The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship awarded over $15,000 in prize money
to PhD students and faculty at the April 13, 2011 Entrepreneurship Research Luncheon.
Awards were distributed for top papers in three categories: PhD Student Research
in Progress, PhD Student Working Paper and Faculty/Journal Student Publication.
| PhD Student Research in Progress
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| First Place
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| Brady Firth, "Entrepreneurial Adaptation: A Process Approach"
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| Brad Greenwood, "Tiger Blood: Availability Cascades, New Firm Formation, and the
Acquisition of Venture Capital"
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| Third Place
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| Shweta Gaonkar, "Small Firms as Sources of Employee Entrepreneurship: The
Moderating Effect of Immigration Status" |
| Bryan Stroube, "Progress Over Poverty: Lender Preferences in Microfinance P2P
Lending" |
| PhD Student Working Paper
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| First Place
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| Koray Ozpolat, Guodong Gao, Wolfgang Jank, Siva Viswanathan, "The Value of
Online Trust Seals for Online Entrepreneurs: an Empirical Investigation"
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| Second Place
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| Seth Carnahan, Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell, "The Effect of Relative
Compensation Dispersion of Firms on the Mobility and Entrepreneurship of Extreme
Performers" |
| Jiban Khuntia, Sunil Mithas, Ritu Agarwal, "How do Business Models Influence the
Sustainability of Entrepreneurial Firms? The Case of Health Information
Exchanges" |
| Faculty/Student Journal Publication
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| First Place
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| Rajshree Agarwal, Pao-Lien Chen, Charles Williams, "Growing Pains: Pre-entry
Experience and the Challenge of Transition to Incumbency" |
| Second Place
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| Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin Campbell, Martin Ganco, April Franco, "Who Leaves,
Where to, and Why Worry?: Employee Mobility, Entrepreneurship and Effects on
Source Firm Performance" |
