About Robert

Robert Vesco

I'm doctoral student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

I want people to pursue opportunities and happiness and I believe entrepreneurship is one important way people can do that.

My research interests include understanding (a) why some areas are more entrepreneurial than others, (b) what drives people to pursue entrepreneurship, and (c) how can policies foster effective and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Does the media affect entrepreneurial intentions and entry?

Note: This analysis is not peer-reviewed or cross-checked so caution is needed in drawing any conclusions, but I put this out there in hopes that it might spark conversation. Moreover, this study is correlational in design. I use no fancy natural or quasi-experiments to get at the causality of media (which is a very hard [...]

Separating commodity manufacturing from its innovation base is a bad idea in the long-run. Was David Teece prescient?

Teece's 1986 piece on profiting from innovation makes the following claim:

"The trend in international business towards what Miles and Snow [7] call "dynamic networks" - characterized by vertical disintegration and contracting - ought thus be viewed with concern. (Business Week, March 3, 1986, has referred to the same phenomenon as the [...]

Top Words Used in Titles of Top Strategic Management Journals

The following table was created from citation data from Academy of Management Review (AMR), Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) , Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) , Management Science (MS), Organizational Science (OS) and the Strategic Management Journal (SMJ). The time period is approximately 2000-2008. There's a lot more I would have liked to have done, but [...]

Top Journals in Management and Strategy

Each business school, and each department/sub discipline within that school, has a set of journals that measure faculty performance. On the strategy side of the department of management and organization at U of Maryland's business school these six journals are considered A-level.

Academy of Management Review

The mission of the Academy of Management Review (AMR) [...]

What do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research

What do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research.

Worth checking out if you want a high-level overview of what's been done in this space and the various schools of thought.

Social Entrepreneurship Research

Looking for social entrepreneurship research online can be a challenge. There just doesn't seem to be that many good sources around. To aid in this issue, the University Network, formed by Ashoka, the Skoll Centre, and several other partners, combined their forces to create a resource hub around promoting social entrepreneurship. While there are no [...]