Schwab, Andreas

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Management and Entrepreneurship

The Department of Management and Entrepreneurship seeks to provide students with the knowledge of organizations and management functions within organizations. Graduates will be able to understand work-related behavior, competitive strategy and advantage, strategies of international business, and human-resource management practices.

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The Department of Management was formed in 1984 in the College of Business Administration (later College of Business).

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1984 - present

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Interorganizational triads for foreign-market entry: Partnerships among Western, bridge-economy, and local VCs in Mainland China

2024-01-01 , Zhang, Jing , Zhang, Wei , Schwab, Andreas , Management and Entrepreneurship

This study introduces the novel construct of bridge-economy partners, which can assist Western firms in learning how to collaborate with local partners when entering unfamiliar foreign countries that have substantially different socioeconomic characteristics. We offer initial empirical evidence regarding the relevance of establishing such interorganizational partnership triads among Western, bridge-economy, and local firms for the entries of Western venture capital firms (VCs) into Mainland China between 1997 and 2008. Venture age, regional legal maturity, and the Western VCs' accumulated local experience are identified as relevant contingency factors for the likelihood of adopting this type of collaboration, which involves partners from three different types of economies. We supplement our quantitative analyses with anecdotal qualitative evidence from interviews with VC executives and fund managers.

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Bayesian Analysis in Strategic Management Research: Time to Update Your Priors

2023-05-14 , McCann, Brian , Schwab, Andreas , Management and Entrepreneurship , Management

Bayesian statistical methods offer an important and increasingly endorsed alternative to traditional statistical significance testing. This paper presents a brief introduction to Bayesian methods, providing guidance to strategic management researchers who may wish to incorporate these methods into their research. We describe the advantages of Bayesian approaches and explain the steps involved in conducting and reporting a Bayesian analysis. For illustration, we provide a sample analysis, including all associated code using version 15 of Stata, which features significantly augmented Bayesian capabilities.

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Women Social Entrepreneurs in a Muslim Society: How to Manage Patriarchy and Spouses

2022-08-24 , Ummiroh, Isnaini , Schwab, Andreas , Dhewanto, Wawan , Management and Entrepreneurship , Management

This study investigates how women social entrepreneurs in Indonesia use various behaviors to address challenges to their leadership authority created by socioreligious patriarchal norms in this Muslim society. An exploratory study of six Muslim women social entrepreneurs was conducted employing multi-round, semi-structured interviews in a contrast sample of three women who work with their husbands and three women who work without their husband’s involvement. The study identifies a variety of leadership behaviors that women entrepreneurs use to mitigate the constraining impact of strong patriarchal religious gender norms. Observations revealed surprisingly effective micro adjustments often based on relationship-specific private negotiations between the entrepreneurs and their husbands. Future research focused on the husbands' perspectives and behaviors, as well as extensions to other patriarchal religions and societies are encouraged. Recognition of the crucial role of spousal relationships suggests the need for more holistic approaches to support women social entrepreneurship, for example, by integrating husbands into related outreach programs. Contributes to emerging research on the crucial role of spousal relationships for women’s entrepreneurship and the impact of private micro arrangements between spouses to mitigate the constraining impact of Muslim gender norms. Muslim women entrepreneurs approved of the religious gender norms that constrained them, in contrast to the more “feminist” perspectives common in women entrepreneurs in more secular and Christianity-dominated Western societies.

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Why and How to Replace Statistical Significance Tests with Better Methods to Evaluate Hypotheses

2020-07-29 , Schwab, Andreas , Starbuck, William , Management and Entrepreneurship , Management

This symposium will introduce and discuss how scholars can improve upon statistical significance tests, which continue to constrain the production of knowledge in management science. The extensive use of these tests in quantitative research has led to the accumulation of ""statistically significant"" results that are both too small to be practically relevant and so small that they are unlikely to replicate. A field that aspires to provide useful advice to managers needs to focus on practically important and robust effects. The proposed symposium introduces and discusses alternative approaches to overcome the limitations of statistical significance tests - such as, effect size measures, confidence intervals, graphs, meta-analyses, baseline modeling and the implications of these approaches for the accumulation of scientific knowledge. A final ""Question and Answer"" session will offer additional opportunities for further discussions, advice and recommendations.

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Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms

2024-01-01 , Gala, Kaushik , Schwab, Andreas , Mueller, Brandon A , Management and Entrepreneurship

This study extends emerging theories of star performers to digital platforms, an increasingly prevalent entrepreneurial context. It hypothesizes that the unique characteristics of many digital platforms (e.g., low marginal costs, feedback loops, and network effects) produce heavy-tailed performance distributions, indicating the existence of star entrepreneurs. Using longitudinal data from an online learning platform, proportional differentiation is identified as the most likely generative mechanism and lognormal distribution as the most likely shape for distributions of entrepreneurial performance in digital contexts. This study contributes theory and empirical evidence for non-normal entrepreneurial performance with implications for scholars and practitioners of digital entrepreneurship.

