Dean A. Shepherd

University of Notre Dame | ND · Mendoza College of Business

This review of the entrepreneurial metacognition literature systematizes the existing literature. Metacognition is vital for entrepreneurs to sense, act, and mobilize cognitive resources under uncertainty. Despite the rapidly growing stream of metacognitive research in entrepreneurship, indicating that the topic is promising and emerging, these bit...

Recent psychology research has uncovered the transformative power of awe in spurring change. Awe emotional experiences induce change through two functions: the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that challenges existing worldviews and a sense of needing to adjust one's mental framework to accommodate the vastness. This paper introdu...

Although much has been made about heroic entrepreneurs, there is recent interest in less glamorous forms of entrepreneurship. The least glamorous is dirty entrepreneurship. In this study, we used an inductive approach and a sample of entrepreneurs engaged in dirty plastic recycling businesses to develop an intersectionality model of entrepreneurs'...

While we understand the importance of entrepreneurs listening to stakeholders, we lack a sufficient theory-driven understanding of why some entrepreneurs and their ventures can listen to their stakeholders more effectively than others. We offer a listening model of venture growth based on listening theories and the literatures on new ventures and c...

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这本开放获取的书籍是你通往创业成功的入场券！学习实用技巧，让你的思维更像创业者、发现机遇、建立关键关系、讲述引人入胜的故事，以及发展你的企业。发现在充满活力的创业世界中克服挑战、管理压力和做出决策的秘诀。无论你是经验丰富的创业者，还是刚刚起步，这些简单明了的工具都将引导你在复杂的创业环境中取得成功。告别令人不知所措的决定，向打造创业梦想的简化之路问好！

このオープンアクセス・ブックは、起業家として成功するためのチケットです！起業家のように考え、チャンスを見つけ、重要な人間関係を築き、説得力のあるストーリーを語り、ベンチャー企業を成長させるための実践的なヒントを学ぶことができます。起業というダイナミックな世界で、困難を克服し、ストレスを管理し、決断を下す秘訣を発見してください。経験豊富な起業家も、起業したばかりの起業家も、これらのわかりやすいツールが、複雑な起業の世界で成功するための道しるべとなる。複雑な決断を迫られることなく、起業家としての夢を実現するためのシンプルな道しるべを手に入れよう！

Este livro de acesso livre é sua passagem para o sucesso empresarial! Aprenda dicas práticas para pensar mais como um empreendedor, identificar oportunidades, construir relacionamentos importantes, contar histórias convincentes e fazer seu empreendimento crescer. Descubra os segredos para superar desafios, administrar o estresse e tomar decisões no...

이 오픈 액세스 책은 기업가적 성공을 위한 티켓입니다! 기업가처럼 생각하고, 기회를 포착하고, 중요한 관계를 구축하고, 매력적인 스토리를 전달하고, 벤처를 성장시키기 위한 실용적인 팁을 알아보세요. 역동적인 기업가 정신의 세계에서 도전을 극복하고, 스트레스를 관리하고, 의사 결정을 내리는 비결을 알아보세요. 노련한 기업가든 이제 막 시작한 기업가든, 이 간단한 도구는 복잡한 창업 환경에서 성공으로 이끄는 길잡이가 되어줄 것입니다. 복잡한 의사 결정은 이제 그만하고 창업가의 꿈을 이루기 위한 간소화된 길을 만나보세요!

Αυτό το βιβλίο ανοικτής πρόσβασης είναι το εισιτήριό σας για την επιχειρηματική επιτυχία! Μάθετε πρακτικές συμβουλές για να σκέφτεστε περισσότερο σαν επιχειρηματίας, να εντοπίζετε ευκαιρίες, να χτίζετε βασικές σχέσεις, να λέτε συναρπαστικές ιστορίες και να αναπτύσσετε το εγχείρημά σας. Ανακαλύψτε τα μυστικά για να ξεπερνάτε τις προκλήσεις, να διαχε...

Denna bok med öppen tillgång är din biljett till entreprenörsframgång! Lär dig praktiska tips för att tänka mer som en entreprenör, upptäcka möjligheter, bygga viktiga relationer, berätta övertygande historier och få ditt företag att växa. Upptäck hemligheterna bakom hur du övervinner utmaningar, hanterar stress och fattar beslut i entreprenörskape...

