Publications
Journal Publications (Peer Reviewed)
* coauthors who were students at the time of publication are underlined; coauthors who
were former students at the time of publication are double-underlined.
2023
Indiana University
McMullen, J.S. 2023. Real growth through entrepreneurial resourcefulness: Insights on the
entropy problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian. In Press at Academy of Management Review.
Paper featured in Academy of Management Insights, March 2023, as “Entrepreneurial
Sustainability Lessons from Matt Damon in The Martian”.
2023
Indiana University
Ramoglou, S., and McMullen, J.S. 2023. What is an opportunity? From theoretical mystification
to everyday understanding. In Press at Academy of Management Review.
2023
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Bakker, R.M., and McMullen, J.S. 2023. Inclusive entrepreneurship: A call for a shared
theoretical conversation about unconventional entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing,
38(1): 106268.
2022
Indiana University
Waldron, T.L., McMullen, J.S., Petrenko, O.V., Trudell, L.T., and Lafont, O.A. 2022.
Entrepreneur-investor rivalry over new venture control: the battle for Balcones distilling. Journal
of Business Venturing, 37(4): 106225.
2023
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Bergman, B.J., and McMullen, J.S. 2022. Helping entrepreneurs help themselves: A review and
relational research agenda on entrepreneurial support organizations. Entrepreneurship Theory &
Practice, 46(3): 688-728.
2022
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Kier, A.S., McMullen, J.S., and Kuratko, D.F. 2022. Interpersonal influence on entrepreneurial
persistence: The impact of self-regulation and entrepreneurial experience. Entrepreneurship
Theory & Practice, 46(6): 1812-1842.
2021
Indiana University
McMullen, J. S., Ding, A. W., and Li, S. 2021. From cultural entrepreneurship to economic
entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization. Journal of Business
Venturing, 36(6), 106157.
2021
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Smith, B.R., McMullen, J.S., and Cardon, M.S. (equal authorship). 2021. Toward a theological
turn in entrepreneurship: How religion could enable transformative research in our field. Journal
of Business Venturing, 36(5), 106139.
Paper Inducted into the Honor Roll of Responsible Research in Business and
Management in 2023.
2021
Indiana University
van Gelderen, M., Wiklund, J., and McMullen, J.S. 2021. Entrepreneurship in the Future: A
Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,
45(5), 1239-1275.
2021
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Bradley, S.W., Kim, P.H., Klein, P.G., McMullen, J.S., and Wennberg, K. (Authors listed
alphabetically). 2021. Policy for innovative entrepreneurship: Institutions, interventions, and
societal challenges. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 15(2), 167-184.
2021
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Brownell, K., McMullen, J.S., and O’Boyle, E. 2021. Fatal attraction: A systematic review and
research agenda of the dark triad in entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 36(3),
106106.
2020
Indiana University
McKelvie, A., Wiklund, J., McMullen, J.S., and Palubinskas, A. 2020. A dynamic model of
entrepreneurial opportunity: Integrating Kirzner’s and Mises’s approaches to entrepreneurial
action. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 23 (3-4), 499-541.
2020
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Kier, A.S., and McMullen, J.S., 2020. Entrepreneurial imaginativeness and new venture ideation
in newly forming teams. Journal of Business Venturing, 35(6), 106048.
2020
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McMullen, J.S., Ingram, K.M., and Adams, J. 2020. What makes an entrepreneurship study
entrepreneurial? Toward a unified theory of entrepreneurial agency. Entrepreneurship Theory
and Practice, 1042258720922460.
2020
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Stevenson, R.M., Josefy, M.A., McMullen, J.S., and Shepherd, D.A., 2020. Organizational and
management theorizing using experiment-based entrepreneurship research: Covered terrain and
new frontiers. Academy of Management Annals, in press.
2020
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Covin, J.G., and McMullen, J.S., 2019. Programmatic research and the case for designing and
publishing from rich, multifaceted datasets: Issues and recommendations. Journal of Business
Research, 101: 40-46.
2019
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Anderson, B.S., Wennberg, K., and McMullen, J.S. 2019. Enhancing quantitative theory-testing
entrepreneurship research. Journal of Business Venturing, 34: 105928.
