Dean Shepherd

Erling Persson Visiting Professor 2024, Professor - Notre Dame University

Dean Shepherd is an Erling Persson Visiting Professor with the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology within the Stockholm School of Economics. His primary academic affiliation is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Mendoza College of Business, Notre Dame University. His research and teaching are in the field of entrepreneurship; he investigates the decision making involved in leveraging cognitive and other resources to act on opportunities, responding with resilience to adversity, and learning from experimentation (including failure). Dean is a fellow of the Academy of Management. He has been awarded three honorary doctorates (Jonkoping University [Sweden], Technical University of Munich [Germany], and Lulea University of Technology [Sweden]). From the Entrepreneurs Division of the Academy of Management, Dean has been awarded the “Dedication to Entrepreneurship award”, the “Mentor Award”, and the “Foundational Paper Award” (twice). He is the past editor-in-chief of the Journal Business Venturing. He has authored over 20 books and 180 publications in top management and entrepreneurship journals with over 75,000 Google cites.

Selected Publications

"Shepherd, D.A., Seyb, S. and George, G. (2023). Grounding business models: Cognition, boundary objects, and business-model change. Academy of Management Review, 48(1): 100-122.", Academy of Management Review, 2023

"Souitaris, V., Peng, B., Zerbinati, S., Shepherd, D.A. (2023). Specialists, generalists, or both? Founders’ multidimensional breadth of experience and entrepreneurial ventures’ fundraising at IPO. Organization Science, 34(2): 557-588.", Organization Science, 2023

"Seigner, B., Milanov, H., Lundmark, E. and Shepherd, D.A.. Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media. Journal of Business Venturing", (With ), journal of business venturing

"Shepherd, D. A., & Williams, T. Does it need to be broader or deeper? Trade-offs in entrepreneurship theorizing. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice", Entrepreneurship theory and practice

"Shepherd, D. A., & Patzelt, H. (2022). A call for research on the scaling of organizations and the scaling of social impact. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(2), 255-268.", entrepreneurship theory and practice, 2022

"Qin, X., Shepherd, D. A., Lin, D., Xie, S., Liang, X., & Lin, S. (2022). The dark side of entrepreneurs’ creativity: Investigating how and when entrepreneurs’ creativity increases the favorability of potential opportunities that harm nature. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 46(4), 857-883.", entrepreneurship theory and practice, 2022

"Mittermaier, A., Shepherd, D.A. and Patzelt, H. (2022). We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails: Prosocial ventures' responses to potential resource threats. Organization Science, 33(3), 1116-1141.", Organization science, 2022

"Solomon, B. C., Nikolaev, B. N., & Shepherd, D. A. (2022). Does educational attainment promote job satisfaction? The bittersweet trade-offs between job resources, demands, and stress. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(7), 1227.", Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022