이 오픈 액세스 책은 기업가적 성공을 위한 티켓입니다! 기업가처럼 생각하고, 기회를 포착하고, 중요한 관계를 구축하고, 매력적인 스토리를 전달하고, 벤처를 성장시키기 위한 실용적인 팁을 알아보세요. 역동적인 기업가 정신의 세계에서 도전을 극복하고, 스트레스를 관리하고, 의사 결정을 내리는 비결을 알아보세요. 노련한 기업가든 이제 막 시작한 기업가든, 이 간단한 도구는 복잡한 창업 환경에서 성공으로 이끄는 길잡이가 되어줄 것입니다. 복잡한 의사 결정은 이제 그만하고 창업가의 꿈을 이루기 위한 간소화된 길을 만나보세요!

Αυτό το βιβλίο ανοικτής πρόσβασης είναι το εισιτήριό σας για την επιχειρηματική επιτυχία! Μάθετε πρακτικές συμβουλές για να σκέφτεστε περισσότερο σαν επιχειρηματίας, να εντοπίζετε ευκαιρίες, να χτίζετε βασικές σχέσεις, να λέτε συναρπαστικές ιστορίες και να αναπτύσσετε το εγχείρημά σας. Ανακαλύψτε τα μυστικά για να ξεπερνάτε τις προκλήσεις, να διαχε...

Ce livre en libre accès est votre ticket pour la réussite entrepreneuriale ! Apprenez des conseils pratiques pour penser davantage comme un entrepreneur, repérer les opportunités, établir des relations clés, raconter des histoires convaincantes et développer votre entreprise. Découvrez les secrets pour surmonter les défis, gérer le stress et prendr...

Tämä avoin kirja on lippusi yrittäjyyden menestykseen! Opi käytännön vinkkejä, joiden avulla voit ajatella enemmän yrittäjänä, havaita mahdollisuuksia, rakentaa keskeisiä suhteita, kertoa vakuuttavia tarinoita ja kasvattaa yritystäsi. Löydä salaisuudet haasteiden voittamiseen, stressin hallintaan ja päätöksentekoon yrittäjyyden dynaamisessa maailma...

Este libro de libre acceso es su billete hacia el éxito empresarial. Aprenda consejos prácticos para pensar más como un emprendedor, detectar oportunidades, establecer relaciones clave, contar historias convincentes y hacer crecer su empresa. Descubra los secretos para superar los retos, gestionar el estrés y tomar decisiones en el dinámico mundo d...

Dieses frei zugängliche Buch ist Ihre Eintrittskarte zum unternehmerischen Erfolg! Lernen Sie praktische Tipps, um wie ein Unternehmer zu denken, Chancen zu erkennen, wichtige Beziehungen aufzubauen, überzeugende Geschichten zu erzählen und Ihr Unternehmen wachsen zu lassen. Entdecken Sie die Geheimnisse der Bewältigung von Herausforderungen, der S...

Bu açık erişimli kitap girişimcilikte başarıya giden biletiniz! Bir girişimci gibi düşünmek, fırsatları tespit etmek, önemli ilişkiler kurmak, ilgi çekici hikayeler anlatmak ve girişiminizi büyütmek için pratik ipuçları öğrenin. Girişimciliğin dinamik dünyasında zorlukların üstesinden gelmenin, stresi yönetmenin ve karar vermenin sırlarını keşfedin...

Buku akses terbuka ini adalah tiket Anda menuju kesuksesan wirausaha! Pelajari kiat-kiat praktis untuk berpikir seperti seorang wirausahawan, menemukan peluang, membangun hubungan yang penting, menceritakan kisah-kisah yang menarik, dan mengembangkan usaha Anda. Temukan rahasia untuk mengatasi tantangan, mengelola stres, dan membuat keputusan dalam...

这本开放获取的书籍是你通往创业成功的入场券！学习实用技巧，让你的思维更像创业者、发现机遇、建立关键关系、讲述引人入胜的故事，以及发展你的企业。发现在充满活力的创业世界中克服挑战、管理压力和做出决策的秘诀。无论你是经验丰富的创业者，还是刚刚起步，这些简单明了的工具都将引导你在复杂的创业环境中取得成功。告别令人不知所措的决定，向打造创业梦想的简化之路问好！

Este livro de acesso livre é o seu bilhete para o sucesso empresarial! Aprenda dicas práticas para pensar mais como um empreendedor, detetar oportunidades, construir relações importantes, contar histórias convincentes e fazer crescer o seu empreendimento. Descubra os segredos para ultrapassar desafios, gerir o stress e tomar decisões no mundo dinâm...

