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Building gender-aware ecosystems for growth: Women’s entrepreneurial learning and leadership development.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine processes of entrepreneurial learning and leadership development (ELLD) for women involved in growth-oriented businesses. It considers how ELLD can be supported by building gender-aware ecosystems for growth. Design/methodology/approach – Data are...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation seeks to explore how entrepreneurs engage in prospective sensemaking and what role their arational beliefs play in it. I investigate the implications of prospective sensemaking on opportunity identification and risk management. While the current literature on entrepreneurship...
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How Do Constraints Affect Early-stage Entrepreneurial Activity? A Regulatory Focus Perspective
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Academics and practitioners tend to accept that people found new ventures only primarily for economic reasons, but is that always true? Emerging work in the field suggests other non-economic key motives that may drive entrepreneurial decisions. My dissertation explores one such critical...
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Nursing entrepreneurship: Motivators, strategies and possibilities for professional advancement and health system change.
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In Canada, as well as internationally, efficiency-focused organizational restructuring in healthcare has resulted in stressful job change for nurses, although nurses continue to work in a system that values technology-based, physician-provided services. Employed nurses have had to participate in...
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2019-03-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2019: We are applying to the Partnership Engage Grant in order to forge a partnership between the University of Alberta and Global Partners in Care (GPIC), an organization dedicated to enhancing access to palliative care globally, to launch a research program to explore the...
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2018-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2018: This project asks: what are the cultural macrofoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems? The Cultural Entrepreneurship literature focuses on entrepreneurs deploying cultural elements to legitimate new ventures (Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001). Alongside calls for new thinking in...
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09/28/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The research has two objectives. First, we seek to understand how the blockchain entrepreneurship field is emerging in the context of tremendous ambiguity associated with unclear rules and the existence of competing institutional logics-what has been recently conceptualized...
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Spring 2010
Regional income disparity continues to be a source of major concern for Canadian policymakers. This study explores the temporal pattern of income disparity for Canadian provinces, and seeks to identify the role of one particular determinant – entrepreneurship – in explaining regional economic...
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Three Studies on Cultural Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding: We’ve Got Your Back, The Legitimacy Threshold Revisited, and Four Pathways Towards Cultural Resonance
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The primary goal of this doctoral thesis is to advance knowledge on the processes by which entrepreneurial actors gain and maintain the support of their audiences, such as resource providers. Theoretically, my research contributes to the growing body of work on the cultural dynamics of...