Dean A. Shepherd 
The Aspiring Entrepreneurship Scholar 
Strategies and Advice for a Successful Academic Career

This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed as an entrepreneurship scholar. It invites them to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty position, and build a research record worthy of promotion and tenure. Drawing from his experience as a research scholar, editor, review board member, mentor, and reviewer of many promotion and tenure cases, author Dean Shepherd offers strategies and other pieces of advice for navigating the obstacles that can prevent a successful scholarly career.






This book provides an overview and roadmap to help entrepreneurship scholars achieve success, and stimulates thought and discussion for doctoral students and junior and senior faculty to consider as they look to develop the next generation in academia.

Tabella dei contenuti

1. Introduction.- 2. Thinking entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities.- 3. Approaching and managing the publication process.- 4. Adopting an entrepreneurial mindset to achieve excellence in teaching.- 5. Securing an entrepreneurship faculty position.- 6. Building an entrepreneurship research record worthy of promotion.- 7. Conclusion

Circa l’autore

Dean A. Shepherd is the David H. Jacobs Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Venturing and has published over 130 scholarly journal articles and 19 books.