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About MQBS ISE

The ISE Research Group at Macquarie University Business School (MQBS) comprises scholars from Management, Marketing, Accounting, and Finance. 

The Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship (ISE) Research Group consolidates and leverages its members’ heterogeneous, yet complementary capabilities in ISE and related fields to conduct world-class inter-disciplinary research addressing the future of organisations, management practice, and society. The ISE Research Group encourages and supports the development and dissemination of knowledge relevant to managers, innovators, and entrepreneurs, and those who study, shape, or influence the strategy of organisations. 

It covers topics associated with strategic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-related decision making, their antecedents, context, and consequences. Main research areas evolve around innovation (e.g., product & service; business model; organisational; managerial; collaborative), strategy (e.g., performance, leadership, M&A, exit, resources, and capabilities) and entrepreneurship (e.g., new venture creation, entrepreneurial orientation, wellbeing, resilience). We conduct research in contexts such as B2B, family firms, SMEs, corporations, healthcare, government, non-profit organisations, and multinational organisations.

We seek interdisciplinary dialogue on the above topics from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioural, and operational. We take on a multi-level approach to theorizing and empirically investigate phenomena at the individual, family, firm, and macro levels (i.e., country, region, industry), as well as combinations of these.

The ISE Research Network will create alignment between external stakeholders’ needs and university, faculty, and members’ objectives by providing:

  • inter-disciplinary capabilities to inform innovative practices, decision making, and policy in business, government, and society;
  • a pivot network for MQBS to gain critical mass and national and international recognition;
  • high level research input and output at the business school level that will also inform teaching;
  • opportunities for academics to engage in exciting and challenging cross-discipline projects and maximise research input and output.

In sum, our objectives are 1) to develop research excellence by publishing cutting-edge research combining rigor and relevance; and 2) to translate our research into practice in our education and relationships with relevant stakeholders.

2023 and Forthcoming

Gómez-Mejia, LR, Chirico, F, Martin, G, & Baù, M 2023. Best among the worst or worst among the best? Socioemotional wealth and risk-performance returns for family and non-family firms under financial distress. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice.

Jung, C, Mallon, MR & Wilden, R. 2023 Strategy by Doing and Product-Market Performance: A Contingency View, Journal of Management.

Maghzi, A, Lin, N, Pfarrer, M, Gudergan, SP & Wilden, R 2023. Creating Opportunities: Heuristic Reasoning in Proactive Dynamic Capability Deployment, Academy of Management Review.

Wilden, R, Lin, N, Hohberger, J & Randhawa, K 2023. Selecting Innovation Projects: Do Middle and Senior Managers Differ When It Comes to Radical Innovation?, Journal of Management Studies.

Liang, W, Gu, J & Nyland, C 2022. China's New Research Evaluation Policy: Evidence from Economics Faculty of Elite Chinese Universities, Research Policy 51 (1): 104407.

Boisvert, I, Dunn, AG, Lundmark, E, Smith-Merry, J, Lipworth, W, Willink, A & Calvert, M 2023. Disruptions to the hearing health sector. Nature Medicine.

Cheng, L, Wang, Y, Zhang, X & Zhu, D 2023. Double-Edged Sword of Global Demand Heterogeneity: How Service Multinationals Capture the Benefits and Mitigate the Costs of Managing Customer Knowledge, Journal of Business Research 154.

Gao, H., Ren, M., & Shih, T. Y. 2023. Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry. International Business Review.

Zhao, Y., Zhang, Z., Lu, Y., & Ding, M. 2023. Standing in others' shoes: The role of leader prosocial motivation in facilitating employee creativity. Creativity and Innovation Management.

2022

Daymond, J, Knight, E, Rumyantseva, M & Maguire, S 2022 Managing Ecosystem Emergence and Evolution: Strategies for Ecosystem Architects, Strategic Management Journal.

De Rond, Md, Lok, J & Marrison, A 2022. To Catch a Predator: The Lived Experience of Extreme Practices, Academy of Management Journal 65 (3): 870-902.

Lin, N, Wilden, R, Chirico, FGhasrodashti, E & DeTienne, DR 2022. Persist or Let It Go: Do Rational Entrepreneurs Make Decisions Rationally?, Journal of Business Venturing 37 (4): 106210.

Lundmark, E, Coad, A, Frankish, JS & Storey, DJ 2020. The liability of volatility and how it changes over time among new ventures. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, 44(5), 933-963.

Chavan, DM, Chirico, PF, Taksa, PL & Alam, DMA 2022. How Do Immigrant Family Businesses Achieve Global Expansion? An Embeddedness Perspective, Academy of Management Discoveries.

Heyden, MLM, Gu, J, Wechtler, HM & Ekanayake, UIK 2022. The Face of Wrongdoing? An Expectancy Violations Perspective on CEO Facial Characteristics and Media Coverage of Misconducting Firms, The Leadership Quarterly 101671.

