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From Founder Coaching Research to AI-Native Venture Development: Building Smart Compass

By Anja Hagedorn posted 13 hours ago
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Over the past few years, I have repeatedly asked myself one simple question: What if we could translate decades of entrepreneurship research into an AI-supported system that helps founders make better decisions? This question eventually became the starting point for Smart Compass (smartcompass.app) . My academic work has focused on founder coaching, entrepreneurial competencies, and decision-making under uncertainty. While conducting research and working with founders, I repeatedly observed the same challenge: founders receive valuable support from mentors, coaches, investors, and peers. However, much of this support remains fragmented, highly individualized, ...
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Rethinking Entrepreneurial Thinking: Why Entrepreneurial Ideas Change When Perspectives Change

By Victor (Vik) Perez posted 4 days ago
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By Victor (Vik) Perez Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) Entrepreneurship is often described as the process of generating new ideas. Yet an equally important question receives far less attention: how do entrepreneurial ideas themselves change once they encounter different ways of thinking? Entrepreneurial ideas rarely evolve in isolation. They develop as they are interpreted, questioned, challenged, and refined through interactions with others. While much entrepreneurship research has explored how opportunities are recognised and evaluated, less attention has been given to how opportunities themselves are reshaped when entrepreneurs are exposed ...
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What Happens When Entrepreneurs Start Working Alongside Humanoid Systems?

By Victor (Vik) Perez posted 15 days ago
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By Victor (Vik) Perez Imagine a founder preparing for a high-stakes investor demonstration. As questions emerge unexpectedly, a humanoid system assists with product demonstrations, monitors investor reactions, gathers information from the surrounding environment, adapts to changing conditions, and supports real-time decision-making. This may sound futuristic. Yet advances in embodied AI suggest such scenarios may arrive sooner than many expect. For years, conversations about artificial intelligence and entrepreneurship have focused largely on automation: which tasks machines can perform, which activities can be optimized, and which functions may ...
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The studENT - AI in the Classroom: Shifting the Focus from Doing to Defending

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 05-06-2026
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(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica ) For many PhD students starting to teach, AI can feel like a bit of a headache. Here’s how I’ve been approaching it (just in case it gives you some ideas). In individual assessments (like exams), limiting AI makes sense. You want to be sure students are building the fundamentals themselves. But once they’re working on assignments, projects, or presentations at home, that approach becomes harder to enforce. Realistically, they will use it anyway. In those stages, AI can actually be useful. When students are working on assignments, I try to encourage them to use AI as a kind of sparring ...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Three Entrepreneurial Tensions Emerging from Practice

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 05-06-2026
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(posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez-Ruiz ) In recent conversations with practitioners, three themes have surfaced with increasing consistency. These are not new ideas, but they are being experienced in ways that suggest a gap between how entrepreneurship research is often discussed and how entrepreneurship is practiced. A first concerns freedom. Entrepreneurship is frequently associated with autonomy (and even liberation) and the ability to pursue meaningful work. In practice, however, freedom is described less as independence and more as responsibility. Founders emphasize obligations—to employees, customers, and partners—that accumulate as the venture ...
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đŸ›°ïž Invitation to ENT Scholars 🚀 Space Economy PDW at AOM 2026 🌍✹

By Mehdi Montakhabi posted 04-23-2026
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The Space Economy (SE) is emerging as a distinctive context for advancing research in Entrepreneurship (ENT) . Once shaped primarily by state-led activity, it is now increasingly a frontier market in which startups, incumbents, and agencies jointly build technologies, standards, and demand . What makes the SE especially relevant for ENT is that it foregrounds entrepreneurial action under extreme uncertainty , high capital intensity , long development horizons , and dual-use constraints . These conditions sharpen core debates around opportunity creation versus discovery , entrepreneurial judgment under ...
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🌍 Flagship AOM 2026 PDW: 🚀 Space Economy đŸ›°ïž Consolidating a Research Agenda ✹

By Mehdi Montakhabi posted 04-01-2026
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Step into the flagship session of AOM 2026! The Space Economy PDW is where leading scholars and space industry pioneers unite. Join us to shape the future of management research in one of today's fastest-growing domains. With a 75-member team and co-sponsorship from 22 divisions , the PDW features keynotes, academic and industry panels, and interactive roundtables . Register now; spaces fill quickly! 🗓 Date : Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026 🕑 Time : 2:00–5:30 PM (Philadelphia time) 📍 Location : Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA 🗓 Registration Deadline : End of April (or earlier if sold out). 🗓 Register here : ...
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Academic Entrepreneuring: Bridging Entrepreneurial Action and Academic Careers

By Yanhong Ding posted 03-29-2026
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Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share our recent paper, “Academic Entrepreneuring: Bridging Entrepreneurial Action and Academic Careers,” forthcoming in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights . Academic careers are often portrayed as linear pathways, yet in practice they unfold under conditions of uncertainty, constraint, and continuous evaluation. In this paper, we conceptualize academic careers as entrepreneurial processes, highlighting how opportunity framing, effectuation, bricolage, and iterative learning shape researcher trajectories. This perspective offers a new lens on how scholars navigate their careers and has implications for researcher ...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Reframing Recognition as Co-Creation

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 03-04-2026
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(posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez Ruiz ) Each year, the Entrepreneurship Practice Award recognizes individuals whose work has meaningfully shaped the lived practice of entrepreneurship. The award honors visible impact. However, it also raises a deeper question: What does it mean for scholarship and practice to shape one another? As the Practitioner–Scholars Committee reflects on the future of this award, we are widening the horizon beyond recognition toward co-creation. Rather than viewing practice as an outcome of research, or research as a retrospective analysis of practice, we are thinking about the award as a focal point for co-creation ...
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The studENT - To Everyone on the Academic Job Market

