An overview of the conceptualization, rationale, and implementation of longitudinal studies of business creation, emphasizing the experiences and results of two U.S. projects, issues in defining critical events in the start-up process, and illustrative findings. |
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Paul D. Reynolds is the Howard Hoffman Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Management and Entrepreneurship at George Washington University. He has held faculty appointments at the U. of California, Riverside; U. of Minnesota; Marquette University; Babson College; London Business School, and Florida International University and visiting and research appointments at the U of Michigan, U of Pennsylvania Wharton School, INSEAD in France, and Nanyang Technical University in Singapore. Reynolds completed undergraduate work in engineering at the U of Kansas (BS; 1960); all graduate work was completed at Stanford University, with degrees earned in business (1964; MBA), psychology (1966; MA), and sociology (1969; PhD). Over the past 20 years he was the coordinating principal investigator of two longitudinal studies of US business creation [Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, I and II] and the founding principal investigator of a forty nation comparison of entrepreneurial activity [Global Entrepreneurship Monitor]. Reynolds currently serves as co-principal investigator of the second US Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics. He is the author or co-author of five books; seven edited collections; 42 research reports and monographs; 85 peer review journal articles and book chapters; seven data sets in the ICPSR archives; and over two hundred presentations to professional and policy audiences. In 2004 Reynolds received the annual Swedish International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. |
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