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Dr David Johnson's Outputs (17)

Please, hurry up! Leveraging narratives to speed up the mobilization of resources for entrepreneurial ventures (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Geiger, M., Gianiodis, P., & Bock, A. (in press). Please, hurry up! Leveraging narratives to speed up the mobilization of resources for entrepreneurial ventures. Academy of Management Perspectives,

Narratives are important facilitators of resource mobilization. Specifically, entrepreneurs and ventures utilize narratives to persuade stakeholders to part with resources to support innovative activities and entrepreneurial action. We investigate th... Read More about Please, hurry up! Leveraging narratives to speed up the mobilization of resources for entrepreneurial ventures.

Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, D. (2024). Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.10640abstract

Secrecy shapes both behavior and interactions within organizations, emphasizing that secrecy is much more than a static tactic of information concealment but is instead a social process that is at the heart of the microfoundations of organizations. W... Read More about Institutional Work in Freemasonry: Secrecy and Masonic Ritual.

Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes (2024)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Ao, J., Bock, A. J., & Schlegel, V. (2024). Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.10620abstract

Academic-industry engagement, such as contract research, facilitates the development of university-centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs). Research implies that the language utilized within contract research proposals is critical in determining... Read More about Academic-Industry Engagement: The Role of Machine Learning in Predicting Contract Research Outcomes.

From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (2022)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Gianiodis, P. T., Harrison, R. T., & Bock, A. J. (2023). From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems. R&D Management, 53(1), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1111/radm.12535

The commercialization of scientific discoveries within the university-industry nexus is multifaceted and complex, characterized by dynamic interactions between multiple agents, organizations, and institutions. These interactions support a university-... Read More about From laboratory to clinic: science commercialization within university‐centered entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Interpretation of successful and failed events in entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty (2021)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Bock, A. J., & Thompson, A. (2022). Interpretation of successful and failed events in entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty. International Small Business Journal, 40(7), 845-874. https://doi.org/10.1177/02662426211056303

Event interpretation and acknowledgement drive behaviour and identity formation in organisations. Extant studies exploring this link have focused on large, stable organisations. We extend these studies to entrepreneurial contexts where individual beh... Read More about Interpretation of successful and failed events in entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty.

Entrepreneurial dynamism and the built environment in the evolution of university entrepreneurial ecosystems (2019)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Bock, A. J., & George, G. (2019). Entrepreneurial dynamism and the built environment in the evolution of university entrepreneurial ecosystems. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(4), 941-959. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz034

University-centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs) are complex webs of entrepreneurs, researchers, institutional support structures, and the built environment. We study the relationship between the built environment and the dynamism of the behavi... Read More about Entrepreneurial dynamism and the built environment in the evolution of university entrepreneurial ecosystems.