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Ph.D., in Business Administration (Business Policy)
University of Washington,
1982
Dissertation: "An Empirical Model of the Business Startup, and Eight
Entrepreneurial Archetypes" (1983 Heizer Award Winner, Academy of
Management)
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Master of Business Administration (Business Policy),
University of Washington,
1977
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Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting),
University of Washington,
1975
William B. Gartner is the Arthur M.
Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson
University. Before coming to Clemson University he taught at: the
University of Virginia, Georgetown University, San Francisco State
University and the University of Southern California. He is one of
the co-founders of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium, which
initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial
Dynamics (PSED):
www.psed.info. He was the lead editor of The Handbook of
Entrepreneurial Dynamics, which provides an overview of the PSED
research project. He is the 2005 winner of the FSF-NUTEK Award for
outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship and small business
research. His has also won awards from the Academy of Management,
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Babson-Kauffman
Entrepreneurship Research Conference. His research has been funded
by the Small Business Administration, Kauffman Foundation, Coleman
Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Small Business Foundation
of America, the Corporate Design Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts. His current research focuses on two broad
topic areas: entrepreneurial narrative and entrepreneurial
behavior. Research on entrepreneurial narrative explores: (a) the
kinds of stories that entrepreneurs tell about their business
development efforts, (b) the ways that stories are used to raise
financing and generate support, and, (c) the insights that can be
ascertained through new methods in evaluating entrepreneurial
discourse. Research on entrepreneurial behavior uses the PSED to
explore how nascent entrepreneurs: find and identify opportunities,
recognize and solve startup problems, and undertake actions to
successfully launch new ventures. In January 2009, his
entrepreneurship and small business textbook, Enterprise, was
published by Cengage. |