Dit open access boek is jouw ticket naar succes als ondernemer! Leer praktische tips om meer als een ondernemer te denken, kansen te zien, belangrijke relaties op te bouwen, overtuigende verhalen te vertellen en je onderneming te laten groeien. Ontdek de geheimen van het overwinnen van uitdagingen, het omgaan met stress en het nemen van beslissinge...

Questo libro ad accesso libero è il vostro biglietto per il successo imprenditoriale! Imparate i consigli pratici per pensare come un imprenditore, individuare le opportunità, costruire relazioni chiave, raccontare storie avvincenti e far crescere la vostra impresa. Scoprite i segreti per superare le sfide, gestire lo stress e prendere decisioni ne...

This paper explores when and how entrepreneurs who operate new organizations in environments where corruption is endemic can resist it. Despite the continued scholarly interest in corruption, anticorruption efforts by micro, small, and medium enterprises have been largely overlooked. Instead, studies have focused on the intraorganizational actions...

This chapter offers simple rules for engaging external stakeholders. These simple rules are: build a circle of trusted advisors and listen to them; don’t journey alone, involve others because entrepreneurship needs to be a social endeavor; when it comes to building relationships, do not always go for what is easy and natural; engage others in dialo...

This chapter offers simple rules for riding the emotional roller coaster. These simple rules are: Don’t ignore your negative emotions; running a venture can be exhausting, so make sure you manage your entrepreneurial energy right; follow your entrepreneurial passion; build your emotional intelligence; pursue moderate stress at work to enhance life;...

This chapter offers simple rules for recognizing opportunities. These simple rules include when others constrain your career, look for an entrepreneurial career; invest effort to build expertise from your experience; don't be fooled by your experience; use entrepreneurship as a channel to express yourself; to design value, look for disruptions; mot...

This chapter offers simple rules for developing the social aspects of your venture. These simple rules are: do amazing things with your venture to help those suffering; align your motivation with the type of venture you want to build; be sensitive to the needs of your venture members; and don’t burn out in pursuing your venture’s social mission.

This chapter offers simple rules for market selection and entry. These simple rules are: identify a broad opportunity set from which to choose the “best” one; think like a scientist to generate novel business models or opportunities; with resource constraints, embrace the lean startup approach; create, use, and adapt a community of inquiry to evalu...

This chapter offers simple rules for entrepreneurial decision-making. These simple rules are: entry decisions are complex, so time them right; if you think you do not have implicit biases, you are probably wrong (we all do), so set up procedures to circumvent them; reduce your overconfidence in making predictions; while slack is nice, necessity can...

This chapter offers simple rules for growing your venture. These simple rules are: growth is a challenging journey, be well prepared; transform your venture multiple times; build your cultural intelligence to enter foreign markets; to make your organization entrepreneurial, enhance its capacity to learn; and formalize some of your personality to bu...

This chapter offers simple rules for exiting your entrepreneurial venture. These simple rules are: if you want to end your entrepreneurial journey, consider multiple possibilities; and to keep your venture alive after exit, manage the succession process right.

This chapter offers simple rules for managing employees. These simple rules are: consider the people you can attract to your startup; you will shape your employees, but they will also shape you; build a culture in which your employees thrive; and if you want to be entrepreneurial, you need to be a failure-tolerant leader.

This chapter offers simple rules for managing mistakes and failures. These simple rules are: to be successful, you need to be prepared for and manage failure; yes, you can learn more from your failures than your successes, but it can be more challenging than you think; you cannot choose to be error free, you need to choose which error you will regr...

This chapter offers simple rules for working with cofounders. These simple rules are: don’t be a fool, don’t rush in; make sure to invest time in setting up your founding team; if you want your founding team to function well, nurture it; make sure your team can manage team issues; and your team may not stay together, but a break up does not have to...

