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PhD (Stockholm School of Economics)
Professor Per Davidsson the Talbot Family Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE) in the QUT Business School (Management). Per is especially known for his extensive research on start-up and growth of firms as well as the societal well-being and job creation effects of those activities. He has published over 90 peer reviewed articles in scholarly journals as well as a large number of books, reports, and book chapters. With over 42,000 citations (Google Scholar, April 2022) he is one of the best cited scholars in entrepreneurship globally. He has led several major research programs including the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE), the largest study of business start-ups ever undertaken in Australia. Per was an elected Officer of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for the 2007-12 period and served as its Chair in 2010/11. He has served as Associate Editor for three of the leading scholarly journals in entrepreneurship and currently serves on the editorial boards for several other journals. He is also an award-winning mentor. Several of his disciples have become internationally successful researchers in their own right, and two of them have become Vice Chancellors (Presidents) of universities in their respective home countries.
Research Interests
- External enablers of entrepreneurship
- New venture creation
Additional information
- Davidsson P, (2015) Entrepreneurial opportunities and the entrepreneurship nexus: A re-conceptualization, Journal of Business Venturing, 30 (5), pp. 674-695.
- Davidsson P, Recker J, von Briel F, (2020) External enablement of new venture creation: A framework, Academy of Management Perspectives, 34 (3), pp. 311-332.
- von Briel F, Davidsson P, Recker J, (2018) Digital technologies as external enablers of new venture creation in the IT hardware sector, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42 (1), pp. 47-69.
- Davidsson P, (2016) Researching entrepreneurship: conceptualization and design, 2nd Edition [International Studies in Entrepreneurship, Volume 33], Springer.
- von Briel F, Recker J, Davidsson P, (2018) Not all digital venture ideas are created equal: Implications for venture creation processes, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 27 (4), pp. 278-295.
- Davidsson P, Baker T, Senyard J, (2017) A measure of entrepreneurial bricolage behavior, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 23 (1), pp. 114-135.
- Gruenhagen J, Davidsson P, (2018) Returnee entrepreneurs: Do they all boost emerging economies?, International Review of Entrepreneurship, 16 (4), pp. 455-488.
- Shim J, Davidsson P, (2018) Shorter than we thought: The duration of venture creation processes, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 9, pp. 10-16.
- Senyard J, Baker T, Steffens P, Davidsson P, (2014) Bricolage as a path to innovativeness for resource-constrained new firms, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31 (2), pp. 211-230.
- Davidsson P, Gordon S, (2016) Much ado about nothing? The surprising persistence of nascent entrepreneurs through macroeconomic crisis, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (4), pp. 915-941.
- Title
- Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0666616
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Organizational Emergence; Start up process; Multidisciplinary
- Title
- Firm Early Development and Performance (FEDP): A Panel Study
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0776845
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Organizational Emergence; Multidisciplinary; Start up Process
- Title
- Pursuing the right opportunities: the actor-opportunity nexus and new venture performance
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP130100415
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- Title
- What Facilitates or Hinders the Discovery and Exploitation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities? A Systematic Comparison of the Independent and Corporate Contexts
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1096477
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Opportunity Discovery and Exploitation; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation
- Bricolage and Early Stage Firm Performance (2015)
- Business Planning in Emerging Firms: Uses & Effects (2014)
- Externally Oriented Capabilities and Corporate Entrepreneurship: Institutional and Managerial Contingencies (2014)
- Dimensions of the Venture Creation Process: Amount, dynamics, and sequences of action in nascent entrepreneurship (2012)
- Exploring the entrepreneur's pivotal role: How creator capital affects organizational outcomes and underpins self-employment persistence (2012)
- The Role of Idea Novelty and Relatedness in Nascent Ventures (2011)
- Celebrity entrepreneurship and celebrity endorsement: Similarities, differences, and the effect of deeper engagement (2010)
- Growth through Internationalization: A Knowledge Perspective on SMEs (2008)
- Creating New Ventures: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Nascent Venturing Process (2004)
- Entrepreneurial Decision-making: Individuals, Tasks and Cognitions (2004)