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William B. Gartner

William B. Gartner

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Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
40508
World Ranking
517
National Ranking
229

Overview

William B. Gartner is affiliated with Babson College in the United States, contributing to the field of Business, Management, and Accounting with a particular focus on entrepreneurship and organizational studies.

Their research spans multiple subfields, including Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, and Education. This interdisciplinary approach supports an extensive examination of business phenomena from various perspectives.

Key topics in William B. Gartner's work include:

  • Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
  • Family Business Performance and Succession
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Human Resource and Talent Management
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Their recent papers highlight contributions to understanding entrepreneurship through different lenses. Notable publications include:

  • "Context, time, and change: Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research" (2020) in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • "Entrepreneurship-as-practice: grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies" (2020) in Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • "'Who is an entrepreneur?' is (still) the wrong question" (2020) in Journal of Business Venturing Insights
  • "In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges" (2021) in Journal of Small Business Management
  • "Legacy in Family Business: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda" (2024) in Family Business Review

William B. Gartner frequently collaborates with other researchers closely linked to their field. Important coauthors include Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Bruce T. Teague, Raja Singaram, Angela Randolph, and Christina Lubinski.

Their works are often published in venues with a focus on entrepreneurship and management, such as:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research
  • Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
  • Family Business Review
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Best Publications

  • A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation

    William B. Gartner

  • “Who Is an Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question:

    William B. Gartner

  • Arriving at the high growth firm

    Frédéric Delmar;Per Davidsson;William B. Gartner

  • Properties of Emerging Organizations

    Jerome Katz;William B. Gartner

  • The career reasons of nascent entrepreneurs

    Nancy M Carter;William B Gartner;Kelly G Shaver;Elizabeth J Gatewood

  • Exploring start-up event sequences

    Nancy M. Carter;William B. Gartner;Paul D. Reynolds

  • What are we talking about when we talk about entrepreneurship

    William B. Gartner

  • Acting as If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial from Organizational Behavior:

    William B. Gartner;Barbara J. Bird;Jennifer A. Starr

  • A longitudinal study of cognitive factors influencing start-up behaviors and success at venture creation

    Elizabeth J. Gatewood;Kelly G. Shaver;William B. Gartner

  • A profile of new venture success and failure in an emerging industry

    Donald A. Duchesneau;William B. Gartner

  • Measuring progress in entrepreneurship education

    Karl H. Vesper;William B. Gartner

  • Some Suggestions for Research on Entrepreneurial Traits and Characteristics

    William B. Gartner

  • Is There an Elephant in Entrepreneurship? Blind Assumptions in Theory Development

    William B. Gartner

  • Everyday Entrepreneurship—A Call for Entrepreneurship Research to Embrace Entrepreneurial Diversity:

    Friederike Welter;Ted Baker;David B. Audretsch;William B. Gartner

  • Finding the Entrepreneur in Entrepreneurship

    William B. Gartner;Kelly G. Shaver;Elizabeth Gatewood;Jerome A. Katz

  • Experiments in entrepreneurship education: Successes and failures

    William B. Gartner;Karl H. Vesper

  • The Prevalence of Nascent Entrepreneurs in the United States: Evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics

    Paul D. Reynolds;Nancy M. Carter;William B. Gartner;Patricia G. Greene

  • Complexity dynamics of nascent entrepreneurship

    Benyamin B. Lichtenstein;Nancy M. Carter;Kevin J. Dooley;William B. Gartner

  • Entrepreneurial Expectancy, Task Effort, and Performance*

    Elizabeth J. Gatewood;Kelly G. Shaver;Joshua B. Powers;William B. Gartner

  • Handbook of entrepreneurial dynamics : the process of business creation

    William B. Gartner;William B. Gartner

  • Acting As If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial From Organizational Behavior: Selected Papers of William B. Gartner

    William B. Gartner;Barbara J. Bird;Jennifer A. Starr

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Reynolds
Paul D. Reynolds Aston University
Jerome A. Katz
Jerome A. Katz Saint Louis University
Friederike Welter
Friederike Welter University of Siegen
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Alain Fayolle
Alain Fayolle IDRAC Business School
Ted Baker
Ted Baker Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Hans Landström
Hans Landström Lund University
Stefano Pascucci
Stefano Pascucci University of Exeter
Shaker A. Zahra
Shaker A. Zahra University of Minnesota
Mattias Nordqvist
Mattias Nordqvist Stockholm School of Economics

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