MENDOZA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY
For exceptionally impactful, visionary, and community-building contributions to the development of entrepreneurship research.
For almost three decades, Dean Shepherd has had an unparalleled impact on scholarly developments within the international community of entrepreneurship researchers.
His extraordinarily broad and methodologically varied research has had a profound influence on research on several central aspects of the entrepreneurial process. By engaging with topics such as entrepreneurial failure and emotions and by investigating entrepreneurship under challenging environmental conditions and adversity, he has led the way in asking and answering important but traditionally neglected and downplayed aspects of entrepreneurship.
His exceptionally productive engagement with researchers and research groups across the globe and his tireless mentoring of young entrepreneurship researchers have solidified and fortified the position of entrepreneurship as a distinctive and vibrant domain of research within the social sciences. In his mentoring and writing, he has pointed to the importance of research close to the researcher’s personal interests, thus underscoring the key role and gratifications of genuine engagement in the creative processes that result in high-quality research.
As a role model, promotor, and ambassador of entrepreneurship research at the highest theoretical and methodological levels, he has made contributions to the development of the domain of entrepreneurship research that are truly outstanding.
Documents
Dean A. Shepherd Biography.pdf