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Business and Management
USA
2026

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Business and Management

D-Index
119
Citations
110274
World Ranking
16
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - 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
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow
  • Dean of Fellow, Academy of Management
  • Mentor Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management
  • 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellow

Overview

Shaker A. Zahra is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Business, Management and Accounting, with a significant contribution in areas such as Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

The research topics Zahra explores include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Family Business Performance and Succession, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development.

Zahra has contributed extensively to academic literature, with notable recent papers including:

  • "International entrepreneurship in the post Covid world," 2020, Journal of World Business
  • "The Resource-Based View, Resourcefulness, and Resource Management in Startup Firms: A Proposed Research Agenda," 2021, Journal of Management
  • "How digital technology promotes entrepreneurship in ecosystems," 2022, Technovation
  • "Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda," 2022, Small Business Economics
  • "Toward an action-based view of dynamic capabilities for international business," 2022, Journal of International Business Studies

The prominent publication venues for Zahra's work include the Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Family Business Strategy, and the ACADEMIA International Journal for Social Sciences.

Frequent collaborators in Zahra's research community are Niron Hashai, Tom Vanacker, Ahmed Sewaid, Hina Manzoor, and Sehar Khalid.

Awards received by Zahra comprise the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum in 2014, Fellowship as a Dean of Fellow at the Academy of Management, a Mentor Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, and the 21st Century Entrepreneurship Research Fellowship.

Best Publications

  • Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension

    Shaker A. Zahra;Gerard George

  • Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capabilities: A Review, Model and Research Agenda

    Shaker A. Zahra;Harry J. Sapienza;Per Davidsson

  • International expansion by new venture firms: International diversity, mode of market entry, technological learning, and performance.

    Shaker A. Zahra;R. Duane Ireland;Michael A. Hitt

  • Boards of Directors and Corporate Financial Performance: A Review and Integrative Model

    Shaker A. Zahra;John A. Pearce

  • A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, search Processes and Ethical Challenges

    Shaker A. Zahra;Eric Gedajlovic;Donald O. Neubaum;Joel M. Shulman

  • Contextual influences on the corporate entrepreneurship-performance relationship: A longitudinal analysis

    Shaker A. Zahra;Jeffrey G. Covin

  • Predictors and financial outcomes of corporate entrepreneurship: An exploratory study

    Shaker A. Zahra

  • A Capabilities Perspective on the Effects of Early Internationalization on Firm Survival and Growth

    Harry J. Sapienza;Erkko Autio;Gerard George;Shaker A. Zahra

  • Environment, corporate entrepreneurship, and financial performance: A taxonomic approach

    Shaker A. Zahra

  • National Culture and Entrepreneurship : A Review of Behavioral Research:

    James C. Hayton;Gerard George;Shaker A. Zahra

  • BOARD COMPOSITION FROM A STRATEGIC CONTINGENCY PERSPECTIVE

    John A. Pearce;Shaker A. Zahra

  • Goverance, Ownership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Impact of Industry Technological Opportunities

    Shaker A. Zahra

  • Middle managers' perception of the internal environment for corporate entrepreneurship: assessing a measurement scale

    Jeffrey S Hornsby;Donald F Kuratko;Shaker A Zahra

  • Entrepreneurship in Family vs. Non‐Family Firms: A Resource‐Based Analysis of the Effect of Organizational Culture

    Shaker A. Zahra;James C. Hayton;Carlo Salvato

  • International corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance - The moderating effect of international environmental hostility

    Shaker A Zahra;Dennis M Garvis

  • Entrepreneurial Risk Taking in Family Firms

    Shaker A. Zahra

  • A theory of international new ventures: a decade of research

    Shaker A Zahra

  • Business strategy, technology policy and firm performance

    Shaker A. Zahra;Jeffrey G. Covin

  • Exploration, exploitation, and financial performance: analysis of S&P 500 corporations

    Juha Uotila;Markku Maula;Thomas Keil;Shaker A. Zahra

  • International Entrepreneurship: The Current Status of the Field and Future Research Agenda

    Shaker A. Zahra;Gerard George

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard George
Gerard George Singapore Management University
Donald O. Neubaum
Donald O. Neubaum Florida Atlantic University
Markku V. J. Maula
Markku V. J. Maula Aalto University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Thomas Keil
Thomas Keil University of Würzburg
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Donald F. Kuratko
Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University
R. Duane Ireland
R. Duane Ireland Texas A&M University
Douglas J. Cumming
Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology
Johan Wiklund
Johan Wiklund Syracuse University

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