SU is Accepting New Ph.D. Students in Entrepreneurship for Fall 2011

calebxu

Please refer to the attached ad.

SU's PhD program in Entrepreneurship requires a strong English communication skill, both in the writing and in the oral forms. High GMAT score is NOT a must. I'd say 670 or 680 above is sufficient. You MUST demonstrate your research potential as well as your passion for e-ship research. Good luck!

benxu

Thank you. We were just discussing

gwendolinecn

Have learned a lot from your disputes.  Thanks.

benxu

Your comments apparently interested me. I checked with a professor who knows much more in entrepreneurship than I do.

Here are his comments:

1.  Indiana U does not count JBV for tenure.

2. Researchers should place affect and emotion in a broader framework and read John Dewey. Note that affect and emotion is only one topic in this framework, let alone the field of entrepreneurship.

The reference list: Topic: “Habit, Impulse and Intelligence”: A Pragmatist Framework

Recommended Articles:
1. Malcom Gladwell, “Clutching and Panicking,” The New Yorker, August 21-28 (2000).
2. John Dewey, , “Part I: The Place of Habit in Conduct,” pp. 14-88 in Human Nature and Conduct (1921).
3. PaulAdler and David Obstfeld, “The Role of Affect in Creative Projects andExploratory Search,” Industrial and Corporate Change (2007).
4. Michael Cohen, “What’s Different is Routine,” Industrial and Corporate Change 15: 387-390 (2006).
5. Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter, “Skills,” Chapter 4 in An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982).
6. Michael Polanyi, “Skills,” Chapter 4 in Personal Knowledge: Towards A Post-Critical Philosophy (1964).

Eisenhardt is a great scholar, but she is not considered an e-ship scholar because she has not published in JBV. I believe that she has all for publishing in JBV, but she never did (maybe she doesn't want to). In addition, she never went to Babson conference. As such, e-ship scholars respect her, but do not consider her an e-ship scholar. Who are the top e-ship scholars? Big names such as Shane, Venka, Baron (affect), Shepherd (grief & failure), Lumpkin (entrepreneurial orientation), Cardon (passion) and rising stars such as DeTienne (business exit), Dimov (learning), Haynie (cognition), Corbett (learning).


In fact, many good schools (Indiana, Baylor, Colorado) count publications in JBV in their tenure systems. For those who do not consider JBV, either they are TOO good (e.g. Stanford, Harvard, MIT) or they know nothing about e-ship. If you can get a job at those "too-good" school, then you have the right to look down on JBV. In fact, the acceptance rate of JBV is very low.  lease do not be judgmental on the things that you know very little about

All majors and all levels of journals have their places.
I am not saying that the JBV is insignificant; I am saying that it is insufficient. You may know that the top scholar in the entrepreneurship field is Professor Eisenhardt. Her bio can be found in the following link：

http://soe.stanford.edu/research/layoutMSnE.php?sunetid=kme

Can you see a publication on the JBV? No.  Let's see the other famous scholars in the e-ship field, to name a few that we both agree: Shane, Venka, Baron. Check their websites, I am sure none of them get their tenure because of publications on the JBV.

Admittedly, the JBV is a decent journal. But just like Research Policy and IEEE-Transactions, JBV can never compete with A-level journals in any way. Unfortunately the bitter truth is that e-ship is not fully developed and the JBV reflects its immaturity. Although e-ship is an important field, most of the research done is superficial and unoriginal. (Well, I am not saying I can do better than them. My current publications are all on the B-journals).
-- by 会员 benxu (2010/10/4 21:51:42)

-- by 会员 calebxu (2010/10/4 22:51:04)

benxu

Okay, you could be right about the acceptance rate of JBV. I have to admit that my dislike of the journal is due to my personal taste.

calebxu

Eisenhardt is a great scholar, but she is not considered an e-ship scholar because she has not published in JBV. I believe that she has all for publishing in JBV, but she never did (maybe she doesn't want to). In addition, she never went to Babson conference. As such, e-ship scholars respect her, but do not consider her an e-ship scholar. Who are the top e-ship scholars? Big names such as Shane, Venka, Baron (affect), Shepherd (grief & failure), Lumpkin (entrepreneurial orientation), Cardon (passion) and rising stars such as DeTienne (business exit), Dimov (learning), Haynie (cognition), Corbett (learning).


In fact, many good schools (Indiana, Baylor, Colorado) count publications in JBV in their tenure systems. For those who do not consider JBV, either they are TOO good (e.g. Stanford, Harvard, MIT) or they know nothing about e-ship. If you can get a job at those "too-good" school, then you have the right to look down on JBV. In fact, the acceptance rate of JBV is very low.  lease do not be judgmental on the things that you know very little about

All majors and all levels of journals have their places.
I am not saying that the JBV is insignificant; I am saying that it is insufficient. You may know that the top scholar in the entrepreneurship field is Professor Eisenhardt. Her bio can be found in the following link：

http://soe.stanford.edu/research/layoutMSnE.php?sunetid=kme

Can you see a publication on the JBV? No.  Let's see the other famous scholars in the e-ship field, to name a few that we both agree: Shane, Venka, Baron. Check their websites, I am sure none of them get their tenure because of publications on the JBV.

