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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
87
Citations
88220
World Ranking
104
National Ranking
51

Economics and Finance

D-Index
79
Citations
84528
World Ranking
282
National Ranking
207

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

Overview

Scott Shane is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work addresses several subfields, including Accounting, Management Information Systems, and Management of Technology and Innovation.

Their research prominently covers topics related to Private Equity and Venture Capital, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Scott Shane are the following:

  • Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study (2022) published in Small Business Economics
  • Founder smiles increase investor trust and funding (2025) published in Scientific Reports
  • How Pitch Order Affects Investor Interest (2021) published in Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

Frequent co-authors include:

  • David Clingingsmith
  • Nicos Nicolaou
  • Mark Conley
  • Will Drover
  • Dimosthenis Stefanidis

Publication venues where Scott Shane's research is commonly published include:

  • Small Business Economics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Innovation Economics & Management

In 2009, Scott Shane received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.

Best Publications

  • The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

    Scott Shane;Sankaran Venkataraman

  • Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

    Scott Shane

  • A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Opportunities and Entrepreneurship

    Jonathan T. Eckhardt;Scott A. Shane

  • Explaining the formation of international new ventures: The limits of theories from international business research☆

    Patricia Phillips McDougall;Scott Shane;Benjamin M. Oviatt

  • Network Ties, Reputation, and the Financing of New Ventures

    Scott Shane;Daniel Cable

  • The Promise of Enterpreneurship as a Field of Research

    Scott Shane;S. Venkataraman

  • A General Theory of Entrepreneurship

    Unknown

  • Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others?

    Dante Di Gregorio;Dante Di Gregorio;Scott Shane

  • Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

    Scott Shane;Toby Stuart

  • Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy

    Scott Shane

  • National Cultural Distance and Cross-Border Acquisition Performance

    Piero Morosini;Scott Shane;Harbir Singh

  • Cultural influences on national rates of innovation

    Scott Shane

  • Entrepreneurial Motivation

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  • Academic entrepreneurship : university spinoffs and wealth creation

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Legitimating first: organizing activities and the survival of new ventures

    Frédéric Delmar;Scott Shane

  • The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By

    Scott Andrew Shane

  • Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures

    Frédéric Delmar;Scott Shane

  • The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research

    Unknown

  • Entrepreneurship: A Process Perspective

    Robert A. Baron;Scott Andrew Shane

  • Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research

    Scott Shane

  • Technological Opportunities and New Firm Creation

    Scott Shane

  • Why do some societies invent more than others

    Scott A. Shane

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie C. Thursby
Marie C. Thursby Georgia Institute of Technology
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Daniel M. Cable
Daniel M. Cable London Business School
Julia Lane
Julia Lane New York University
Karl T. Ulrich
Karl T. Ulrich University of Pennsylvania
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Frank Hoy
Frank Hoy Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Robert A. Baron
Robert A. Baron Oklahoma State University
Patricia P. McDougall
Patricia P. McDougall Indiana University
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University

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