Entrepreneur Research at UMD
The Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship guides and supports entrepreneurship
research and the creation of new community and student ventures.
We aim to improve academic research about entrepreneurship by connecting PhD’s
with practitioners to promote the development of relevant research questions,
theoretical grounding, and identification of data sources.
Entrepreneurship Research Booklet
The annual entrepreneurship research booklet takes 6-10 research summaries
pulled from over 50 entrepreneurship research projects at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business. The compendium includes theory from multiple basic
intellectual traditions: psychology, economics, sociology, and management. This
compilation of extended research includes analysis of personal characteristics
of entrepreneurs, social networks, innovation patterns, market behavior, and the
forces behind financial decision making. The research questions are analyzed
through interviews, surveys, archival data, and simulation. Taken together, the
work reflects the high research energy of the Smith School of Business faculty
and students, and it reveals the strong support of the Dingman Center for
Entrepreneurship and the Smith School of Business’s leadership for economic
development in the State of Maryland.
Read the
2011-2012 Entrepreneurship Research at UMD Booklet here
Dingman Entrepreneurship Research Awards
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" |
For more information on the PhD program at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business, visit
www.rhsmith.umd.edu/doctoral.
