David Ross Marshall

From employment to entrepreneurship and back: A legitimate boundaryless view or a bias-embedded mindset?

This article explores entrepreneurial cognition theory and the boundaryless view of careers analyzing how a boundaryless view may be composed of several cognitive biases such as overconfidence, belief in the law of small numbers, and illusions of control focused on the ability to enter employment following entrepreneurial exit or failure. These biases reduce risk perceptions associated with the decision to start a venture; however, critical decision-making information may be missed by boundaryless biased individuals, such as negative attributions about former entrepreneurs made by recruitment managers.

Learning off the Job: Examining Part-time Entrepreneurs as Innovative Employees:

In this paper, we explain and examine how engaging in part-time entrepreneurship (creating and managing side businesses while remaining employed for wages in existing organizations) uniquely positions individuals to exhibit innovative behavior in employee roles. To study this phenomenon, we integrate the literatures on entrepreneurial learning, knowledge and learning transfer, and employee innovation. We hypothesize that part-time entrepreneurship provides an opportunity for individuals to acquire knowledge and skills conducive to enacting innovative behaviors as employees. Multilevel regression analysis of a sample of 1,221 employee responses across 137 organizational units provides evidence to support our positive transferal hypothesis. Further, we find that individual differences in goal orientations and work-unit climates for innovation strengthen these relationships.

Legitimizing the social enterprise: development of a conformance framework based on a genealogical pragmatic analysis

Abstract Calls for an historic turn in management and organizational studies (MOS) have opened the door for the use of unique and innovative historical methods. While significant progress has been made, we propose the genealogical pragmatic method of analysis provides a path for continued theoretical development and methodological rigor in MOS. Relying on a genealogical pragmatic method allows researchers to problematize and reconceptualize important theoretical concepts critical for theory building. In this article, we apply genealogical pragmatic method to the historical case of Mound Bayou, an all African-American venture in Mississippi, to problematize and reconstruct present conceptualizations of conformance activities for gaining legitimacy as a social enterprise.

New Director Selection in Family Firms Under Identity Challenging Contingencies

Relying on a social identity framework, the current research investigates new director selection patterns in family-influenced and lone-founder firms. Based on 8,042 occurrences of new director pla...

Work to Work Enrichment: Employee Innovation through Hybrid Entrepreneurship

Despite the prevalence of people starting new entrepreneurial ventures while maintaining full-time, organizational employment, scholars have only recently begun paying attention to these part- time, “hybrid” entrepreneurs. However, several advantages flow to the entrepreneur as a result of simultaneous engagement in entrepreneurial roles (i.e., working for oneself) and employee roles (i.e., working for someone else) such as access to opportunities, development of human and social capital, and financial support. But, while the literature explaining how organizational employment complements entrepreneurship has grown, few scholars have considered how an employee’s part-time venturing might actually benefit the employer. In this paper, we rely on entrepreneurial learning and role enrichment theories to theoretically explore the potential for innovative behavioral spillover from entrepreneurial roles to organizational roles for persons engaged in hybrid entrepreneurship. We propose individual and organization...