Ongoing Research

I draw on organizational and management theory in the business, public, and nonprofit sectors, and 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, Business & Society, Public Management Review, and American Review of Public Administration, while others are conference drafts planned for submission.

Please email me for drafts of these studies.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

• Resource Acquisition Strategy Beyond the Point of Founding: The Role of Resource Endowment, Overconfidence, and the Strategic Intention
  (with Li-Wei Chen & Sheela Pandey) (revise & resubmit)
• Can Institutional Supports Improve the Quality of the Volun-‘told’? An Analysis of Online Volunteer Mentors
• (with Dyana Mason & Li-Wei Chen) 
• How Can Entrepreneurs Build Social Capital? An Experimental Study of 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.

Social Entrepreneurship, Global Philanthropy, and International Aid

• How Social Entrepreneurship Grows: The Role of Philanthropic Finance
  (with Jacob Park) (2nd round revise & resubmit)
• Institutional Intermediaries as Legitimizing Agents for Social Enterprise in China and India (with Janelle Kerlin, Shuyang Peng, and Shicun Cui) (2nd round revise & resubmit)
• Translating Impact: The Role of Intermediaries in Promoting Standardized Impact Measurement Practices in Social Entrepreneurship

Early Stage Projects
I also have a number of other projects at earlier stages on nascent economic activities in Rohingya refugee camps; microenterprise development and social class, and public and private social innovations in healthcare for the base of the pyramid.​