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The Process of Freedom in Entrepreneurship and Poverty (2025)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J. (2025). The Process of Freedom in Entrepreneurship and Poverty. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 24, Article e00550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2025.e00550

There has been an expansion of research examining the relationship between poverty and entrepreneurship, but with limited discussion in Journal of Business Venturing Insights over the last 10 years. Understanding how entrepreneurs develop the freedom... Read More about The Process of Freedom in Entrepreneurship and Poverty.

Persuading Academics to Engage with Industry: A Linguistic Approach Utilizing Machine Learning (2025)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Ao, J., Lee, S., Bock, A. J., & Schlegel, V. (2025). Persuading Academics to Engage with Industry: A Linguistic Approach Utilizing Machine Learning. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.11524abstract

Academic-industry engagement, crucial for facilitating the development of university-centered entrepreneurial ecosystems (UCEEs), hinges on the persuading language used in contract research proposals submitted by firms. Successful contract research p... Read More about Persuading Academics to Engage with Industry: A Linguistic Approach Utilizing Machine Learning.

Institutional Maintenance in Freemasonry: The Role of Secretive Masonic Ritual (2025)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., MacKenzie, N., & Chalmers, D. M. (2025). Institutional Maintenance in Freemasonry: The Role of Secretive Masonic Ritual. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2025.11547abstract

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 Maintenance in Freemasonry: The Role of Secretive Masonic Ritual.

Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels (2025)
Journal Article
Plata, G., Scott, S., & Aparicio, S. (online). Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels. Review of Managerial Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-025-00887-w

Social entrepreneurship has been lauded for its positive contributions to global economic and social development goals. Yet, how and in what ways varying institutional environments and economic development levels have spurred social entrepreneurial v... Read More about Fostering an environment for social entrepreneurship: a comparative analysis across economic development levels.

Rural Entrepreneurship Framework for Local Economic and Communal Thriving (2025)
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Kimmitt, J., Munoz, P., & Frias, R. (2025). Rural Entrepreneurship Framework for Local Economic and Communal Thriving. National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise

From a public policy perspective, encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship is regarded as a particularly powerful tool because successful start-ups can help stimulate the economy, create jobs, and sustain communities. This research builds on the... Read More about Rural Entrepreneurship Framework for Local Economic and Communal Thriving.

Please, hurry up! Leveraging narratives to speed up the mobilization of resources for entrepreneurial ventures (2025)
Journal Article
Johnson, D., Geiger, M., Gianiodis, P., & Bock, A. (online). Please, hurry up! Leveraging narratives to speed up the mobilization of resources for entrepreneurial ventures. Academy of Management Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2023.0224

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.

On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation (2025)
Journal Article
Healy, J., Hughes, J., & Donnelly-Cox, G. (online). On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-05975-1

The purpose of this article is to encourage greater reflexivity among social innovation practitioners and researchers about the influence of unconscious biases and assumptions on addressing societal challenges. Drawing on previous research and insigh... Read More about On Addressing Societal Challenges: The Influence of Archetypal Biases on Scaling Social Innovation.

Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management (2024)
Journal Article
Kimmitt, J., & Muñoz, P. (2024). Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management. Organization, 31(7), 1113-1135. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084231196102

Despite long-standing criticisms of the paradigm, New Public Management (NPM) retains a strong influence over organizations in public administration. Social Impact Bonds (SIB) are an outcomes-oriented investment entity which has emerged from NPM with... Read More about Outcomes-based contracts and the hidden turn to public value management.

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.

How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development (2024)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., Farny, S., Kibler, E., & Salmivaara, V. (2024). How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development. Business & Society, 63(8), 1842-1886. https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241255483

Although the simultaneous presence of multiple ambitions is inherent in hybrid venturing, pursuing social and/or environmental missions while securing commercial viability can generate ambivalence among stakeholders. In this study, we draw on the not... Read More about How Founders Harness Tensions in Hybrid Venture Development.

Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context (2024)
Journal Article
Newbery, R., McKague, K., Muñoz, P., & Kimmitt, J. (2025). Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context. British Journal of Management, 36(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12826

This paper proposes and tests a new conceptual framing for franchisee performance that draws on institutional complexity to explore the interaction of corporate, market, and relational logics of performance. Extant research draws on corporate and mar... Read More about Reconceptualizing Franchisee Performance: A Configurational Approach in a Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Context.

When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship (2024)
Journal Article
Muñoz, P., & Gamble, E. (2024). When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36(9-10), 1161-1187. https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2024.2349207

This paper examines how social entrepreneurs construct impact arguments as they begin to assess social impact. We examined the experiences of 68 social entrepreneurs in Chile and discovered that the construction of arguments for the purpose of thinki... Read More about When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship.