Jonathan T. Eckhardt- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan T. Eckhardt
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
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August 2002 - present
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Academic theories of entrepreneurship and applied theories of entrepreneurship have historically been siloed. In this article, we connect the Lean Startup, a widely used and applied approach toward entrepreneurship, with selected academic theories of entrepreneurship. In doing so, we clarify the assumptions and terminology within the Lean Startup....
Using data from a large public research university in the United States, we examine the relationship between the characteristics of undergraduate college students’ regional origins and students’ interest in entrepreneurship. We find that several entrepreneurial indicators of students’ regional origins predict students’ entrepreneurial intent and id...
Professor Wright's body of research on Venture Capital (VC) has advanced the field and has facilitated recent research on new sources of financing for start-ups such as crowdfunding and blockchain. In this article, inspired by Professor Wright's pursuit in encouraging new directions in research, we first demonstrate, with an illustrative study on V...
This chapter is a reflection of how Venkataraman’s “The Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurship Research” has influenced the field of entrepreneurship. The theory underlying the original chapter provided the first true theoretical basis for the discipline of entrepreneurship, grounded in Kirzner and Schumpeter. Its two discrete components, opportuni...
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Companies sponsor platform ecosystems as an open innovation strategy to encourage complementors to develop complementary products, services, or technologies that can add value to the platform ecosystem. In this study, we develop and test an information‐based theory of entrepreneurial activity within platform ecosystems. We postulat...
The existence of free technologies is prevalent in a variety of industries from software to design. This study examines the competitive interaction between free and priced technologies. I draw on the literature on economic logics to predict that in general, technologies that are freely shared are likely to stimulate interest and provide useful mark...
Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines and numerous developing schools of thought. It can be difficult for young scholars and even long-time researchers to find their way through the lush garden of ideas we see before us.
The purpose of this book is to map the research terrain of entrepreneursh...
The business model concept is widely used by practicing entrepreneurs and scholarly research on the business model concept has made contributions to the management literature. This essay links the business model literature to the growing work on the individual-opportunity nexuswhich is a developing scholarly framework in entrepreneurship. Three pot...
A review is presented of two articles in this issue, "A Narrative Perspective on Entrepreneurial Opportunities" by R. Garud and A. P. Giuliani and "Epistemology, Opportunities, and Entrepreneurship: Comments on Venkataraman et al. (2012) and Shane (2012)" by S. A. Alvarez and J. B. Barney.
This study uses employment data to examine why some industries host more new high-growth firms than others. Using a unique data base of 201 industries over a 15-year period, we find that increases in the proportion of employment of scientists and engineers in industries are positively associated with counts of fast-growing new firms; however, we do...
This chapter extends and elaborates the individual-opportunity nexus framework on entrepreneurship. First, the chapter discusses
in detail the existence of entrepreneurial opportunities, and the processes of opportunity discovery and exploitation. Second,
the chapter describes several typologies of opportunities. Third, the chapter discusses the im...
This paper utilizes an understudied but often utilized aspect of initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary shares, to examine whether the knowledge conditions of firms give rise to agency problems that limit the ability of founders and venture capitalists to sell equity at IPO. In an analysis of 2,190 IPOs spanning from 1992 through 2002, we find...
This article examines the population level implications of microlevel theories of entrepreneurship. The actions of those who seek to organize opportunities, as well as the hurdles that they must overcome to successfully exploit them, give rise to an evolutionary multistage selection process. The article indicates that the consideration of selection...
Venture capitalists that specialize in providing funds to privately held firms generate their greatest returns from firms that go public. However, we argue that the technology regime of an industry affects the extent of knowledge asymmetries between different types of owners and subsequently the mode of exit for venture capitalists. More specifical...
Considering significant reasons why some newventures are more likely than others to receive capital from external sources,it isargued that new venture finance follows a pattern of multistage selection over time. Using a sample of the life stories of 221 of new Swedish ventures in 1998, the venture financing process is analyzed from the perspectives...
This article extends and elaborates the perspective on entrepreneurship articulated by Shane and Venkataraman (2000) and Venkataraman (1997) by explaining in more detail the role of opportunities in the entrepreneurial process. In particular, the article explains the importance of examining entrepreneurship through a disequilibrium framework that f...
This article extends and elaborates the perspective on entrepreneurship articulated by Shane and Venkataraman (2000) and Venkataraman (1997) by explaining in more detail the role of opportunities in the entrepreneurial process. In particular, the article explains the importance of examining entrepreneurship through a disequilibrium framework that f...