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 01-08-2026
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(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica , PhD representative ) We’ve collectively turned the job market into a kind of “monster,” but at its core, it is simply academic institutions looking for new colleagues and scholars offering their talent to those institutions. Yes, it demands energy and time, but it’s also a natural part of academic life. What’s worth remembering is that an academic career is a long journey. It unfolds gradually. If you stay engaged, keep learning, and remain open to growth, you’ll move toward the place you aim for, step by step. Think about how you got here. You advanced through years of study, courses, ...
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Practitioner’s Corner: Learning Toward Co-Creation

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 01-08-2026
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Practitioner’s Corner: Learning Toward Co-Creation (posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez Ruiz ) For much of my own academic training, the relationship between scholarship and practice was framed in terms of translation. Research generated insights, and practice provided a setting in which those insights might later be applied. That framing remains useful, but recent conversations within the Practitioner–Scholars Committee have prompted me to reflect on its limits. Those conversations have increasingly centered on co-creation. By co-creation, I do not mean a formal method or a new label for engagement. I mean an approach to research in which ...
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Book Review of The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World

By Mayukh Mukhopadhyay posted 12-30-2025
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BOOK REVIEW The Scrapper’s Way: Making It Big in an Unequal World, by Damodar Padhi, Harper Collins Publishers, Gurugram, India (2024). ISBN 978-9-3569-9993-0, 252 pages As a young boy growing up in rural Odisha, Damodar Padhi once struggled to understand how an indoor toilet worked. Used to open fields, he found the enclosed space unfamiliar, even unnecessary. On the very next day, confused and unsure, he relieved himself in a playground instead. This seemingly small incident, narrated with humor in The Scrapper’s Way , captures the essence of Padhi’s journey as he adapts to new environments, learns through trial and error, and ...
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The studENT - A Space for PhD Voices

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 11-02-2025
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(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica , PhD representative ) Dear PhD colleagues, This month, I am thrilled to take over the studENT Column, which for the past year was written by Kanan Asif. I want to start by thanking Kanan for his dedication and contributions as PhD Representative in the ENT Division. I am excited to continue creating a space where PhD students can share experiences, challenges, and insights. My vision for this column is simple: to make it a platform by and for PhD students , where we can discuss the realities of doctoral life, celebrate achievements, and explore questions that matter to our community. ...
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đŸ›°ïž Space Economy Community – 🚀 SECOND & FINAL CALL for Expression of Interest (2026–2027 Activities)

By Mehdi Montakhabi posted 10-27-2025
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Following the tremendous success of the Space Economy PDW at AOM 2025 — the largest PDW in the Academy’s history — we are now finalizing plans for 2026–2027 community activities , which may include: 🌍 A second PDW at AOM 2026 đŸȘ A specialized symposium 🚀 A dedicated conference in 2027 đŸ€ Cross-divisional collaborations , such as special issues and joint initiatives If you would like to be involved as an organizer, volunteer, contributor, or participant , please share your input now. Your voice will directly shape the next phase of this growing community. 🔔 SECOND and FINAL CALL ...
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The studENT - Balance or Blur? Reframing Work–Life Harmony in Academia

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 09-11-2025
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(posted on behalf of @KANAN ASIF , PhD representative) Just as entrepreneurs face the exploration–exploitation dilemma, academicians must also balance the competing demands of work and life. But achieving that balance is easier said than done. We operate in a boundaryless field. Unlike other professions with tangible deliverables—such as building a two-story, 1,000 sq. ft. home—academicians have the liberty to invest unlimited time and energy into something as small as a conceptual diagram. We can dig intellectual holes as deep and wide as time permits. Our projects rarely conclude because there is nothing left to do; rather, we stop when we are ...
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In Memory of Christina GĂŒenther

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 09-11-2025
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(posted on behalf of @Donald Neubaum , Past Division Chair) (photographed by Julia Berlin from Koblenz) It’s with a heavy heart that I offer this tribute to commemorate Christina GĂŒenther - to reflect on the many ways she contributed to the Entrepreneurship Division and touched the lives of those around her. I am deeply humbled for the opportunity to speak on behalf of so many who knew and loved Christina. Christina served as PDW Chair, Program Chair, Chair Elect, Chair and Past Chair from 2015 to 2019. Christina was my “big sister,” as she was one year ahead of me in our 5-year progression on the Executive Committee. As a result, I was fortunate ...
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The studENT - You Are (Not) a Fraud: Navigating the Ph.D. Journey and Imposter Syndrome

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 07-08-2025
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(posted on behalf of @Asif Kanan) I still remember the day I received my acceptance letter to the Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The excitement was overwhelming. I felt proud, validated, and ready to embark on the journey of a lifetime. I knew a Ph.D. would be challenging, but I also trusted my abilities and was confident that I could handle whatever came my way. But as the months passed, something unexpected happened. Doubt started to creep in. The journey that began with such confidence slowly transformed into a cycle of second-guessing myself. I started to wonder if the admissions committee had made a mistake. Maybe ...
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The studENT - An Introvert’s Guide to Navigating Academic Conferences

By Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh posted 05-11-2025
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(posted on behalf of @Asif Kanan) It was my first AOM. I attended every relevant session coupled with networking and social events because, as I was told, the purpose of going to conferences was meeting people and networking. Like any field, academia requires us to meet new people, seek help, extend cooperation, and even be reasonably yet politely critical during presentations, perhaps more so than in many other careers. We are in the industry of ideas, and there is no exchange of ideas without reaching out to strangers. However, as if being an international student with imposter syndrome wasn’t enough, there I was—standing in the corner of a hall, ...
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