Editors
Dan Schendel
Michael A. Hitt
Co-Editors, Strategic
Entrepreneurship Journal
The co-editors of the SEJ are Dan E. Schendel, Purdue University and Michael A. Hitt, Texas A&M University. DAN SCHENDEL is the Founding Editor of the SMJ and was the Editor-in-Chief since its start in 1980 until he relinquished those duties to three Co-Editors in January of 2007. He remains as the Founding and Consulting Editor of the SMJ. His long experience will be of value to helping launch the SEJ along with that of fellow co-editor, MIKE HITT. He was the Editor from 1991-1993 of the Academy of Management Journal, another management journal of high quality, well recognized throughout the world. Mike Hitt is widely published in books and scholarly journals, and his publishing experience along with that of Dan Schendel, will contribute to the development of quality content for the SEJ.
Associate Editors
Jay B. Barney is a Professor of Management and holds the Chase Chair for Excellence in Corporate Strategy at the Max M. Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and his master's and doctorate from Yale University. He taught at the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and Texas A&M University before joining the faculty at Ohio State in 1994 where Professor Barney teaches organizational strategy and policy to MBA and Ph.D. students. He has also taught in a variety of executive training programs at Ohio State. Professor Barney's research focuses on the relationship between firm skills and capabilities and sustained competitive advantage. He has published over seventy-five articles in a variety of journals and books. Professor Barney has consulted with a wide variety of public and private organizations, focusing on implementing large-scale organizational change and strategic analysis. In 1997, Professor Barney was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Lund. In 2003, he was elected as an Academy of Management Fellow, and in 2005 he received the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award in the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.
Robert A. Burgelman is the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and Director of the Stanford Executive Program of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He joined Stanford Business School in 1981. He holds a licenciate degree in Applied Economics from Antwerp University (Belgium, 1969), and an MA in Sociology (1978) and a Ph.D. in Management of Organizations (1980) from Columbia University, where he studied as a European Doctoral Fellow (Ford Foundation) and ICM Fellow (Belgium). In 2003 he received a honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen Business School for his contributions to the study of corporate innovation. He is the author of many articles in leading academic and professional journals, and of Strategy is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company’s Future (Free Press, 2002). He is co-author of Inside Corporate Innovation: Strategy, Structure, and Managerial Skills (Free Press, 1986), Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (4th edition, McGraw-Hill-Irwin, 2004), and Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases (McGraw-Hill, 2006). He currently serves on the board of advisors of Bitfone and on the board of directors of Shop.com.
Harry Sapienza holds the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies and is Co-Director of the Carlson School’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. His research focuses on various aspects of entrepreneurship including the interface between venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, trust, strategic decision-making, and the internationalization of high-technology ventures. He has published in such outlets as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and the Strategic Management Journal.
Sapienza is academic director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Carlson Ventures Enterprise. He has co-authored articles on a wide range of subjects, including the return on venture capital investments, social capital and knowledge acquisition in young technology-based firms, and decision-making of top management teams. In addition to leading the Carlson Ventures Enterprise, Sapienza teaches courses in venture capital management and entrepreneurship.