly Technologies, and Observers' Perspective Taking — Journal of Management Studies 2015
Party On! A call for entrepreneurship research that is more interactive, activity based, cognitively hot, compassionate, and prosocial — Journal of Business Venturing 2015
The Use of Anthropomorphizing as a Tool for Generating Organizational Theories — Academy of Management Annals 2015
Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making — Journal of Management 2015
How Does Project Termination Impact Project Team Members? Rapid Termination, ‘Creeping Death’, and Learning from Failure — Journal of Management Studies 2014
Local Venturing as Compassion Organizing in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster: The Role of Localness and Community in Reducing Suffering — Journal of Management Studies 2014
“I Care about Nature, but …”: Disengaging Values in Assessing Opportunities that Cause Harm — Academy of Management Journal 2013
The importance of the first relationship: The ongoing influence of initial network on future status — Strategic Management Journal 2013
Operational Entrepreneurship: How Operations Management Research Can Advance Entrepreneurship — Production and Operations Management 2013
Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and Entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2013
Cognitive Adaptability and an Entrepreneurial Task: The Role of Metacognitive Ability and Feedback — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2012
Confirmatory search as a useful heuristic? testing the veracity of entrepreneurial conjectures — Journal of Business Venturing 2012
Exploring the Heart: Entrepreneurial Emotion is a Hot Topic — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2012
Capability Development and Decision Incongruence in Strategic Opportunity Pursuit — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2012
Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus — Academy of Management Journal 2012
Erratic strategic decisions: when and why managers are inconsistent in strategic decision making — Strategic Management Journal 2011
Where to from Here? EO-as-Experimentation, Failure, and Distribution of Outcomes — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2011
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2011
The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What is to be Sustained” with “What is to be Developed” — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2011
Multilevel Entrepreneurship Research: Opportunities for Studying Entrepreneurial Decision Making — Journal of Management 2011
The Importance of Slack for New Organizations Facing ‘Tough’ Environments — Journal of Management Studies 2011
Negative emotions of an entrepreneurial career: Self-employment and regulatory coping behaviors — Journal of Business Venturing 2011

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