Driving Route 66 is an adventure. Going on the entrepreneurial journey is an adventure. Just as simple traffic rules help you navigate perhaps the most famous road in the world, we hope the simple rules offered in this book prevent you from getting lost along your entrepreneurial journey but instead reach the successful outcome you want to achieve.

This chapter offers simple rule for developing plans and strategies. These simple rules are: reflect on your personal goals when setting an entrepreneurial strategy; think about your venture’s future and your future in it; when facing uncertainty, look for ways to capitalize on learning (stage gates won’t cut it); simplify your rules as the environ...

Women founders frequently appear to encounter varied and often negatively biased decisions from investors. Our study builds on the theoretical and practical interest in understanding whether and how biases against women entrepreneurs are attributed to men investors’ cognitive and physiological (i.e., hormonal) responses to the women’s physical appe...

Although we know a great deal about creating ventures that can generate financial wealth for entrepreneurs, we have largely excluded, ignored or "danced around" the creation of nonprofit ventures (with some important exceptions). We propose research to explore how initiating, engaging, and performing nonprofit venturing may differ from for-profit v...

Social entrepreneurs strive to alleviate the suffering of people in need (targets). However, helping others may also cause social-venturing fatigue—mental or physical exhaustion that severely diminishes engagement in social-venturing activities. Understanding the development and outcomes of social-venturing fatigue is important because it can harm...

This meta-analysis of 31 studies over 20 years advances our understanding of the gender gap in entrepreneurial bank finance. Findings from previous research on the relationship between entrepreneurs’ gender and bank financing are mixed, which suggests the need to pay particular attention to entrepreneurs’ social context. In this study, we develop a...

This article theorizes and empirically investigates how status and provocative language influence audience engagement with new-venture posts on social media platforms. Using venture capital funding as a status proxy, we analyzed 369,142 Twitter posts by 268 new ventures. We found that status (1) increases engagement with ventures' tweets, and that...

Empathy is a primary driver of social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial action. However, empathizing individuals can arrive at different conclusions about what targets need. This variance in entrepreneurs’ empathy for targets is important because it will help explain the type of interventions they initiate to help targets and the production of a...

While several editors and scholars have shared critical insights into the craft of writing a theory paper, there is an essential aspect of publishing a theory paper that is less understood: the process by which expert reviewers and authors engage in the review process, which has a significant influence on theory. We examine critiques and responses...

We offer lean scholarship as an approach to developing a portfolio of high-quality, high-impact papers. Indeed, our scholarly identity is typically generated and reinforced by our portfolio of published papers than by any one paper. By lean scholarship, we refer to iterative experimentation, stakeholder engagement, and collective learning in genera...

The future of the field of entrepreneurship is bright primarily because of the many research opportunities to make a difference. However, as scholars, how can we find these opportunities and choose the ones most likely to contribute to the literature? This essay introduces me-search as a tool for blazing new trails in entrepreneurship research. Me-...

Despite admonishments that anthropomorphizing represents a serious error in scientific thinking, we show that anthropomorphizing has been a critically important tool for developing influential theories in entrepreneurship. Analyzing the literatures related to an organization’s entrepreneurial orientationand organizational knowledge reveals how scho...

There are several excellent “From the Editor” notes, but in this chapter, we offer something more hands-on with a perspective directly applicable to entrepreneurship. We believe that sometimes papers are rejected, not because the research is fundamentally flawed but because authors miss some of the fundamentals of a strong paper. Therefore, this ch...

Building theories is essential for advancing knowledge of entrepreneurship. But it is also a highly challenging task. Although there is a burgeoning literature that offers many theorizing tools, we lack a coherent understanding of how these tools fit together—when to use a particular tool, and which combination of tools can be used in the theorizin...

As many new ventures are started by founding teams, it is these founding teams that likely engage in creating their venture’s culture. We draw on theories of cultural dynamics and the literature on team cognitive diversity to investigate the creation of a new venture’s culture. Specifically, we theorize how a founding team’s cognitive diversity imp...

This article theorizes and empirically investigates how status and provocative language influence audience engagement with new-venture posts on social media platforms. Using venture capital funding as a status proxy, we analyzed 369,142 Twitter posts by 268 new ventures. We found that status (1) increases engagement with ventures’ tweets, and that...

Plain English Summary There are different ways organizations make the most out of a surprising challenge to enhance performance, adjust, and pivot for new opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged organizations in different ways—some experienced near-exponential increases in demand, whereas others saw their entire business evaporate overn...

Entrepreneurial action can be directed toward identifying, generating, and exploiting potential business opportunities that can cause harm to others. Over and above the “rules of the game” of the economic system, we theorize on destructive entrepreneurial actions that result from entrepreneurs’ impaired regulation of their decision making. Specific...

In this chapter—“Entrepreneurs Alleviating Poverty Through Educating Their Children”—we examine the bright-side motivation underlying entrepreneurial action in chronic-adversity contexts. We explore entrepreneurs living in the slums of India, demonstrating that their main motivation for entrepreneurial action is educating their children. In doing s...

Next, this chapter—“Refugee Entrepreneurs Building and Displaying Resilience”—examines how refugees can harness entrepreneurial action to find a positive identity and better life under difficult circumstances. Against a theoretical backdrop comprising resilience, positive psychology, and positive organizational scholarship, we explore the important...

In this chapter—“An Entrepreneurial Process for Exploiting Vulnerable People’s Labor”—we take an even bigger step toward the dark side of entrepreneurial action in response to chronic adversity. In this chapter, we take the perspective of victims to explore a destructive entrepreneurial process that involves multiple actors—namely, that of exploiti...

This chapter—“Corruption as Corporate Entrepreneurship”—continues with the dark side of entrepreneurial action in response to chronic adversity but in the government context. While corruption exists in most countries, it is widespread in the developing world, acting like sand in the wheels of economies and harming the performance of businesses, esp...

Although overconfidence is acknowledged as one of the most common managerial decision-making biases, much uncertainty remains about its implications for firm performance. To resolve this uncertainty, we investigate how and why CEO overconfidence is related to firm performance using meta-analytic techniques on a sample of 199 studies. In particular,...

This chapter—“Women Entrepreneurs Flourishing or Languishing at the Bottom of the Pyramid”—highlights not only the bright side of entrepreneurship (consistent with the previous chapters) but also the potential dark side of entrepreneurship training and venture creation. In particular, this chapter focuses on women entrepreneurs at the base of the p...

This chapter—“Personal Adversity and Justifying Illegal and Costly Entrepreneurial Action”—shifts even more to the dark side of entrepreneurial action in the face of chronic adversity. Specifically, in this chapter, we explore bunkerers—oil thieves—to provide a richer understanding of how individual entrepreneurs interpret their contexts and engage...

This chapter—“Making Do with the Resources at Hand to Improve One’s Life and Others’ Lives”—highlights the bright side of entrepreneurial action in response to chronic adversity. In this chapter, we discuss how most prior research has emphasized the importance of slack resources to explain creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. However, scho...

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to machines that are trained to perform tasks associated with human intelligence, interpret external data, learn from that external data, and use that learning to flexibly adapt to tasks to achieve specific outcomes. This paper briefly explains AI and looks into the future to highlight some of AI's broader and lo...

Plain English Summary Entrepreneurship scholars can form an entrepreneurial mindset to build and manage a portfolio of papers to enhance their research impact. They can do this by creating representations of paper ideas, exploring the viability of those ideas with potential audience members, and either improving the idea for journal publication or...

Given the importance of theorizing about an entrepreneurial phenomenon, we seek to highlight the common challenges of entrepreneurship papers’ theorizing and offer suggestions for how we (as a community of scholars) can address these challenges to develop more robust and impactful entrepreneurship papers to advance the entrepreneurship field. Speci...

Women’s entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid can offer a way out of poverty for families, foster the development of communities, and provide a route to modernizing countries. Yet, we know little about what entrepreneurship means for the well-being of these entrepreneurs. This study investigates the well-being of marginalized women entreprene...

Different streams of research have led to contradictory conclusions about the venture performance implications of founders’ breadth of experience. Although extant empirical studies have explored the performance implications of founders’ breadth of experience at the start-up stage, we focus on the later stage of the initial public offering (IPO). We...

Corruption is prevalent in the developing world, negatively impacting small businesses. While research on corruption has focused on bribery from an economics-system perspective, there has been less research on the role of bribery from a more micro perspective. In this study, we explore bribery from the demand side by anchoring our qualitative, theo...

