ACE becomes a popular visiting place for Northern Hemisphere scholars over our summer period! We are told, that it’s not just escaping from the northern hemisphere winter that makes us such an attractive place to visit!
The past three months have seen the following people visit us:
- Sara Carter – Head of Department, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship. Associate Dean (Research Enhancement), Strathclyde Business School. Sara’s research focuses on entrepreneurship and the small firms sector. She is currently developing a new research theme which explores entrepreneurial rewards and lifestyles from a household consumption perspective. Sara has experience from editor roles at Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice and International Small Business Journal.
- Johan Wiklund – Professor of Entrepreneurship, Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University. Johan’s research interests include small business growth, the decision to be self-employed, new venture creation, and corporate entrepreneurship. Johan recently was awarded recipient of 2010 IDEA Award in Research Promise from the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division for “Top Management Team Characteristics and New Venture,” (with S. Zahra).
- Dean Shepherd – Dean is the Randall L Tobias Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of QUT Businesses School where he closely works with The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research. Dean is an Australian who received his PhD from Bond University, and is now one of the most published and sought after entrepreneurship researchers in the world. He is also the editor of one of the leading scholarly journals in the entrepreneurship field, the Journal of Business Venturing.
- Martin Senderovitz – is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. The primary research interests are entrepreneurial management, bricolage, effectuation and causation, strategic thinking and management of growth in SMEs and gazelles. Martin has more than ten years experience of teaching/lecturing in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour and Business Negotiation. Eight years of professional experience from the international shipping business and international consultancy work within curriculum development, teacher training and business consultancy in Denmark, Russia, Latvia, Macedonia, Serbia and Ukraine.
- Kim Klyver – Since received his Ph.D. in 2005 Kim has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) from 2006 to 2007, and as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in 2009. He is now a Professor in Entrepreneurship at University of Southern Denmark. Kim has been a member of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project since 2000 and has been part of both the Australian national team and the Danish national team. He has more than 90 publications and has published intensively in international peer-reviewed journals. He has won several awards for his research. Kim’s main interests are entrepreneurial networks, nascent entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship policy, and growth.
- Helene Ahl is professor of Business Administration at the School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University, Sweden. She is internationally known for her research on women’s entrepreneurship, having studied it from many different perspectives – research, policy, and practice. Her current project is a theoretical one – how to understand entrepreneurship from a feminist theoretical perspective and vice versa. These fields have their origins in different sorts of problems and understand reality in different ways, but today’s policy makers often draw on one to legitimate the other, with sometimes confusing results. Ahl has also researched issues such as motivation and empowerment in the context of adult learning. She is currently the research director for Encell, the National Centre for Lifelong Learning in Sweden.
- Jeroen Kraaijenbrink is assistant professor at The Netherlands Institute for Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship (NIKOS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also research manager of the high-tech incubator program VentureLab Twente. He holds an MSc and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management and an MSc in Public Administration from the University of Twente. Jeroen Kraaijenbrink has co-edited a book on knowledge management for small and medium-sized enterprises and has published internationally in various books and journals including Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Journal of Management.
- Alicia Robb is a Senior Research Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation, a Research Associate with the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Visiting Scholar with both the Center for European Economic Research (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)) in Mannheim, Germany and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Her main research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, and entrepreneurship by women and minorities, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Dr. Robb received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked as a staff economist for an economic consulting firm and as an economist for the Office of Economic Research in the Small Business Administration and for the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she is the co-author of Race and Entrepreneurial Success published by MIT Press and is currently working on her second book on entrepreneurial finance and women-owned businesses for Stanford University Press.