2019
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Smith, B., Conger, M., McMullen, J.S., and Neubert, M. 2019. Why believe? The promise of
research on the role of religion in entrepreneurial action. Journal of Business Venturing Insights,
11, e00119.
2018
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McMullen, J.S. 2018. Organizational hybrids as biological hybrids: Insights for research on the
relationship between social enterprise and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Journal of Business
Venturing, 33(5): 575-590.
2018
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Kier, A.S., and McMullen, J.S. 2018. Entrepreneurial imaginativeness in new venture ideation.
Academy of Management Journal, 61(6): 2265-2295.
2019
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Townsend, D., Hunt, R., McMullen, J.S., and Sarasvathy, S. 2018. Uncertainty, knowledge
problems and entrepreneurial action. Academy of Management Annals, 12(2): 659-687.
2018
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Warnick, B.J., Murnieks, C., McMullen, J.S., and Brooks, W. 2018. Passion for
entrepreneurship or passion for the product? A conjoint analysis of angel and vc decision-
making. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(3): 315-332.
2018
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Conger, M., McMullen, J.S., Bergman, B.J., and York, J.G. 2018. Category membership,
identity control, and the reevaluation of prosocial opportunities. Journal of Business Venturing,
33(2): 179-206.
2017
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McMullen, J.S., and Bergman, B.J. 2017. Social entrepreneurship and the development paradox
of prosocial motivation: A cautionary tale. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 11(3): 243-270.
2019
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Murnieks, C., McMullen, J.S., and Cardon, M. 2019. Does adoption of an entrepreneur
professional identity encourage positive affect under environmental uncertainty? Journal of
Small Business Management, 57(3): 872-890.
2016
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Collins, J., McMullen, J.S., and Reutzel, C. 2016. Distributive justice, corruption, and
entrepreneurial behavior. Small Business Economics, 47(4): 981-1006.
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McMullen, J.S., and Kier, A.S. 2016. Trapped by the entrepreneurial mindset: Opportunity
seeking and escalation of commitment in the Mount Everest disaster. Journal of Business
Venturing, 31(6): 663-686.
Gupta, V., Chiles, T., and McMullen, J.S. 2016. A process perspective of evaluating and
conducting effectual entrepreneurship research. Academy of Management Review, 41(3): 540-
544.
McMullen, J.S., Wood, M.S., and Kier, A.S. 2016. An embedded agency approach to
entrepreneurship public policy: Managerial position and politics in new venture location
Decisions. Academy of Management Perspectives, 30(3): 222-246.
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Shepherd, D.A., McMullen, J.S., and Ocasio, W. 2017. Is that an opportunity? An attention
model of top managers’ opportunity beliefs for strategic action. Strategic Management Journal,
38(3): 626-644.
2016
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2016
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2016
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2017
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McMullen, J.S. and Warnick, B.J. 2016. Should we require every new venture to be a hybrid
organization? Exploring the limits of a world of blended value. Journal of Management Studies,
53(4): 630-662.
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McMullen, J.S. and Warnick, B.J. 2015. To nurture or groom? The parent-founder succession
dilemma. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 39(6): 1379-1412.
McMullen, J.S. 2015. Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: A sequential decision-
making approach to entrepreneurial action. Journal of Institutional Economics, 11(3): 651-681.
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McMullen, J.S. and Dimov, D. 2013. Time and the entrepreneurial journey: The problems and
promise of studying entrepreneurship as a process. Journal of Management Studies, 50(8):
1481-1512.
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Grimes, M., McMullen, J.S., Vogus, T., and Miller, T., 2013. Studying the origins of social
entrepreneurship: Compassion and the role of embedded agency. Academy of Management
Review, 38(3): 460-463.
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Miller, T., Grimes, M., McMullen, J.S., and Vogus, T. (equal authorship). 2012. Venturing for
others with heart and head: How compassion encourages social entrepreneurship. Academy of
Management Review, 37: 616-640.
