Learn – Research
The Field Center seeks to be a leading voice in entrepreneurship by producing research that is of value to academics and entrepreneurs alike. To that end, Field Center faculty seek to explore current issues facing entrepreneurs and analyze them with rigorous scientific methods.
The Field Center Research Seminar Series is a professional development program for faculty and Ph.D. students, providing supportive learning opportunities to enhance your academic research practices.
Interested faculty and Ph.D. students can contact Maria Halbinger for more details.
Previous Research Seminars
Data crawling — Jörg Claussen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Regression discontinuity design — Caroline Flammer, Boston University
Machine learning — Shane Wang, Western University
Natural Language Processing — Roman Jurowetzki, Aalborg University
Field Studies — Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, New York University
What Makes for a Theoretical Contribution — Andrew Corbett, Babson College
How to Use Storytelling in Academic Writing? — Timothy G. Pollock, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Formal Models — Richard Makadok, Purdue University
Experiments — Orsola Garofalo, Copenhagen Business School
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) — Peer Fiss, University of Southern California
Endogeneity — Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School
The Editing Process — Jeffery McMullen, Indiana University
Doctoral Workshops aim to prepare and support doctoral students submitting their entrepreneurship related research to conferences. Doctoral students will gain insights into the conference submission process as well as learn how to develop meaningful research projects.
Previous Research Seminars
Submitting to the Babson College Research Conference — Andrew Corbett, Babson College
Statistics Refresher — Romi Kher, Baruch College
Econometrics Bootcamp — Toke Reichstein, Copenhagen Business School
How to deliver an impactful, memorable conference presentation: Best practices, industry norms, and trade secrets — Jefferey McMullen, Indiana University
Recent Publications
Field Center faculty and PhD students routinely publish their research in the leading entrepreneurship, innovation, and management journals. Below are recent examples of their work:
2024
Seeing the forest and the trees: Exploring the effects of inter- and intra-entrepreneurial ecosystem factors on new venture creation
Scott Newbert (with Lei Xu, Shu Yang, Yu Liu, and Kimberly Boal)
This empirical study analyzes annual data from 1994 to 2016 for all 384 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the United States to identify the role that venture capital investment across MSA boundaries plays in regional new venture creation and how the impact of those investments is affected by the number of public companies and the level of religious participation within each MSA.
Academy of Management Journal
2022
Ivan Montiel (with Leopoldo Gutierrez, Jordi Surroca, and Josep Tribo)
This empirical article introduces a responsible innovation typology based on stakeholder engagement for firms to contribute more effectively to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Journal of Business Ethics
2021
Maria Halbinger (with Jörg Claussen)
This big-data study of more than 79,000 first-time innovators finds that the perceived value of an innovation can be increased by interacting with other first-time innovators during the development process.
Research Policy
This survey-based empirical study of makerspace participants shows that individuals motivated to innovate and/or diffuse innovations tend to join makerspaces and that individuals who participate in makerspaces are more likely to innovate and/or diffuse innovations successfully.
Research Policy
2023
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing
Scott Newbert (with Jeffery McMullen)
This article highlights the importance of the academic peer review process to a researcher’s ongoing professional development and to the vitality of the field as a whole.
Journal of Business Venturing
2022
Scott Newbert and Romi Kher (with Shu Yang)
This article prescribes how entrepreneurship researchers can design empirical studies that explore and exploit the contextual factors in their data so as to generate findings that are both interesting and important.
Journal of Business Venturing
2020
Shu Yang, Romi Kher and Scott Newbert
This large-scale empirical study reveals how accelerator selection decisions are biased due to the congruity between the signals sent by the startup and the stereotypes associated with the lead founder’s gender.
Journal of Business Venturing
2019
Scott Newbert (with Hans Rawhouser and Michael Cummings)
This review summarizes the myriad ways in which social impact has been measured in academic research and presents a typology of how social impact might be better conceptualized and measured going forward.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Entrepreneurship Research Venture Fund
In an effort to support high-quality academic research on entrepreneurship, the Field Center has established the Entrepreneurship Research Venture Fund. The fund seeks to share the risks and uncertainties associated with academic research by staging investment (both mentorship and financial awards) throughout the research process. Since its launch in 2018, projects receiving investment have been published in and/or presented at the following outlets:
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Business Venturing
Research Policy
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
International Association for Business and Society Conference
Applications for investment are considered on a rolling basis. Interested Management faculty and Ph.D. students should send an inquiry to Scott Newbert
Larry and Eris Field Family Visiting Scholar
In order to better integrate Baruch within the global community of entrepreneurship scholars, the Field Center established the Larry and Eris Field Family Visiting Scholar program. This program is designed to bring thought leaders from around the world to Baruch College to support the Field Center’s research initiative in a variety of ways, such as by presenting research, delivering workshops, providing feedback on research, collaborating with Baruch faculty, etc.
Past, present, and future visiting scholars include:
2019-2020 — Oana Branzei, Western University
2021-2022 — Andrew Corbett, Babson College
2022-2023 — Jeffery McMullen, Indiana University
2024-2025 — Tom Lumpkin, University of Oklahoma
Oana Branzei, Scott Newbert
Scott Newbert, Andrew Corbett
Scott Newbert, Field Editor at the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) since 2013, hosted the 2022 JBV Editor’s Conference at the Field Center. The event allowed JBV’s editorial team to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing both the journal and the field and develop a strategy for the upcoming year.
From left to right: Regan Stevenson (Indiana University), Phil Kim (Babson College), Nicola Breugst (Technical University Munich), Simon Parker (Ivey Business School), Charlene Zietsma (University of Michigan), Bill Forster (Willamette University), Veroniek Collewaert (Vlerick Business School), Dennis Park (University of Texas at Dallas), Nicole Coviello (Wilfrid Laurier University), Scott Newbert (Baruch College), Stephanie Fernhaber (Butler University), Maija Renko (DePaul University), Alex Kier (Washington State University), Aaron Anglin (Texas Christian University), Brian Anderson (University of Kansas), Mirjam Knockaert (Ghent University), Jeffery McMullen (Indiana University), Ted Waldron (Texas Tech University)
