Ongoing Research

I combine organizational and management theory with scholarship in political science, public administration, and economics to examine issues at the intersection of entrepreneurship and society. I often work in close partnership with practitioner organizations to systematically collect data and test promising interventions through field research. My research agenda is motivated by questions that are of scholarly and policy relevance, reflecting my own background of over a decade working in international development and policy research.

Some of these studies are currently at the “revise and resubmit” or “under review” stages at journals like Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Business & Society, Public Management Review, and American Review of Public Administration, while others are conference drafts planned for submission or earlier-stage works.

Titles have been generalized to enable blinded peer-review.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

• Strategic Attention of Early Stage Ventures: The Role of Gender and Overconfidence
  (with Li-Wei Chen & Sheela Pandey) 
• Can Institutional Supports Improve the Quality of Volunteering? An Analysis of Online Volunteer Mentors
• (with Dyana Mason & Li-Wei Chen) 
• Motivating Entrepreneurs to Acquire Social Capital: A Field Experiment in Online Mentoring
  (with Dyana Mason & Li-Wei Chen) (part of an ongoing experimental trial supported by the Innovation Growth Lab). Further details of the trial can be found here.
• Changing the System, Not the Seeker: How can early-stage equity investors change their dominant evaluative and valuation practices? (with Amisha Miller, Markus Goldstein, Joao Montalvao, & Salman Alibhai)
• Micro-bricolage Entrepreneurship Under Extreme Constraints: Examining Entrepreneurial Activity in Rohingya Refugee Camps” (with Rashedur Chowdhury & Benjamin Siedler)
• Indebtedness and Social Class: An Exploration of Mental Wellbeing of Microfinance Borrowers” with (Rashedur Chowdhury & Benjamin Siedler) 

Social Entrepreneurship, Global Philanthropy, and International Aid

• The Role of Philanthropic Finance in Social Entrepreneurship Growth
  (with Jacob Park) 
• Institutional Intermediaries as Legitimizing Agents for Social Enterprise in China and India (with Janelle Kerlin, Shuyang Peng, and Shicun Cui) 
• Consideration and Differentiation: Unpacking the Ordering Effect of Impact-Oriented Accelerators on Equity Investment” (with Amisha Miller, Li-Wei Chen, & Peter W. Roberts)
• Translating Impact: The Role of Intermediaries in Promoting Standardized Impact Measurement Practices in Social Entrepreneurship
• Comparability over Causality: The Spread of Standardized Impact Measurement Practices in Social Entrepreneurship