Thomas Kenworthy

• University of Windsor

Purpose This research explores project manager (PM) behavior in their professional virtual communities (PVCs), using social identity theory as a theoretical foundation. The purpose is to examine the extent to which PMs seek information on key topics in the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide (PMBoK). Design/methodology/approach A text data...

The study analysis enhances our understanding of the nature of Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) authorship, scholarship globalization, international collaboration activity, research topics and trends, and research funding. Thus the authors expect the findings to be relevant to a variety of stakeholders including doctoral students, juni...

The objective of this research is to enhance our understanding of the nature of Operations and Supply Chain Management (OSCM) scholarship. We focus on five pinnacle journals as sources of leading-edge research and trend setters in terms of globalization and relevance. The analysis enhances our understanding of the nature of OSCM authorship; scholar...

We examine the effects of predictors from the firm, project, and individual levels on innovative behavior within oil and gas projects. The theory and propositions tested in this study stem from extant work on (1) innovation in poor performance conditions and (2) the availability of slack resources. The research findings revealed that innovative beh...

This study analyzes more than three decades of theory testing published in leading entrepreneurship journals. It uncovers the amount of theory testing; the extent to which theories are tested multiple times; and, the disciplinary origins of the theories that are tested. The analysis reveals that empirical researchers have increasingly responded to...

With a wide-ranging set of contributions, this book provides a compilation of cutting-edge original research in the field of entrepreneurial opportunities. The book reopens the subject from diverse perspectives focusing on theories and approaches to entrepreneurial opportunities. It provides a brief history of the idea of opportunity and a framewor...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze more than three decades of theory testing published in leading operations management (OM) journals. Design/methodology/approach This piece examines the amount of theory testing, the extent to which theories are tested multiple times, and the disciplinary origins of the theories that are tested. Fi...

Marketing's scientific progress depends on, among other things, the development and testing of theories that explain and predict marketing phenomena. Ultimately, theory testing should advance the discipline toward broader theories with greater explanatory and predictive power. Using the inductive-realist model (Hunt, 2012) as a framework for scient...

So what are the implications of this general social science theory of entrepreneurship? How might it affect the behavior of entrepreneurs, education programming, research agendas, and the future redesign of the entrepreneurship discipline?

In Chap. 2 we saw how important it is for a person to have an edge to succeed as an entrepreneur. In Chap. 3 we saw how formal knowledge of the business disciplines and/or even ideas around good business practice did not seem to offer much help to the would-be entrepreneur. In Chap. 4 we got some appreciation of the value to be had from the numerou...

In the last two chapters you were given evidence that should give you reason to believe that the theory of entrepreneurial creativity merits your serious consideration. What, however, does it really mean to be entrepreneurially creative? This next chapter elaborates the creative resources likely to be found in a prototypic, entrepreneurially creati...

By now you might be wondering how people become entrepreneurially creative. Is it simply a matter of taking a university course?

At a societal level does creativity play a substantial role in economic development? How important is entrepreneurial creativity at the macro-economic level? What does the evidence show us?

Now that we have formulated a modernized version of Schumpeter’s model, should we believe it? The next chapter is concerned with the empirical evidence and how it relates entrepreneurial creativity with venture development.

We may want to question the general usefulness of business tools and teaching for enhancing entrepreneurial performance, but what about the rest of entrepreneurial science – what does it have to offer? Entrepreneurship as a positivistic social science has been advancing our knowledge base, one piece at a time, on how to more successfully develop bu...

This chapter is concerned first of all with the nature of entrepreneurial work and with the cognition that may well underlie this type of work. By understanding the nature of entrepreneurial work it is argued that we better understand entrepreneurs – the problems they live with and the way they think about them.

Now that we appreciate that entrepreneurial creativity might be relatively well supported as a potentially predictive theory by the empirical literature, other questions may occur to us. How well does this general scientific theory compare with other existing general scientific theories? To what extent does the theory of entrepreneurial creativity...

In many business schools, the field of strategic management has been elevated to the same status as more traditional subject areas such as finance, marketing and organizational behaviour. However, the field is rather unclearly delineated at present, as a result of the heavy usage of borrowed theories, a phenomenon we discuss in this article. For st...

The essential problem in entrepreneurship is improving the performance of entrepreneurs. The most important theories will be the ones that most enable us to predict and then ultimately influence entrepreneurial performance. This book develops a new and more accurate theory of entrepreneurial performance based in entrepreneurial creativity. The fiel...

This piece is a contribution to the sociology and philosophy of science within the discipline of operations management. It provides new insights that address the evolution, research methodology and maturity of the discipline. Specifically, the study answers questions about the extent of explicit theory-driven research in the discipline. To some ext...

In Chap. 2 you may have been struck by the size of the challenge you likely will face if you want to be above the 75 % or so of the population who earn less overall as entrepreneurs than they would in comparable jobs. If you also want to make enough to cover the cost of capital invested, you will have to be better prepared than the next person. To...

Being entrepreneurially creative is one thing, knowing what to do as a creative entrepreneur is something else again. The next chapter provides a creative process model of entrepreneurial venture development. The role of creativity in the entrepreneurial investment process is explored. We come to appreciate plausible process linkages between entrep...

The purpose of this article is to make visible and examine an enduring implicit small business theory of entrepreneurship. The theory presented here is not meant to represent all potential implicit versions of the theory. It is meant to provide an explicit alternative to exiting theory, as well as generate some critical discourse. The theory may be...

Research in the pre-paradigmatic, applied scientific field of entrepreneurship is characterized mainly as exploratory. This article advocates for a considerable shift toward a more effective applied research agenda. An applied research program is proposed based on modifications to a Lakatosian research program. The agenda extends beyond typical cal...

The effective and efficient management of diversified business firms that supply multiple products and operate in multiple, dynamic markets, especially large multinational enterprises (MNEs), builds upon a number of specific governance principles. These governance principles allow the alignment of environmental characteristics, strategy and organiz...