While entrepreneurship can generate economic and social benefits, it can also be a source of negative outcomes. We need to gain a deeper understanding of how individual entrepreneurs interpret their context and engage in entrepreneurial action that can generate substantial negative outcomes. In this paper we shed light on the entrepreneurial proces...

Focusing on the organizing practices by which vulnerable individuals are exploited for their labor, we build a model that depicts how human traffickers systematically target impoverished girls and women and transform their autonomous objection into unquestioned compliance. Drawing from qualitative interviews with women forced into labor in the sex...

Recent dirty work research has begun to explore intersectionality, attending to how meaning is made at the intersection of multiple sources of taint. This research has shown that individuals often construct both positive and negative meanings, which can be challenging to manage because the meanings people construct require a certain coherence to pr...

DOWLOAD BOOK FREE HERE: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-78935-0 CHAPTER 1: ATTENDING TO THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES Building on a recent study (Shepherd, McMullen, and Ocasio, 2017), this chapter highlights the importance of noticing opportunities as an initial step toward new venture creation. U...

The lean startup framework is one of the most popular contributions in the practitioner-oriented entrepreneurship literature. This chapter builds on a recent paper (Shepherd & Gruber in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice . 10.1177/1042258719899415 , 2020) to highlight new insights into how new ventures are started based on the lean startup framew...

Although scaling is a “hot topic” in the practitioner literature, it has mostly been ignored (at least explicitly) in the academic literature. Building on a recent editorial, this chapter highlights the importance of scaling for new venture growth. Scaling refers to spreading excellence within a venture as it grows (organically or through acquisiti...

We develop and test an overarching model of entrepreneurial intention that includes profit, social impact, and innovation as the three main drivers of entrepreneurial behavior. A holistic model is developed to identify separately the generic intention to be a self-employed entrepreneur from the associated intention to be a specific type of entrepre...

Building on a recent study (Shepherd et al. in Strategic Management Journal 38:626–644, 2017), this chapter highlights the importance of noticingnoticingopportunitiesopportunities as an initial step toward new venture creationnew venture creation. Unsurprisingly, there has been considerable interest in the processes of allocating attentionattention...

The creation of new ventures and growing them into well-established organizations is the key purpose of managing new venturesmanaging new ventures. This chapter explains the 10 most essential subtopics for managing new ventures (Shepherd et al. in Journal of Management 47:11–42, 2021): (1) lead founderfounder, (2) founding teamfounding team, (3) so...

Entrepreneurs can learn about potential opportunitiesopportunitiesthrough socialsocial interactions with communities of inquirycommunity(ies) of inquiry. However, how do entrepreneurs build such communities, and how do they engage community members over timetime to develop their potential opportunities? Building on a recent study of eight new ventu...

Crowdfunding enables the organizing of support for victims of a tragedy from a wide range of sources. While this support can be financial and non-financial, we know relatively little about the non-financial support donors provide. Donors’ words can have substantial positive and negative effects on sufferers; however, donors are also often limited i...

The future of the field of entrepreneurship is bright primarily because of the many research opportunities to make a difference. However, as scholars how can we find these opportunities and choose the ones most likely to contribute to the literature? This essay introduces me-search and a special issue of research-agenda papers from leading scholars...

Drawing on Affective Events Theory and a sample of 112 matched manager-employee dyads involved in failed corporate entrepreneurial projects, we develop and test a model of when and how managerial leadership can foster high employee performance in their subsequent endeavors. Through path analysis modeling, we show that perceptions of supportive mana...

In the context of the humanitarian refugee crisis in Germany, we conducted an 8-month qualitative study of prosocial ventures that emerged during this crisis to build a theory of motivation in prosocial venturing. We identified two venturing paths driven by founders’ distinct motivations. Founders motivated by others’ suffering focused on rescuing...

Business-model research has largely focused on business models as real entities, as cognitive and linguistic schema, and as formal representations. Although research within these themes has made important contributions to the management literature, it has largely ignored the inter-relationship between business models as schemas and business models...

Education is considered one of the most critical human capital investments. But does formal educational attainment "pay off" in terms of job satisfaction? To answer this question, in Study 1 we use a meta-analytic technique to examine the correlation between educational attainment and job satisfaction (k = 74, N = 134,924) and find an effect size c...