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1960
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Overview

Maura McAdam is affiliated with Dublin City University in Ireland and has a notable presence in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Social Sciences. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, and Accounting.

The core areas of Maura McAdam's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Family Business Performance and Succession, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Cultural Industries and Urban Development, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, Gender, Feminism, and Media, and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

Several recent papers by Maura McAdam highlight thematic diversity and ongoing contributions to entrepreneurship and gender studies:

  • "Digital girl: cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies" (2020), published in Small Business Economics
  • "Unexpected Lives: The Intersection of Islam and Arab Women's Entrepreneurship" (2020), published in Journal of Business Ethics
  • "Negotiating the female successor-leader role within family business succession in China" (2020), published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "Business models big and small: Review of conceptualisations and constructs and future directions for SME business model research" (2020), published in Journal of Business Research
  • "Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces" (2022), published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Maura McAdam frequently collaborates with other scholars in related fields. Notable coauthors include Richard Harrison, Eric Clinton, Caren Crowley, Hayfaa A. Tlaiss, and Kristel Miller.

Their work appears consistently in several academic journals that focus on entrepreneurship and gender, including Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • High tech start-ups in University Science Park incubators: The relationship between the start-up’s lifecycle progression and use of the incubator’s resources

    Maura McAdam;Rodney McAdam

  • Gender and entrepreneurship

    Susan Marlow;Maura McAdam

  • A systematic literature review of university technology transfer from a quadruple helix perspective: Towards a research agenda

    Kristel Miller;Rodney McAdam;Maura McAdam

  • The changing university business model: a stakeholder perspective

    Kristel Miller;Maura McAdam;Rodney McAdam

  • Analyzing the Influence of Gender upon High–Technology Venturing within the Context of Business Incubation:

    Susan Marlow;Maura McAdam

  • Open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises: An overview

    Pooran Wynarczyk;Panagiotis Piperopoulos;Maura McAdam

  • Building Futures or Stealing Secrets? Entrepreneurial Cooperation and Conflict within Business Incubators

    Maura Mcadam;Susan Marlow

  • Incubation or Induction? Gendered Identity Work in the Context of Technology Business Incubation

    Susan Marlow;Maura McAdam

  • Stories from the field: Women's networking as gender capital in entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Maura McAdam;Richard Harrison;Claire Marie Leitch

  • Situated regional university incubation: A multi-level stakeholder perspective

    Maura McAdam;Kristel Miller;Rodney McAdam

  • The development of University Technology Transfer stakeholder relationships at a regional level: Lessons for the future

    Rodney McAdam;Kristel Miller;Maura McAdam;Sinead Teague

  • A preliminary investigation into networking activities within the university incubator

    Maura McAdam;Susan Marlow

  • The Networked Incubator: The Role and Operation of Entrepreneurial Networking with the University Science Park Incubator (USI)

    Maura McAdam;Rodney McAdam

  • Digital girl: cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies

    Maura McAdam;Caren Crowley;Richard T. Harrison

  • Business Processes and Networks in University Incubators: A Review and Research Agendas'

    Maura McAdam;Brendan Galbraith;Rodney McAdam;Paul Humphreys

  • Beyond ‘triple helix’ toward ‘quadruple helix’ models in regional innovation systems: implications for theory and practice

    Maura McAdam;Koenraad Debackere

  • Breaking Glass: Toward a Gendered Analysis of Entrepreneurial Leadership

    Richard T. Harrison;Claire M. Leitch;Maura McAdam

  • “To boldly go where no [man] has gone before” - Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship

    Maura McAdam;Caren Crowley;Richard T. Harrison

  • Sense and sensibility: The role of business incubator client advisors in assisting high-technology entrepreneurs to make sense of investment readiness status

    Maura McAdam;Susan Marlow

  • Unexpected Lives: The Intersection of Islam and Arab Women’s Entrepreneurship

    Hayfaa A. Tlaiss;Maura McAdam

  • A Gendered Look at Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

    Candida G Brush;Linda F. Edelman;Richard T. Harrison;Diana Hechavarria

  • Entrepreneurial Marketing: The Growth of Small Firms in the New Economic Era

    Maura McAdam

  • Stories from the field: Women’s networking as gender capital in entrepreneurial ecosystems

    Richard Harrison;Maura McAdam;Claire Leitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard T. Harrison
Richard T. Harrison University of Edinburgh
Rodney McAdam
Rodney McAdam University of Ulster
Susan Marlow
Susan Marlow University of Nottingham
Clay Dibrell
Clay Dibrell University of Mississippi
Candida G. Brush
Candida G. Brush Babson College
Paul Humphreys
Paul Humphreys University of Ulster
William B. Gartner
William B. Gartner Babson College
Linda F. Edelman
Linda F. Edelman Bentley University
Patrick Spieth
Patrick Spieth University of Kassel

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