Research

Interests

The emergence of firms, industries, and technologies.

Entrepreneurship ecosystems and infrastructure development.

ORCID: 0000-0001-5156-2060

Published

Woolley, J.L. & Lu, S. 2026. "Who Founds Public Firms? The Influence of Founder Gender, Human Capital, and Social Capital on the Likelihood of IPO." Academy of Management Discoveries, 12(1) 37-65.

Woolley, J. L. & Pozner, J. E. 2025. "Co(coa)preneurship: The Persistence of Craft Ventures and the Power of Coupling." Academy of Management Discoveries, 11(1), 96–122.

*** Profiled in AOM Insights March 2025. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2023.0140.summary

Woolley, J. L. & Pozner, J. E. 2025. "Craft Ventures Founded by Couples Enjoy Greater Longevity." EIExchange. https://eiexchange.com/content/craft-ventures-founded-by-couples-enjoy-greater-longevity

Woolley, J. L. & Pozner, J. E. 2025. "Craft Ventures are More Successful with a Couple at the Helm." https://familybusiness.org/content/craft-ventures-are-more-successful-with-a-couple-at-the-helm

Woolley, J.L. 2024. "Generative AI and Business: A Review and Research Agenda." Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Business and Management. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.434

Woolley, J.L. 2023. "Getting along with Frenemies: Enhancing Multi-competitor Coopetition Governance through Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain." Industry and Innovation, 30, 1156-1189. doi: 10.1080/13662716.2023.2168519

Woolley, J.L. 2023. "Book Review: Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush Smith (eds.). Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry." Administrative Science Quarterly, 68(3), NP49-NP52.

Woolley, J. L., Pozner, J. E., & DeSoucey, M. 2022. "Raising the Bar: Values-Driven Niche Creation in US Bean-to-Bar Chocolate." Strategy Science, 7(1), 27-55. https://doi.org/10.1287/stsc.2021.0147

Woolley, J.L., McGregor, N. 2022. "Science, technology, and innovation policy timing and nanotechnology entrepreneurship and innovation." Plos One, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0264856

Woolley, J.L. 2022. "Spirituality and Entrepreneurship - Friend or Foe?" The Mindset, https://www.scu.edu/cioccacenter/resources/the-mindset/

Woolley, J.L., McGregor, N. 2021. "The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211024510

Woolley, J.L. 2021. "Processes of Emergence and Change in Industry and Ecosystem Infrastructure." In Marshall Scott Poole & Andrew H. Van de Ven (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation (pp. 639-670). Oxford University Press.

Alvarez, S.A., Young, S.L., & Woolley, J.L. 2020. "Creating the World’s Deadliest Catch: The Process of Enrolling Stakeholders in an Uncertain Endeavor." Business and Society. 59(2), 287-321.

Woolley, J.L. 2019. "Gender, Education, and Occupation: How Founder Experiences Influence Firm Outcomes.” Academy of Management Discoveries. 5(3), 266-290.

Woolley, J.L. 2019. "Women Founders of STEM Firms in the US: Challenges and Opportunities to Attain Business Sustainability and Wellbeing." Exploring Wellbeing of Women in Entrepreneurship, A Global Perspective. Edited by: Lepeley, M., Kuschell, K., Eijdenberg, E., & Pouw, N. Taylor Francis.

Woolley, J.L. 2017. "Origins and Outcomes: The roles of spinoff founders and intellectual property in high technology venture outcomes." Academy of Management Discoveries, 3 (1): 64-90.

Woolley, J.L. 2017. "Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship" Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Business and Management, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190224851.013.33

Woolley, J.L. 2017. "The Backgrounds of Women Founders of STEM Firms: Success Factors." Academy of Management Proceedings.

Alvarez, S.A., Young, S.L., & Woolley, J.L. 2015. "Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry." Journal of Business Venturing, 30: 95-112.

Sarangee, K., Woolley, J.L., Schmidt, J., Long, E. 2014. "Stop Throwing Good Money After Bad! Techniques to De-escalate Commitment to Losing New Product Innovation Projects." PDMA Visions. 2: 13-16.

Woolley, J.L. 2014. "The Creation and Configuration of Infrastructure for Entrepreneurship in Emerging Domains of Activity.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38 (4): 721-747.

Sarangee, K., Woolley, J.L., Schmidt, J., Long, E. 2014. "De-escalation Mechanisms in High Technology Product Innovation." Journal of Product Innovation Management, 31(5): 1023–1038.

Woolley, J.L. 2014. "Opportunities for Social Value Creation across Supply Chain Interactions.” Emerging Research Directions in Social Entrepreneurship edited by Larry Pate and Charles Wankel. New York: Springer. pp 51-66.

Woolley, J.L. 2014. "Nascent Technology Entrepreneurship Supply Chain Emergence.” Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship edited by François Thérin. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 304-324.

Bruno, A.V., Woolley, J.L., & Carlson, E. 2014. "An Empirical Analysis of the Missions, Funding Sources, and Survival of Social Ventures.” In JHU Research Series on Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Theory and Empirical Research in Social Entrepreneurship edited by P. Phan, J. Kickul, M. Nordqvist. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 174-190.

Madsen, T.L., Woolley, J.L., & Sarangee, K. 2014." Using Internet-based Collaboration Technologies for Innovation: Crowdsourcing vs. Expertsourcing." In New Directions in Management and Organization Theory edited by J. Miles. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp.283-314.

Woolley, J.L., Bruno, A.V., & Carlson, E. 2013. "Social Venture Business Model Archtypes.” Journal of Management for Global Sustainability 1(2): 7-30.

Granqvist, N., Grodal, S., & Woolley, J.L. 2013. "Hedging Your Bets: Explaining Executives’ Labeling Strategies in Nanotechnology.” Organization Science 24(2) 395-413.

Woolley, J.L. 2011. "Studying the Emergence of New Organizations: Entrepreneurship Research Design.” Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 1 (1) Article 5.

Alvarez, S.A., Young, S.L., & Woolley, J.L. 2011. "The Creation of the World's Deadliest Catch." Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, 31 (25): 3.

Woolley, J.L. 2010. "Technology Emergence through Entrepreneurship across Multiple Industries.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 4 (1) 1-21.

Delbecq, A.L., Griffith, T.L., Madsen, T., & Woolley, J.L. 2010. "A Decision Process Model to Support Timely Organizational Innovation.” In P.C. Nutt & D. Wilson (Eds.) The Blackwell Handbook of Decision Making (pp. 197-230). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Woolley, J.L. 2009 "Innovation Policy in Emerging Domains of Activity: First-Mover Advantage or Curse?” In S.E. Cozzens & P. Catalán (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2009 Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, (pp. 1-4).

Woolley, J.L. & Rottner, R.M. 2008. "Innovation Policy and Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship.” Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 32(5): 791-811.

Schoonhoven, C.B. & Woolley, J.L. 2005. "Top Management Teams In An International Context.” In D.L. Shapiro, M.A. Von Glinow, & J.L.C. Cheng (Eds.) Managing Multinational Teams: Global Perspectives. Advances in International Management Research Series (Vol. 18, pp 251-280). Oxford: Elsevier/JAI.

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Jennifer L. Woolley, Ph.D.

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