Bringing Research-Based Insights to a Wider Audience: Our Partnership With Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

A key part of our mission at EIX is giving entrepreneurs access to new knowledge generated by top-notch academic research. As part of that mission, EIX has partnered with Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ), a leading journal in the field of entrepreneurship. Over the past two years, we’ve worked with SEJ editors and authors to identify recently accepted SEJ articles that offer insights relevant to practicing entrepreneurs. EIX editors have then worked with the authors to generate short, readable articles that condense each study’s key findings in ways useful to entrepreneurs and those who work with them.

Our partnership has helped increase SEJ’s impact by bringing high-quality research studies, and their practical takeaways, to people who wouldn’t find these studies on their own. Happily, our research translations have generated many thousands of page views.

Below are links to the articles we’ve translated to date. We’ll add to this list as our partnership continues. We’re delighted to make this content broadly available so that more people can learn and benefit from it, and we hope you enjoy it too.

Where Can Fintech Do the Most Good?

by Arzi Adbi and Siddharth Natarajan. Posted September 14, 2023

Many have predicted that mobile money and other fintech will replace traditional banks in impoverished countries. But our research showed that socially marginalized people need both. 

COVID Interventions Changed How Companies Hire

by David Lucas, Cristiano Bellavitis and David Park. Published June 19, 2023

Mature, established companies acted more like startups, successfully courting candidates with entrepreneurial mindsets.

What Matters More for Entrepreneurs: Book Smarts or Street Smarts?

by Regan Stevenson and Jared Allen. Published January 9, 2023

In this article, researchers looked at how cognitive intelligence and emotional intelligence each contribute to venture success.

Many startups benefit from a short-term focus

by Johan Bruneel, Stephan Weemaes and Ann Gaeremynck. Published November 21, 2022

New companies often don’t have the financial resources to wait for a long-term payoff. External board members help them weather the initial challenges.

Against the odds, women can still be powerful innovators

by Kristen Madison and colleagues. Published April 29, 2022

Our research into businesses in emerging countries shows that women in the most repressive societies still find ways to innovate, breaking through stereotypes and cultural expectations.

Is structure good or bad for startups?

by Andy Contigiani. Published February 8, 2022

Experimentation and planning are two distinct choices in running a venture. Which works better?

Founder-CEO passion in selling the IPO

by Michael Howard and colleagues. Published August 26, 2021

In this article, we ask: "Which matters more - the passionate storytelling of the original founder, or the reassuring messages coming from a seasoned executive?"

When does microfinance do the most good?

by Pushan Dutt and colleagues. Published May 7, 2021

To date, we've known relatively little about whether the reason for microfinance loans affects how much it helps the borrower. We explored that here.

In addition to the translations published above, we published the following article, which highlights some ways for scholars to learn from the insights of practitioners. In this way, our partnership underscores that learning can, of course, flow both ways – i.e., not just from research to practice, but from practice to research as well.

Today’s entrepreneurs can inform tomorrow’s research

by Gary Dushnitsky & Sharon Matusik. Published February 18, 2020