Entrepreneurship as institutional design
I ask how institutions allocate risk, recoverability, and opportunity across entrepreneurs, firms, workers, and communities.
Management · Entrepreneurship · Law
Institutions shape who gets to build.
I study how legal, political, and organizational institutions shape entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategic action. My work connects entrepreneurial ecosystems, governance, antitrust, and the institutional design of markets.
Strategy with evidence and pressure-testing
My courses emphasize rigorous case analysis, clear strategic judgment, and the discipline to test popular management ideas against research.
A cross-disciplinary advantage
My legal training lets me treat markets, firms, and entrepreneurial ecosystems as governed systems rather than neutral backdrops.
For search committees
The headline is not “entrepreneurship professor with a law degree.” It is a scholar of how institutions make entrepreneurial action more or less possible, with legal training used as a theory-building asset rather than a biographical aside.
What this site should communicate in 30 seconds
- A coherent research program at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, and institutional theory.
- A credible pipeline with top-journal ambition and a distinctive legal-institutional lens.
- Teaching competence across strategy, management, entrepreneurship, and legal environment courses.
- A professional identity that reads as ambitious, serious, and market-ready.
Core research question
How do institutions determine whether entrepreneurship becomes a mechanism of opportunity, innovation, and democratic resilience—or a mechanism for shifting risk onto individuals least able to absorb it?
Current research streams
Recoverability regimes
Entrepreneurial ecosystems are not merely resource pools. They are local institutional arrangements that determine whether founders can recover from setback, re-enter markets, and remain economically viable after failure.
Cooperative advantage
This stream develops a governance theory of entrepreneurial resource mobilization, explaining how ventures reduce diligence, monitoring, and contracting frictions when cooperation becomes credibly self-enforcing.
Competition, antitrust, and entrepreneurial markets
This work examines how law structures market entry, innovation incentives, and the boundaries of strategic behavior.
Entrepreneurship and democracy
This project examines how democratic institutions influence the composition of entrepreneurship and whether opportunity-driven entrepreneurship depends on institutional resilience.