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, 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) 
• Changing the System, Not the Seeker: How can early-stage equity investors change their dominant evaluative and valuation practices? (with Amisha Miller)
• Beyond Hybridity: The Role of Impact Measurement in Transcending Mission-Mandate Tensions (with H. Hachigian & K. Harji) 
  
• 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

• Consideration and Differentiation: Unpacking the Ordering Effect of Impact-Oriented Accelerators on Equity Investment” (with Amisha Miller, Li-Wei Chen, & Peter W. Roberts)
• On the way to the SBA: Systematic Inequalities in Neighborhood Business Support in the United States (with Li-Wei Chen & Peter W. Roberts)
• Of Causality and Comparability: The Role of Impact Measurement in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship