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36
Citations
18305
World Ranking
2003
National Ranking
813

Overview

Sharon A. Alvarez is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research work includes a strong focus on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, as well as Family Business Performance and Succession, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy, Economic Theory and Institutions, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

Alvarez has published numerous papers primarily in well-regarded academic venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Imagination, Indeterminacy, and Managerial Choice at the Limit of Knowledge (2020) in Academy of Management Review
  • Where Do Stakeholders Come From? (2021) in Academy of Management Review
  • Developing a Theory of the Firm for the 21st Century (2020) in Academy of Management Review
  • Creating Stakeholder Legitimacy in the Eyes of Stakeholders: The Case of Havana's Paladares (2021) in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Questioning boundedly rational frameworks in practice: The case of women entrepreneurs in Kumasi, Ghana (2022) in Journal of Business Venturing

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Jay B. Barney
  • Asli M. Arikan
  • Ennio E. Piano
  • Sybille Sachs
  • Arielle Badger Newman

Alvarez's publications are most often found in:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • Journal of Business Venturing

The main subfields within Business, Management and Accounting covered in Alvarez's work are:

  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Strategy and Management
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Sociology and Political Science

Throughout their research, Alvarez has explored topics related to how managerial cognition, stakeholder dynamics, and firm theory evolve in contemporary settings. Their work connects areas of entrepreneurship with broader economic and sociological considerations, often examining the practical implications of bounded rationality and stakeholder legitimacy in diverse cultural contexts.

Best Publications

  • Discovery and creation: alternative theories of entrepreneurial action

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • The Entrepreneurship of Resource-based Theory*

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Lowell W. Busenitz

  • The entrepreneurship of resource-based theory

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Lowell W. Busenitz

  • How entrepreneurial firms can benefit from alliances with large partners

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Forming and Exploiting Opportunities: The Implications of Discovery and Creation Processes for Entrepreneurial and Organizational Research

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney;Philip Anderson

  • How Do Entrepreneurs Organize Firms Under Conditions of Uncertainty

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Organizing rent generation and appropriation: toward a theory of the entrepreneurial firm

    Sharon A Alvarez;Jay B Barney

  • Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Poverty Alleviation

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Entrepreneurship and Epistemology: The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Study of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Doctoral Education in the Field of Entrepreneurship

    Candida G. Brush;Irene M. Duhaime;William B. Gartner;Alex Stewart

  • Resource‐Based Theory and the Entrepreneurial Firm

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Epistemology, Opportunities, and Entrepreneurship: Comments on Venkataraman et al. (2012) and Shane (2012)

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • The Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Susan L. Young;Jennifer L. Woolley

  • Entrepreneurship and Epistemology:<i>The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Study of Entrepreneurial Opportunities</i>

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  • Entrepreneurial Capabilities: A Resource-Based View

    Sharon Alvarez;Jay Barney

  • Debates in Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Formation and Implications for the Field of Entrepreneurship

    Sharon A. Álvarez;Jay B. Barney;Susan L. Young

  • Debates in Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Formation and Implications for the Field of Entrepreneurship

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney;Susan L. Young

  • Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action

    Sharon Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • Firm‐specific human capital investments as a signal of general value: Revisiting assumptions about human capital and how it is managed

    Shad S. Morris;Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney;Janice C. Molloy

  • Empowering Expatriates and Organizations to Improve Repatriation Effectiveness

    Douglas Allen;Sharon Alvarez

  • Opportunities, organizations, and entrepreneurship

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney

  • The poverty problem and the industrialization solution

    Sharon A. Alvarez;Jay B. Barney;Arielle M. B. Newman

  • Entrepreneurial rents and the theory of the firm

    Sharon A. Alvarez

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay B. Barney
Jay B. Barney University of Utah
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Markku V. J. Maula
Markku V. J. Maula Aalto University
Gerard George
Gerard George Singapore Management University
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University
Donald F. Kuratko
Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University
Lowell W. Busenitz
Lowell W. Busenitz University of Oklahoma
Simon C. Parker
Simon C. Parker University of Western Ontario
Maria Minniti
Maria Minniti Syracuse University

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