William B. Gartner
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William B. Gartner's Degrees
- PhD Business Administration University of Colorado Boulder
- Masters Business Administration University of Colorado Boulder
- Bachelors Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
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- “Who Is an Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question (1988) (3566)
- A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation (1985) (2825)
- Properties of Emerging Organizations (1988) (1282)
- What are we talking about when we talk about entrepreneurship (1990) (1273)
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship (1985) (1053)
- The career reasons of nascent entrepreneurs (2003) (1048)
- Exploring Start-Up Event Sequences (1996) (955)
- Acting as If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial from Organizational Behavior (1992) (689)
- A longitudinal study of cognitive factors influencing start-up behaviors and success at venture creation (1995) (668)
- A profile of new venture success and failure in an emerging industry (1990) (618)
- Measuring progress in entrepreneurship education (1997) (602)
- Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development (2001) (541)
- Some Suggestions for Research on Entrepreneurial Traits and Characteristics (1989) (533)
- Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation (2004) (497)
- Everyday Entrepreneurship—A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity (2017) (406)
- The Prevalence of Nascent Entrepreneurs in the United States: Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (2004) (393)
- Finding the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship (1992) (382)
- Introduction to the special issue on qualitative methods in entrepreneurship research (2002) (366)
- Complexity dynamics of nascent entrepreneurship (2007) (345)
- Experiments in entrepreneurship education: Successes and failures (1994) (337)
- Entrepreneurial Expectancy, Task Effort, and Performance * (2002) (328)
- Entrepreneurial narrative and a science of the imagination (2007) (301)
- Is Extraordinary Growth Profitable? A Study of Inc. 500 High–Growth Companies * (2002) (280)
- Words lead to deeds: Towards an organizational emergence vocabulary (1993) (274)
- Measuring entrepreneurship over time (1995) (258)
- Predicting new venture survival: An analysis of “anatomy of a start-up.” cases from Inc. Magazine (1999) (230)
- Doctoral Education in the Field of Entrepreneurship (2003) (218)
- The language of opportunity (2003) (213)
- Entrepreneurial Behavior: Firm Organizing Processes (2010) (189)
- The Effects of Pre-venture Plan Timing and Perceived Environmental Uncertainty on the Persistence of Emerging Firms (2006) (173)
- Attributions about Entrepreneurship: A Framework and Process for Analyzing Reasons for Starting a Business (2001) (158)
- Critical perspectives in entrepreneurship research (2012) (143)
- Are you Talking to Me? The Nature of Community in Entrepreneurship Scholarship (2006) (140)
- A taxonomy of new business ventures (1989) (136)
- A new path to the waterfall: A narrative on a use of entrepreneurial narrative (2010) (125)
- Introduction for ‘Recreating/Recontextualising Entrepreneurship’ (2008) (103)
- Entry order, market share, and competitive advantage: A study of their relationships in new corporate ventures (1989) (92)
- Paradoxes and Innovation in Family Firms: The Role of Paradoxical Thinking (2016) (91)
- A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship and Context (2016) (83)
- Financing the emerging firm (2012) (81)
- Business Start-up Activities (2004) (81)
- The Entrepreneur Next Door: Characteristics of Individuals Starting Companies in America: An Executive Summary of the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (2002) (76)
- Context, time, and change: Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research (2020) (70)
- Variations in entrepreneurship (2008) (65)
- Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies (2020) (59)
- Am I a student and/or entrepreneur? Multiple identities in student entrepreneurship (2017) (57)
- The effects of perceptions of risk, environmental uncertainty, and growth aspirations on new venture creation success (2012) (56)
- The Influence of Pre-Venture Planning on New Venture Creation (2007) (53)