Admittedly, the JBV is a decent journal. But just like Research Policy and IEEE-Transactions, JBV can never compete with A-level journals in any way. Unfortunately the bitter truth is that e-ship is not fully developed and the JBV reflects its immaturity. Although e-ship is an important field, most of the research done is superficial and unoriginal. (Well, I am not saying I can do better than them. My current publications are all on the B-journals).
-- by 会员 benxu (2010/10/4 21:51:42)

benxu

Again, I respect the e-ship field: it is new but it is going to be important. For your inputs, here are some feedbacks

1. E-ship is new and under development. Currently its topics include many that related with marketing and strategy. Since you like the JBV so much, you may take a look at those topics and see what percent is exclusively on emotion and affect.

2. Shane argues that e-ship should not be about entrepreneurs themselves, just as cuisine is not about chefs. Opportunity recognition is important, correlated with strategy. Product innovation is also important, inherited from marketing. Venture Capital investment is important (If I am right, it is your dissertation topic?) and I see no connection between it and the study of emotions.

3. More than half of the e-ship researchers are graduated with a PhD in marketing or strategy.

Now only less than 20 schools offer a PhD in e-ship, am I right? And all of them are doing completely different things, leaving us confused about what the field is really about. I appreciate input from the SU program. All of us are trained differently, and such diversity makes the field great.  I personally dislike JBV because most papers I read are trash there. It is true that SMJ has trash papers, too.  It is also true that JBV has good articles. But it is not true that publication on JBV is the only indicator that a faculty in entrepreneurship is qualified.

PS: You are absolutely right about the year of Shane and Venka. It was 2000. I remembered it wrong.

You don't know the field of e-ship, how could you say this? What is the current conversation among e-ship scholars? It's emotion/affect (Shepherd, 2003; Baron, 2008; Cardon et al., 2009)! How is entrepreneurs' affect related to marketing and strategy? Don't be judgemental, especially for the things that you don't understand.


You may be a very good scholar in strategy, marketing, OT, OB ... but definitely know nothing about e-ship. Please have your manner and respect other fields.

In my opinion, e-ship is strongly correlated with marketing and strategy. Therefore, JM and SMJ are also great resource to learn about e-ship on topics such as product innovation, new venture management, and entrepreneurial behavior.

-- by 会员 benxu (2010/10/4 4:51:00)

-- by 会员 calebxu (2010/10/4 9:05:30)

benxu

Mr. Hsu, sorry for the misunderstanding. As I said, "no offense." Please do not interpret my comment as an attack to the JBV, or even entrepreneurship as a field. You may have noticed that I admit that JBV is currently the top journal in the e-ship field. I am not saying that the JBV is insignificant; I am saying that it is insufficient. You may know that the top scholar in the entrepreneurship field is Professor Eisenhardt. Her bio can be found in the following link：

http://soe.stanford.edu/research/layoutMSnE.php?sunetid=kme

Can you see a publication on the JBV? No.  Let's see the other famous scholars in the e-ship field, to name a few that we both agree: Shane, Venka, Baron. Check their websites, I am sure none of them get their tenure because of publications on the JBV.

Admittedly, the JBV is a decent journal. But just like Research Policy and IEEE-Transactions, JBV can never compete with A-level journals in any way. Unfortunately the bitter truth is that e-ship is not fully developed and the JBV reflects its immaturity. Although e-ship is an important field, most of the research done is superficial and unoriginal. (Well, I am not saying I can do better than them. My current publications are all on the B-journals).

SU is a pretty decent school. Non-US schools may treat the JBV as a bible, but I am surprised to see a SU student believes the same. I think the SU's students should look into a bigger picture in the research field. I don't know if you have published or about to publish on the JBV, if you do, congratulations: It is definitely an honor. But in the long run, publications on JBV is an indicator of incapability of publishing on the ASQ level journals, at least it seem to me. For Teese and big names who do not care where to publish, of cause, is another story.

If I am wrong in any way --and it is very likely--please point out. Thanks.

gwendolinecn

Thank you so much for the information and advice.  I'm much more confident now!

calebxu

BTW, Shane & Venka's article was published in 2000, not 2002.

Not to offend, but JBV is really a B-level journal, which does not worth much time to read. Comparing with A-level journals, B-journal article in general are less original, rigorous, and insightful. The only decent articles on JBV may be from Baron (2001-2004). I cannot find other good articles there.

Look out for Eisenhardt's articles in ASQ, AMR and AMJ. She is a professor at Stanford and published great articles in the field of entrepreneurship. Also read the article written by Shane and Venka (2002), which provides certain perspective on e-ship.

My comments are embedded with my own bias and experience. Admittedly, JBV is so far the best journal for E-ship alone. But even a hundred publications on JBV alone is not sufficient to get you a tenure at top schools. I spent about 40 hours reading JBV article for a seminar, and I really want that 40 hours back to my life.

-- by 会员 benxu (2010/10/4 4:39:53)