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Dean A. Shepherd

Business, Management and Accounting · Indiana University

OpenAlex ORCID
Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesPrivate Equity and Venture CapitalInnovation and Knowledge ManagementInnovation and Socioeconomic DevelopmentFamily Business Performance and Succession

Publications

501

Citations

57,435

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

36

Publishing since 1991

Research summary
AI-generated

Dean A. Shepherd studies entrepreneurship, focusing on how people identify and pursue business opportunities and the psychological and social processes involved in starting and growing ventures. His work spans topics such as how entrepreneurs think and make decisions, the darker sides of entrepreneurship (fraud, corruption, and illegal or destructive venturing), and how factors like gender, appearance, inequality, and social context shape who succeeds. Recent research also examines entrepreneurship in underserved and non-Western settings.

Entrepreneurial cognition and decision-makingDestructive and illegal entrepreneurshipInequality and social venturingVenture financing and investor evaluationNon-Western and context-specific entrepreneurship

Publication activity has remained steady and high across the decade, averaging around 14 papers per year over the last five years with some year-to-year fluctuation.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 13.8/year recently
2017: 24 publications172018: 24 publications182019: 18 publications192020: 14 publications202021: 23 publications212022: 17 publications222023: 13 publications232024: 25 publications25242025: 11 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks×23
  • Journal of Business Venturing×22
  • Academy of Management Proceedings×21
  • Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice×19
  • Journal of Management×11

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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