Jeffery McMullen

Jeffery S. McMullen is Dale M. Coleman Chair in Management and Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Kelley School of Business at

Areas of Expertise

Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management

Selected Publications

• Shepherd, D.A., McMullen, J.S., & Ocasio, W. (2017), “Is That an Opportunity? An Attention Model of Top Managers’ Opportunity Beliefs for Strategic Action,” Strategic Management Journal, 38(3): 626-644.
• Gupta, V., Chiles, T., & McMullen, J.S. (2017), “Making Effectuation Effectual: The Promise of Process Theory,” Academy of Management Review, 47(4): 595-606.
• McMullen, J., Warnick, B. J. (2016), "Should we require every new venture to be a hybrid organization? Exploring the limits of a world of blended value," Journal of Management Studies, 53(4): 630-662.
• McMullen, J.S., Wood, M.S., Kier, A.S. (2016), “An Embedded Agency Approach to Entrepreneurship Public Policy: Managerial Position and Politics in New Venture Location Decisions.” Academy of Management Perspectives, 30(3): 222-246.
• McMullen, J.S. and B. Warnick, B. (2015), "To Nuture or Groom?  The Parent-Founder Succession Dilemma," Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 39(6): 1379-1412.
• McMullen, J.S.  (2014), "Entrepreneurial Judgment as Empathic Accuracy: A Sequential Decision Making Approach to Entrepreneurial Action". Journal of Institutional Economics, doi: 10.1017/S1744137413000386.
• McMullen, J.S. and D. Dimov, D. (2013), “Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process.” Journal of Management Studies, 50(8):1481-1512.
• Grimes, M., J.S. McMullen, T. Vogus, and T. Miller, T. (2013), "Studying the Origins of Social Entrepreneurship: Compassion and the Role of Embedded Agency," Academy of Management Review, Volume 38(3): 460-463.
• Shepherd, D.A., J.M. Haynie, and J. McMullen (2012), “Confirmatory search as a useful heuristic: Testing the veracity of entrepreneurial conjectures,” Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 27, No. 6, November, pp. 637-651.  
• Bradley, S., J.S. McMullen, K. Artz, and E. Simiyu (2012), “Capital is not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies,” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 49, No. 4, June, pp. 684-717.  
• Miller, T., M. Grimes, J.S. McMullen, and T. Vogus, T. (2012), “Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship.” Academy of Management Review, 37: 616-640.
• McMullen, J. S. (2011), “Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market-Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth,” Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Vol. 35, No. 1, January, pp. 185-215.    
• Gregoire, D., A.C. Corbett, and J.S. McMullen (2011), “The Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Future Research,” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 48, No. 6, September, pp. 1443-1477.
• Chiles, T.H., C.S. Tuggle, J.S. McMullen, L. Bierman, and D.W. Greening (2010), “Dynamic Creation: Extending the Radical Austrian Approach to Entrepreneurship,” Organization Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 7-46.
• Haynie, M., D. A. Shepherd, and J. S. McMullen (2009), “''An Opportunity for Me?'' The Role of Resources in Opportunity Evaluation Decisions,” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 337-361.
• McMullen, J.S., D.A. Shepherd, and H. Patzelt, H. (2009), “Managerial (In)attention to Competitive Threats.”  Journal of Management Studies, 46(2): 157-181.
• Wu, C., J.S. McMullen, M. Neubert, and X. Yi (2008), “The Influence of Leader Regulatory Focus on Employee Creativity,” Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 23, No. 5, pp. 587-602.
• McMullen, J.S., R. Bagby, and L. Palich (2008), “Economic Freedom and the Motivation to Engage in Entrepreneurial Action,” Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Vol. 32, No. 5, September, pp. 875-895.
• Dean, T.J. and J.S. McMullen (2007), “Toward a Theory of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Reducing Environmental Degradation through Entrepreneurial Action.” Journal of Business Venturing, 22(1): 50-76.
• Shepherd, D.A., J.S. McMullen, and P.D. Jennings, (2007), “Formation of Opportunity Beliefs: A Coherence Theory Perspective.”  Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(1-2): 75-95.
• McMullen, J.S., L. Plummer, and Z. Acs (2007), “What is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?” Small Business Economics, 28(4): 273-283.
• Companys, Y. and J.S. McMullen (2007), “Strategic Entrepreneurs at Work: The Nature, Discovery, and Exploitation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities.”  Small Business Economics, 28(4): 301-322.
• Mitchell, R, L. Busenitz, B. Bird, C.M. Gaglio, J.S. McMullen, E. Morse, and B. Smith (2007), “Central Questions in Entrepreneurial Cognition Research.” Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 31(1):1-27.
• Zacharakis, A., J.S. McMullen, and D.A. Shepherd (2007), “Venture Capitalists’ Decision Policies across Three Countries:  An Institutional Theory Perspective,” Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 38(5), pp. 691-708.
• McMullen, J.S. and D.A. Shepherd (2006), “Encouraging Consensus Challenging Research in Universities.”  Journal of Management Studies, 43(8): 1643-1669.
• McMullen, J.S. and D.A. Shepherd (2006), “Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur.”  Academy of Management Review, 31(1): 132-152.