William B. Gartner, Ph.D.
Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Behavioral Science
William B. Gartner became the Arthur M. Spiro Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership at Clemson University on June 1, 2004. Prior to joining Clemson University, he was on the faculty at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, San Francisco State University, and, the Henry W. Simonsen Chair of Entrepreneurship at the University of Southern California (USC). While at USC he helped lead their program to Success Magazine's #1 ranking for entrepreneurship programs in 1998, and top 5 rankings for entrepreneurship programs in U.S. News and World Report and Business Week.
He co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium in 1995, which initiated, developed and managed the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), the first major national longitudinal dataset on nascent entrepreneurship. He served as lead editor on a comprehensive overview of the PSED, the Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, which was published by Sage in 2004. In November 2004, he hosted the first annual Clemson University /Kauffman Foundation Symposium on the PSED which focused on recent scholarly work on this dataset.
His service to the entrepreneurship field has included two consecutive terms as Chair of the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division (1985 + 1986), special issue editorships for the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP), and Editorial Board memberships with the Academy of Management Review (AMR), Journal of Management (JOM), JBV, ETP, and the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM). His research has: been published in AMR, JBV, ETP, JOM and JSBM; and he has won awards from the Academy of Management, ETP, and the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference. His research has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, Coleman Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Small Business Foundation of America, the Los Angeles Times, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the Corporate Design Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His current research on nascent entrepreneurs explores how they: find and identify opportunities, recognize and solve startup problems, and undertake actions to successfully launch new ventures. He is also collecting and analyzing the stories entrepreneurs tell about their entrepreneurial adventures.
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