- Opportunities as attributions: Categorizing strategic issues from an attributional perspective (2008) (48)
- Factors affecting new product forecasting accuracy in new firms (1993) (47)
- Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges (2012) (42)
- When Growth is the Problem, Not the Solution (1997) (41)
- The context of contextualizing contexts (2016) (38)
- Creating a community of difference in entrepreneurship scholarship (2013) (35)
- Entrepreneurship as practice: grounding contemporary practice theory into entrepreneurship studies (2016) (34)
- A PLAUSIBLE HISTORY AND EXPLORATION OF STEVENSON’S DEFINITION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2010) (33)
- Learning “who we are” by doing: Processes of co-constructing prosocial identities in community-based enterprises (2017) (33)
- Thus the Theory of Description Matters Most (1992) (32)
- Environmental and Ownership Characteristics of Small Businesses and Their Impact on Development (2000) (29)
- “Who is an entrepreneur?” is (still) the wrong question (2020) (26)
- The Deming Theory of Management (1988) (25)
- Six memos for a curious and imaginative future scholarship in entrepreneurship studies (2011) (24)
- The institutionalization of entrepreneurship (2016) (24)
- The edge defines the (w)hole: saying what entrepreneurship is (not) (2004) (23)
- ACHIEVING “CRITICAL MESS” IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHOLARSHIP (2004) (23)
- Low-Wealth Entrepreneurs and Access to External Financing (2016) (22)
- Competitive Strategy@@@Competitive Advantage (1985) (20)
- The Effects of Hyper Growth on Firm Profitability (2002) (19)
- Special Issue Announcement: Models of Organization Formation (1990) (17)
- Advancing our research agenda for entrepreneurship and contexts (2016) (17)
- Entrepreneurship as Organizing: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (15)
- Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business (2020) (15)
- Perceptions of Entrepreneurial Climate (2004) (14)
- The Language of Opportunity: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (14)
- Organizing the Voluntary Association (1993) (14)
- Dr. Deming Comes to Class (1993) (14)
- 10: A "critical mess" approach to entrepreneurship scholarship (2006) (13)
- THE CAREER REASONS OF MINORITY NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS. (2002) (13)
- Entrepreneurship as organisation creation (2012) (12)
- The Influence of Financial 'Skin in the Game' on New Venture Creation (2015) (12)
- Entrepreneurship—Hop (2008) (12)
- The Deming Theory of Management@@@A Review of Out of the Crisis@@@Deming Guide to Achieving Quality and Competitive Position@@@The Keys to Excellence: The Story of the Deming Philosophy@@@The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity: Roadmaps and Roadblocks@@@The Deming Management Method (1988) (11)
- Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Behavior (2017) (10)
- When words fail: An entrepreneurship glossolalia (2011) (10)
- Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process (2020) (10)
- Editorial: An introduction to entrepreneurship as practice (EAP) (2021) (9)
- ‘That’s Witchcraft’: Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices (2021) (9)
- A Longitudinal Study of Cognitive Factors Influencing Start-up Bevhaviors and Success at Venture Creation: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (9)
- Qualitative Methods in Entrepreneurship Research (Special Issue) (2002) (9)
- WITHDRAWN: The effects of founding team diversity and social similarity on venture formation (2009) (9)
- Perspectives on Arts Entrepreneurship, Part 2 (2015) (8)
- In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges (2021) (7)
- ENTER: Entrepreneurial Narrative Theory Ethnomethodology and Reflexivity: An Issue about The Republic of Tea (2010) (7)
- Ready or not? Nascent entrepreneurs’ actions and the acquisition of external financing (2021) (7)
- What Do Entrepreneurs Talk About When They Talk About Failure (2013) (7)
- Forging Forms of Authority through the Sociomateriality of Food in Partial Organizations (2020) (7)
- Financing the Emerging Firm: Comparisons between PSED I and PSED II (2009) (7)
- Predicting New Venture Survival: An Analysis of "Anatomy of Start-up." Cases from INC. Magazine: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (6)
- A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (6)
- Organizing Entrepreneurship (research) (2014) (6)
