Research

Organizational Entrepreneurship and Innovation:

Adomako, Samuel, Kusi, Samuel, Ahsan, Mujtaba, Cowden, Birton, and Nguyen, Nguyen Phong (2024), Entrepreneurial curiosity and firm innovation: Exploring the mediating role of information search in new technology. Journal of Business Research. Vol. 182.

Cowden, Birton, Karami, Masoud, Tang, Jintong, Ye, Wenping, and Adomako, Samuel (2024), The Spectrum of Perceived Uncertainty and Entrepreneurial Orientation: Impacts on Effectuation. Journal of Small Business Management. Vol. 62, Issue 1, pp. 380-414.

Meek, Shelby and Cowden, Birton (2023), Strategies of Unicorn Startups: How These Positive Deviants Compare to Early-Stage and Fortune 500 Ventures. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Vol. 30, Issue 6, pp. 1109-1128.

Cowden, Birton, Karami, Masoud, Tang, Jintong, Ye, Wenping, and Adomako, Samuel (2022), Uncertainty and decision making in small firms. Journal of the International Council for Small Business. Vol. 3, Issue 4, pp. 255-261.

Underserved Entrepreneurs

Cowden, Birton, Karami, Masoud, Tang, Jintong, Ye, Wenping, and Adomako, Samuel (2023), The gendered effects of effectuation. Journal of Business Research. Vol. 155. 

Cowden, Birton, Bendickson, Joshua, Mathias, Blake, and Solomon, Shelby (2022), Straight Outta Detroit: Embracing Stigma as Part of the Entrepreneurial Narrative. Journal of Management Studies. Vol. 59, Issue 8, pp. 1915-1949.

Cowden, Birton, Creek, Steve, and Maurer, Josh (2021), Gender Role Congruity and Crowdfunding Success. Journal of Small Business Management. Vol. 59, Issue sup1.

Bendickson, Joshua, Irwin, Jennifer, Cowden, Birton, and McDowell, William (2021), Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Knowledge Spillover in the Face of Institutional Voids: Groups, Issues and Actions. Knowledge Management Research and Practice. Vol. 19, Issue 1.

Global Entrepreneurship

Cowden, Birton and Tang, Jintong (2022), Institutional Entrepreneurial Orientation: Beyond Setting the Rules of the Game for Blockchain Technology. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. Vol. 180. 

Cowden, Birton and Young, Susan (2020), The Copycat Conundrum: The Double-Edged Sword of Crowdfunding. Business Horizons. Vol. 63, Issue 4, pp. 541-551. 

Tang, Jintong, Tang, Zhi, and Cowden, Birton (2017). Exploring the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation, CEO Dual Values, and SME Performance in State-Owned vs. Non-State-Owned Enterprises in China. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Vol. 41, Issue 6, pp. 883-908.

Sport

Foreman, Jeremy, Bendickson, Joshua, and Cowden, Birton (2020), Agency Theory and Principal-Agent Alignment Masks: An Examination of Penalties in the National Football League. Journal of Sport Management. Vol. 35, Issue 2. pp. 105-116.

Pittz, Thomas, Bendickson, Joshua, Cowden, Birton, and Davis, Phillip (2020), Sport Business Models: A Stakeholder Optimization Approach. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development. Vol. 28, Issue 1 pp. 134-147.