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How replication studies can improve doctoral student education

2023-02 , Schwab, Andreas , Aguinis, Herman , Bamberger, Peter , Hodgkinson, Gerard P , Shapiro, Debra L , Starbuck, William H , Tsui, Anne S , Management and Entrepreneurship

In addition to helping advance theory, replication studies offer rich and complementary learning experiences for doctoral students, enabling them to learn general research skills, through the process of striving to imitate good studies. In addition, students gain replication-specific methodological skills and learn about the important roles replications play for making management knowledge trustworthy. We outline best practices for enabling doctoral students and their supervisors to select studies to replicate, execute their replications, and increase the probability of successfully publishing their findings. We also discuss the crucial role of faculty mentors in supporting and guiding replication-based learning of doctoral students. Ultimately, educating doctoral students on how to execute high-quality replication studies helps to answer wider calls for more replication studies in the field of management, an important stepping stone along the journey toward open and responsible research.

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Impact of Age and Gender on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Fear of Entrepreneurial Failure

2022-07-06 , Schwab, Andreas , Parhankangas, Annaleena , Gang, Heyln , Management and Entrepreneurship

This study applies life-stage theory to investigate the still ill-understood effects of age on the behavioral tendencies of male and female entrepreneurs. Hypotheses for effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and fear of entrepreneurial failure are tested in a gender-stratified cross-sectional random sample using U.S. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data (2013 – 2018). Results support strong non-linear age effects and challenge the dominant assumptions in the established entrepreneurship literature that what we know about middle-aged entrepreneurs will more or less also hold for the increasingly important cohorts of junior and senior entrepreneurs. Age effects also differ substantially across gender. Taken together, these findings outline highly complex age effects and suggest the urgent need to account explicitly for both age and gender effects in models theorizing about entrepreneurial behavior and outcomes.

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Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches

2023-07 , Rider, Christopher I. , Wade, James B. , Swaminathan, Anand , Schwab, Andreas , Management and Entrepreneurship

The authors propose that racial disparity in organizational leadership representation will persist until valuative bias favoring white men ceases to influence advancement from the lower-level positions where most careers begin. They consider how racial disparity results from the organizational matching of individuals to positions with different advancement prospects (i.e., allocative bias) and by the provision of differential rewards within those positions (i.e., valuative bias). Analyzing career history data for over 1,300 National Football League coaches from 1985 to 2015, the authors find that white assistant coaches were promoted at higher rates than Black coaches—holding constant many factors including unit and individual performance—both before and after a league-wide intervention explicitly implemented to close the racial gap in leadership representation. They further demonstrate that this white promotion advantage is specific to the position typically occupied before promotion to head coach. Simulations demonstrate how racial disparity persists even absent bias in positional allocations; eliminating valuative bias at early career stages is, thus, necessary to achieve racial parity in leadership representation.

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Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Entrepreneurial emotions, Emotional authenticity, Facial expressions, Construct measurement

2023-01-18 , Schwab, Andreas , Shuumarjav, Yanjinlkham , Telkamp, Jake B , Beltran, Jose R , Management and Entrepreneurship

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in management research is still nascent and has primarily focused on content analyses of text data. Some method scholars have begun to discuss the potential benefits of far broader applications; however, these discussions have not led yet to a wave of corresponding AI applications by management researchers. This chapter explores the feasibility and the potential value of using AI for a very specific methodological task: the reliable and efficient capturing of higher-level psychological constructs in management research. It introduces the capturing of basic emotions and emotional authenticity of entrepreneurs based on their macro- and microfacial expressions during pitch presentations as an illustrative example of related AI opportunities and challenges. Thus, this chapter provides both motivation and guidance to management scholars for future applications of AI to advance management research.

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Habitual entrepreneurship in digital platform ecosystems: A time-contingent model of learning from prior software project experiences

2021-09-01 , Fan, Terence , Schwab, Andreas , Geng, Xuesong , Management and Entrepreneurship , Management

The emergence of large-scale digital platforms such as Facebook, Google Play and Apple App Store around 2008 has created opportunities for independent entrepreneurs to offer their self-developed software applications (“apps”) to large groups of platform users. The development and release of tens of thousands of apps by thousands of independent developers has created dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems. This paper investigates whether and how learning by independent habitual entrepreneurs unfolds in substantively different ways in such dynamic platform-based environments. We argue that in these entrepreneurial ecosystems, the timing of learning efforts becomes essential. For Facebook app developers, we find that learning from their own prior app projects remains feasible. However, entrepreneurs have only a few months during which they can benefit from what they learned from a prior app project. This study supports the feasibility of time-contingent learning from prior app projects for increasingly prevalent dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystems such as digital platforms. Implications for future research and management practice are outlined.

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