Dr Rene Bakker has had great publication success with two articles. “Pull the Plug or take the Plunge: Multiple Opportunities and the Speed of Venturing Decisions in the Australian Mining Industry” (co-authored with ACE Adjunct Professor Dean Shepherd) was published online in July by the Academy of Management Journal. This was followed up in September by his sole-authored article Stepping in and stepping out: Strategic alliance partner reconfiguration and the unplanned termination of complex projects—also from Rene’s large-scale study of Australian mining—appearing in the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). A more practice-oriented report on the same topic was highlighted in our previous newsletter.
These successes come on the back of Rene’s article in Organization Science last year, and fellow Dutch ACE researcher Henri Burgers recent article in SMJ, which we presented in the previous newsletter. This means ACE research has been very well represented lately in the most prestigious scholarly journals in mainstream Management.
In the previous newsletter we could also report three 2015 articles in the leading journals in Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (ETP). One of these, Per Davidsson’s Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: A re-conceptualization is currently the 4th most downloaded JBV article, topped only by two recent articles on the hot topic of crowdfunding and one “classic: from 1997.