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Shepherd, D.A., Haynie, J.M., and McMullen, J.S. 2012. Confirmatory search as a useful
heuristic: Testing the veracity of entrepreneurial conjectures. Journal of Business Venturing,
27(6): 637-651.
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Bradley, S., McMullen, J.S., Artz, K., and Simiyu, E. 2012. Capital is not enough: Innovation
in developing economies. Journal of Management Studies, 49(4):684-717.
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McMullen, J.S. 2011. Delineating the domain of development entrepreneurship: A free-market
approach to facilitating inclusive economic growth. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 35(1): 185-215.
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Gregoire, D., Corbett, A.C., and McMullen, J.S. 2011. The cognitive perspective in
entrepreneurship: An agenda for future research. Journal of Management Studies, 48(5): 1443-
1477.
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Chiles, T.H., Tuggle, C.S., McMullen, J.S., Bierman, L., and Greening, D.W. 2010. Dynamic
creation: Extending a radical Austrian approach to entrepreneurship. Organization Studies,
31(1): 7-46.
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Haynie, M., Shepherd, D.A., and McMullen, J.S. 2009. ‘An opportunity for me?’ The role of
resources in opportunity evaluation decisions. Journal of Management Studies, 46(3): 337-361.
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Paper honored by Journal of Management Studies in the Entrepreneurship Research
Exemplars Conference: An Invited Best Practices Conference for Advancing Research Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Held by the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI).
McMullen, J.S., Shepherd, D.A., and Patzelt, H. 2009. Managerial (in)attention to competitive
threats. Journal of Management Studies, 46(2): 157-181.
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McMullen, J.S., Bagby, R., and Palich, L. 2008. Economic freedom and the motivation to
engage in entrepreneurial action. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 32(5): 875-895.
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Wu, C., McMullen, J.S., Neubert, M., and Yi, X. 2008. The influence of leader regulatory focus
on employee creativity. Journal of Business Venturing, 23(5): 587-602.
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Shepherd, D.A., McMullen, J.S., and Jennings, P.D. 2007. The formation of opportunity beliefs:
Overcoming ignorance and reducing doubt. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(1-2): 75-95.
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Zacharakis, A., McMullen, J.S., and Shepherd, D.A. 2007. Venture capitalists’ decision policies
across three countries: An institutional theory perspective. Journal of International Business
Studies, 38(5): 691-708.
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McMullen, J.S., Plummer, L., and Acs, Z. 2007. What is an entrepreneurial opportunity? Small
Business Economics, 28(4): 273-283.
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Companys, Y. and McMullen, J.S. 2007. Strategic entrepreneurs at work: The nature, discovery,
and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. Small Business Economics, 28(4): 301-322.
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Mitchell, R, Busenitz, L., Bird, B., Gaglio, C.M., McMullen, J.S., Morse, E., and Smith, B.
2007. The central question in entrepreneurial cognition research 2007. Entrepreneurship:
Theory & Practice, 31(1): 1-27.
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Dean, T.J. and McMullen, J.S. 2007. Toward a theory of sustainable entrepreneurship:
Reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action. Journal of Business
Venturing, 22(1): 50-76.
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McMullen, J.S. and Shepherd, D.A. 2006. Encouraging consensus challenging research in
universities. Journal of Management Studies, 43(8): 1643-1669.
Paper used as an exemplar in Lohrke, F.T., Holloway, B.B., and Woolley, T.W. 2010.
Conjoint analysis in entrepreneurship research: A review and research agenda.
Organizational Research Methods, 13(1): 16-30.
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McMullen, J.S. and Shepherd, D.A. 2006. Entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in
the theory of the entrepreneur. Academy of Management Review, 31(1): 132-152.
Paper awarded the “Foundational Paper” by the Academy of Management’s
Entrepreneurship Division in 2018. This award was created to honor “a paper that has
powerfully and positively changed the conversation in the field of entrepreneurship for at
least a decade.”
Paper categorized in 2017 as a “Classic Paper” by Google Scholar.
Paper honored by Academy of Management Review in the Entrepreneurship Research
Exemplars Conference: An Invited Best Practices Conference for Advancing Research
Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Held by the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship
Division and The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI).