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Daniel Clark

Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship

Donald G. and Elizabeth R. Ness Estate Fellowship in Entrepreneurship

Daniel Clark

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Expertise

  • Entrepreneurial Cognition
  • Decision-Making
  • International Entrepreneurship
  • Opportunity Identification & Evaluation

Research Publications

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Daniel Clark is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Ivey Business School. He is a finalist and/or winner of numerous awards for his teaching, research, and reviewing. His research has been published in outlets such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Journal of Small Business Management, and Business Horizons. In 2020, he was appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Small Business Management.

His current research explores the cognition and decision-making of entrepreneurs; in particular, how entrepreneurs make complex decisions about starting, growing, and internationalizing their ventures.

Born and raised in Ontario, he is a prolific traveler who has lived in three additional countries, visited more than forty more, and is now back living in Canada for the first time since 2012. Father, husband, dog-owner, and nursing a significant addiction to the Food Network; his family is happy he stopped after 4 degrees.

Programs Taught

  • HBA
  • MBA
  • MSc

Education

  • PhD. Indiana University
  • MB Indiana University
  • MBA Queen’s University
  • BSc Dalhousie University

Recent Refereed Articles

  • Clark, D. C.; Covin, J. G.; Pidduck, R. J., (Forthcoming), "Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation: Scale Development and Validation", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
  • Clark, D. C.; Pidduck, R. J., 2024, "International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship", Journal of Small Business Management, August 62(3): 1 - 23.
  • Pidduck, R. J.; Clark, D. C.; Zhang, Y. J., 2024, "Cultivating entrepreneurial human capital in multinational corporations: An intercultural paradox mindset lens", Journal of World Business, August 59(5)
  • Clark, D. C.; Hunt, R. A., (Forthcoming), "The Challenge and Opportunity of a Quantum Mechanics Metaphor in Organization and Management Research: A Response to Shelef, Wuebker, and Barney’s “Heisenberg Effects in Experiments on Business Ideas”", Academy of Management Review
  • Pidduck, R. J.; Clark, D. C., (Forthcoming), "Alert during what? Beyond the “Big O” to a culturally-cognizant, process view of entrepreneurial alertness", Asia Pacific Journal of Management
  • Clark, D. C.; Bradley, K., 2024, "Entrepreneurial Leadership: Putting the “U” in Team", Business Horizons, March 67(2): 183 - 198.
  • Clark, D. C., (Forthcoming), "Generating entrepreneurial imaginativeness from intercultural Janusian thinking", European Management Journal
  • Clark, D. C.; Tietz, M. A., (Forthcoming), "Surviving to Long-Term Thriving Through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: An Extension to Jeffrey McMullen’s “Real Growth Through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian”", Academy of Management Review, January 0
  • Clark, D. C.; Pidduck, R. J.; Lumpkin, G. T.; Covin, J. G., 2024, "Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!", Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, January 48(1): 349 - 391.
  • Clark, D. C., 2023, "Embracing whistleblowing for enhanced firm self-regulation", Business Horizons, November 66(6): 817 - 833.
  • Clark, D. C., 2023, "Exceptionality in Entrepreneurship: Systematically Investigating Outlier Outcomes.", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, November 20
  • Clark, D. C.; Tietz, M. A.; Kumar, M., 2023, "Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics", Journal of Small Business Management, September 61(5): 1 - 41.
  • Pidduck, R. J.; Clark, D. C.; Lumpkin, G. T., 2023, "Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior", Journal Of Small Business Management, January 61(1): 45 - 79.
  • Pidduck, R. J.; Shaffer, M. A.; Zhang, Y.; Clark, D. C., 2022, "Unpacking the emergence of born global founders: A careers perspective", Journal Of Small Business Management, November 60(5): 1 - 41.
  • Clark, D. C.; Pidduck, R.; Tietz, M. A., 2022, "The Malleability of International Entrepreneurial Cognitions: A Natural Quasi-Experimental Study on Voluntary and Involuntary Shocks", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, March 28(3): 741 - 766.

For more publications please see our Research Database

Honours & Awards

  • IE Business School, Top Instructor, 2020 & 2021
  • AOM Best Reviewer, Entrepreneurship (2014 & 2017)
  • AOM Best Reviewer, International Management (2017, 2018 & 2019)
  • AIB Best Reviewer (2013, 2014 & 2019)
  • AOM Entrepreneurship Division Best Paper from a Doctoral Dissertation (2015)
  • AIB Best Dissertation, Finalist
  • AOM Best Dissertation, Finalist
  • Kelley School of Business, Top PhD Instructor, 2017
  • Kelley School of Business, Panschar Teaching Award, Finalist, 2016

Experience

  • IE Business School, Madrid, Spain (2018-2021)
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (2012-2017)

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