Hayward, M, Cheng, Z & Zhe Wang, B 2022. Disrupted Education, Underdogs and the Propensity for Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China’s Sent-Down Youth Program, Journal of Business Research 151 33-39.

Li, X, Wang, Y, Yang, MM & Tang, Y 2022. Does Owner CEO Narcissism Promote Exporting SMEs' Market Spreading Strategy? Joint Effects of Asset-Specific Investments and Firm Exporting Experience, Journal of International Management 28 (3): 100923.

Yu, C, Wang, Y, Li, T & Lin, C 2022. Do Top Management Teams’ Expectations and Support Drive Management Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises?, Journal of Business Research 142: 88-99.

2021

Arregle, JL, Chirico, F, Kano, L, Kundu, SK, Majocchi, A & Schulze, WS 2021. Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(6), 1159-1198.

Cheng, Z, Guo, W, Hayward, M, Smyth, R & Wang, H 2021. Childhood Adversity and the Propensity for Entrepreneurship: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Great Chinese Famine, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (1).

Chirico, F, Welsh, DH, Ireland, RD & Sieger, P. 2021. Family versus non‐family firm franchisors: Behavioural and performance Differences. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 165-200.

Hahn, T & Knight, E 2021. The Ontology of Organizational Paradox: A Quantum Approach, Academy of Management Review 46 (2): 362-384.

Krzeminska, A, Lundmark, E & Härtel, CEJ 2021. Legitimation of a Heterogeneous Market Category through Covert Prototype Differentiation, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (2).

Mafico, N, Krzeminska, A, Härtel, C & Keller, J 2021. The Mirroring of Intercultural and Hybridity Experiences: A Study of African Immigrant Social Entrepreneurs, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (3).

Garbuio, M., & Lin, N. 2021. Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence. Journal of Product Innovation Management38(6), 701-725.

2020 and earlier

Chirico, F, Gómez-Mejia, LR, Hellerstedt, K, Withers, M & Nordqvist, M 2020. To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit, Journal of Management 46 (8): 1342-1379.

Gary, MS, Yang, MM, Yetton, PW & Sterman, JD 2017. Stretch Goals and the Distribution of Organizational Performance, Organization Science 28 (3): 395-410.

Hoskisson, RE, Chirico, F, Zyung, J & Gambeta, E 2017. Managerial Risk Taking: A Multitheoretical Review and Future Research Agenda, Journal of Management 43 (1): 137-169.

Lok, J & Willmott, H 2019. Embedded Agency in Institutional Theory: Problem or Paradox?, Academy of Management Review 44 (2): 470-473.

Lundmark, E, Krzeminska, A & Shepherd, DA 2019. Images of Entrepreneurship: Exploring Root Metaphors and Expanding Upon Them, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 43 (1): 138-170.

Rond, Md & Lok, J 2016. Some Things Can Never Be Unseen: The Role of Context in Psychological Injury at War, Academy of Management Journal 59 (6): 1965-1993.

Wilden, R, Hohberger, J, Devinney, TM & Lumineau, F 2019. 60 Years of March and Simon's Organizations: An Empirical Examination of Its Impact and Influence on Subsequent Research, Journal of Management Studies 56 (8): 1570-1604.

Herdhayinta, H, Lau, J & Shen, CH-h 2021. Family Female Directors Versus Non-Family Female Directors: Effects on Firm Value and Dividend Payouts in an Extreme Institutional Environment, British Journal of Management 32 (4): 969-987.

Heyden, MLM, Wilden, R & Wise, C 2020. Navigating Crisis from the Backseat? How Top Managers Can Support Radical Change Initiatives by Middle Managers, Industrial Marketing Management 88 305-313.

Knight, E, Daymond, J & Paroutis, S 2020. Design-Led Strategy: How to Bring Design Thinking into the Art of Strategic Management, California Management Review 62 (2): 30-52.

Lundmark, E & Westelius, A 2019. Antisocial Entrepreneurship: Conceptual Foundations and a Research Agenda, Journal of Business Venturing Insights 11.

Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Gudergan, S 2018. Open Service Innovation: The Role of Intermediary Capabilities, Journal of Product Innovation Management 35 (5): 808-838.

Ren, M, Manning, S., & Vavilov, S 2019. Does state ownership really matter? The dynamic alignment of China's resource environment and firm internationalization strategies. Journal of International Management25(3).

Wilden, R, Gudergan, S, Akaka, MA, Averdung, A & Teichert, T 2019. The Role of Cocreation and Dynamic Capabilities in Service Provision and Performance: A Configurational Study, Industrial Marketing Management 78 43-57.

Yang, MM, Li, T & Wang, Y 2020. What Explains the Degree of Internationalization of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Firms? A Multilevel Study on the Joint Effects of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, Opportunity-Motivated Entrepreneurship, and Home-Country Institutions, Journal of World Business 55 (6).

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