Entrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – start-up employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but who do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both preference and contextual theories of entrepreneurship, we examine how individuals’...

This paper investigates how the encouragement of entrepreneurship within university research labs relates with research activities, research outputs, and early doctorate careers. Utilizing a panel survey of 6,840 science & engineering doctoral students at 39 R1 research universities, this study...

A growing body of research explores how employees' organizational context shapes their entrepreneurial activity. We add to this work by examining how “educational mismatch” – when a job does not utilize the skills an employee has acquired during education – relates to subsequent...