- Exploring Start-up Event Sequences: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (6)
- Inventors at Work (1989) (5)
- Can't See the Trees for the Forest (1993) (5)
- When robots and people work together (1985) (5)
- Moving and Being Moved: Ideas, Perspectives and 59 Theses on Entrepreneurial Leadership (2012) (5)
- Notes towards a theory of entrepreneurial possibility (2014) (5)
- Overview: The Start-up Process (2004) (4)
- The Career Reasons of Nascent Entrepreneurs: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (4)
- Opportunities as Attributions: Categorizing Strategic Issues from an Attributional Perspective: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (4)
- “Finding the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship” (1992) (4)
- Building Multitemporal Awareness and Reflexivity in Family Business: A Visual Sensemaking Exercise (2020) (4)
- Entrepreneurship As Practice (2021) (4)
- Innovating to Compete: Lessons for Diffusing and Managing Change in the Workplace. (1988) (3)
- Consumer entrepreneurship : What is it? When, how, and why does it emerge? (2017) (3)
- A Historical Intervention in the “Opportunity Wars”: Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward (2022) (3)
- The Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship (2013) (3)
- FINANCING THE EMERGING BUSINESS THROUGH MONITORED AND UNMONITORED SOURCES OF FUNDING (SUMMARY) (2008) (3)
- Entrepreneurship and New Value Creation: Foreword (2007) (3)
- A brief history of the idea of opportunity (2017) (2)
- Expert skills: implications for studying the behavior of entrepreneurs (2020) (2)
- The Family Business as a Community of Practice (2019) (2)
- And Now for Something Completely Different (1993) (2)
- Introduction: Special issue on entrepreneurship and new venture creation (2004) (2)
- Pre-venture Planning (2007) (2)
- Acting As If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial From Organizational Behavior: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (2)
- Entrepreneurial legacy: how narratives of the past, present and future affect entrepreneurship in business families (2020) (2)
- Entry Order and Its Relationship to Market Share and Competitive Advantage: A Study of New Corporate Ventures. (1988) (2)
- ARE PLANNERS DOERS? PRE-VENTURE PLANNING AND THE START-UP BEHAVIORS OF ENTREPRENEURS IN THE PSED (SUMMARY) (2008) (2)
- Institutional Isomorphism, Business Planning, and Business Plan Revision: The Differential Impact on Teams Versus Solo Entrepreneurs (2009) (2)
- A "Critical Mess" Approach to Entrepreneurship Scholarship: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (2)
- Ending on a High Note or Perpetuating Commitment? Exploring Founder Exit in Social Business Ventures (2021) (1)
- The effects of perceptions of risk, environmental uncertainty, and growth aspirations on new venture creation success (2011) (1)
- A good man is hard to find: project management, entrepreneurship and serendipity (2018) (1)
- Editorial (2020) (1)
- Building a Knowledge Base (2001) (1)
- The Effects of Pre-venture Plan Timing (2006) (1)
- Talking About (My) Generation: The Use of Generation as Rhetorical History in Family Business (2023) (1)
- Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process (2020) (1)
- History as a source and method for family business research (2020) (1)
- Anecdotes of destiny (2017) (1)
- Entrepreneurial Task Effort, and Performance* (2002) (1)
- Innovation and EntrepreneurshipInnovation and Entrepreneurship, by Drucker Peter F.. New York: Harper & Row, 1985, 277 pp., $19.95, cloth. (1987) (1)
- UNDERSTANDING ENTREPRENEURIAL EXIT DURING ORGANIZATION EMERGENCE: AN INTEGRATION OF STRATEGIC AND BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVES (INTERACTIVE PAPER) (2009) (1)
- A New Path to the Waterfall: A Narrative on a Use of Entrepreneurial Narrative: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (1)
- What are we Talking About When we Talk About Entrepreneurship?: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (1)
- Managing Legacy, Achievement and Identity in Entrepreneurial Families (2021) (1)
- Conclusion: An 'ENTREFESTO': Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (1)
- Being in-between: What we can learn from Multiple Identity Management in Student Entrepreneuring (2007) (0)
- The Practice Turn in Management Studies: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (2018) (0)
- Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship Research (2018) (0)
- APPENDIX I: Measuring Entrepreneurship over Time (1997) (0)
- Entry Strategies in an Emerging Industry. (1983) (0)
- Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage: A Rhetorical History Perspective (2023) (0)
- A Profile of New Venture Success and Failure in an Emerging Industry: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Developing legacy for sustainable family business (2018) (0)
- Books & Resource Reviews (1988) (0)
- Properties of Emerging Organizations: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- The Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurial Families: Insights from the World’s Experts on Multi-Generational Entrepreneurial Families (2021) (0)
- Ready or Not? The Sequence of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Actions and External Financing (2020) (0)
- Exploring differences in the antisocial behaviors of adolescent rule-breaking that affect entrepreneurial persistence (2022) (0)
- Tourist self-presentation and diet regulations (2020) (0)
- Organizational Emergence: The Impact of Entrepreneurs' Behaviors on External Financing (2014) (0)
- The Effects of Pre-venture Plan Timing and Perceived Environmental Uncertainty on the Persistance of Emerging Firms: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2004) (0)
- ACORN: Entrepreneurial Narrative and History (2009) (0)
- Copyright: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Integrating historical methods and perspectives in family business research (2020) (0)
- A Conceptual Franiewurk for DescriMiig the PhenLOHieBon of New Venture Creation (2005) (0)
- Man on the Moon: a business case competition in a global company (2012) (0)
- EXIT BEFORE ENTRY: WHY DO NASCENT ENTREPRENEURS QUIT? (INTERACTIVE PAPER) (2014) (0)
- Introduction: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges (2011) (0)
- Identity In and Around Entrepreneurial Families (2019) (0)
- Advancing Theory Development in Entrepreneurship (2019) (0)
- Did River City Really Need a Boy's Band?: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Entrepreneurial Narrative and a Science of the Imagination: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- What do Hollywood films say about entrepreneurship? Ten questions for the class room (2018) (0)
- Entrepreneurial legacy : when past meets future in business families (2019) (0)
- Organizational SystemeticsOrganizational Systemetics, by BillMcKelvey. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press, 1982, 511 pp., $29.95. (1984) (0)
- Words Lead to Deeds: Towards an Organizational Emergence Vocabulary: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Editorial: introduction to and overview of the special issue on family business (2021) (0)
- Student and/or Entrepreneur? Managing Multiple Identities among Emerging University Student Entrepreneurs: Norminated for the European Best Paper Competition (2006) (0)
- Acknowledgements: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Re-imagining The Achieving Society (2011) (0)
- Rule Breaking, Gender, Social Status, and Entrepreneurial Persistence (2020) (0)
- A multi-disciplinary approach to family entrepreneurship (2018) (0)
- Financing the emerging firm (2011) (0)
- One size does not fit all : generalising entrepreneurial insights in a world of differences (2017) (0)
- Prosocial values, entrepreneurship and community organizing in shared consumption (2017) (0)
- Entrepreneurial Expertise and Entrepreneurial Behavior (2020) (0)
- Logic matters: A meta-theoretical analysis of the question of the entrepreneur (2018) (0)
- A Taxonomy of New Business Ventures: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Professional Development Workshop: Reflexive Entrepreneurship Studies (2015) (0)
- The baton of entrepreneurship : CBS views on entrepreneurship (2015) (0)
- Gordian knot uncut: Understanding the problem of founder exit in social ventures (2023) (0)
- What does entrepreneurship mean to you? Using implicit entrepreneurship theory in the classroom (2021) (0)
- CHARACTERISTICS OF “NO + LOW” FINANCED BUSINESSES (SUMMARY) (2014) (0)
- An Entrepreneurial Odyssey (2022) (0)
- Contents: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
- Consumer entrepreneurship as prosocial practice (2017) (0)
- The Oz in Organization: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner (2016) (0)
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