UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research

Center research focuses on enhancing our understanding of entrepreneurial career choice, entrepreneurial actions (innovation, new entries, initial public offerings) and their antecedents (boards of directors, top management teams) in public corporations and private businesses, inclinations to launch new ventures, and practical suggestions to enhance firm survivability once launched.  In addition, past research focuses on increasing international opportunities in emerging markets and UC is one of the founding members of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium (ERC) Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) dedicated to a longitudinal examination of new venture creation from nascency.  Recent research includes:

• Gentry, R. J., Dalziel, T., & Jamison, M. A. 2012. New Market Entries in the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Industry: A Study of Imitation by Start-ups. Small Business Institute Proceedings.
• Woods, J. A., Dalziel, T., & Barton S. L. 2012. The effect of outside board members on escalation of commitment in private family businesses. Small Business Institute Proceedings.
  
• Woods, J. A., Dalziel, T., & Barton S. L. 2012. Escalation of commitment in private family businesses: The effect of outside board members. Journal of Family Business Strategy, Forthcoming.
• Gentry, R. J., Dalziel, T., & Jamison, M. A. 2012. Who do start-up firms imitate? A study of new market entries in the CLEC industry. Journal of Small Business Management, Forthcoming.
• Dalziel, T., Gentry, R.J. & Bowerman, M. 2011. An integrated agency-resource dependence view of the influence of directors’ human and relational capital on firms’ R&D spending. Journal of Management Studies, 48: 1217-1242.
• Dalziel, T., White, R.E., & Arthurs, J.D. 2011. Principal costs in initial public offerings. Journal of Management Studies, 48: 1346-1364.
• Knapp, J.R., Dalziel, T., & Lewis, M. W. 2011. Governing top managers: Board control, social categorization, and their unintended influence on discretionary behaviors. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 19: 295–310.
• Bowerman, M. & Dalziel, T.  2010. Is committee selection an intelligent process?  Committee experience and prior function fulfillment as antecedents of board appointments. SMS Rome.
• Dalziel, T., White, R.E., Arthurs, J.D., & Hoskisson, R.E. 2010. Initially distracted:  The influence of boards on agency costs in initial public offering (IPO) firms. In D. Audretsch, G.B. Dagnino, R. Faraci & R.E. Hoskisson (Eds.), New Frontiers in Entrepreneurship: Recognizing, seizing, and executing opportunities. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, 26: 11-30, Springer.
  
• Schenkel, Mark T., Matthews, Charles H., & Ford, Matthew W. (2009). “Making rational use of ‘irrationality’? Exploring the role of need for cognitive closure in nascent entrepreneurial activity.” Entrepreneurship & Regional Development,21:1, 51-76.
• Smith, B.R., Matthews, C. H., & Schenkel, M. T. (2009). “Differences in Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Role of Tacitness and Codification in Opportunity Identification.” Journal of Small Business Management, 47:1, 38-57
• Dalziel, T., Hom, P., and Bowerman, M.L. 2009. A multilevel model of turnover among outside board directors. AOM Chicago.
• Arthurs, J.D., Dae-Il, N., Dalziel, T., & White, R.E. 2009. Distractions, monitoring, and agency costs in the initial public offering. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
• White, R.E. Arthurs, J.D., Hoskisson, R.E. and Dalziel, T. 2008. Can Governance Mechanisms Interfere with Corporate Elites' Fiduciary Duties?  The Case of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. SMS Cologne.
• Knapp, J. & Dalziel, T. 2007. Agency theory and the effects of cognitive social categorization. Academy of Management Proceedings.
• Heriot, K., Cook, R., Matthews, C., & Simpson, L., 2007. "Creating Active and High-Impact Learning." Industry & Higher Education, December, 427-434.
• Dalziel, T., White, R.E., Arthurs, J.D., Hoskisson, R.E. 2007. Too many masters? How governance mechanisms promote the wrong behaviors byagents in IPOs. SMS Catania.
• Dalziel,T., Arthurs, J.D., & White. R.E. 2007. The influence of TMT humanand social capital on corporate entrepreneurship. AOM Philadelphia.
• Dalziel,T., Arthurs, J.D., & White. R.E. 2006. The influence of TMT humanand social capital on corporate entrepreneurship: Why TMT socialcapital is not always beneficial. Research Colloquium 2006: Strategic Entrepreneurship: The role of networking. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
• Dalziel,T. 2006. Leading transaction costs out? The influence of CEO leadershipstyle on coordination & motivation costs of small firms. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
• Dalziel, T. 2006. Directing entrepreneurship in corporations. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia.
• Stephens, P., Evans, J., & Matthews, C., 2005.  "The Importance and Implementation of Baldridge Practices for Small Business." Quality Management Journal, 12:3, pp.21-38.
• Smith, B., Matthews, C., & Schenkel, M., 2005.  "The Search for and Discovery of Different Types of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: The Effects of Tacitness and Codification." Frontiers in Entrepreneurship Research, Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference, Wellesley, MA.
• Dalziel, T. 2005. "The influence of boards and top management teams on corporate innovation." Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida.
• Dalziel, T. 2005. Corporate Entrepreneurship: A writer's workshop. Academy of Management Annual Meeting. Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Ford, M., Evans, J., & Matthews C., 2004.  "Linking Self-Assessment to the External Environment: An Exploratory Study." International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 24:11, pp. 1175-1187.
• Ford, M., Matthews, C., and Baucus, M., 2004.  “Strategic Cognitions of the Entrepreneur and Planning Formality in Nascent Firms: An Empirical Study.”  Presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, New Orleans, August.
• Matthews, C. & Schenkel, M., 2004.  “Recognizing Entrepreneurial Opportunity: The Need for Closure.”  Presented at the 2004 Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, June.
• Lonier, T. & Matthews, C., 2004.  “Measuring the Impact of Social Networks on Entrepreneurial Success: The Master Mind Principle.”  Presented at the 2004 Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, June.

Outreach Activities

The Center's activities include: (1) a award winning faculty-guided, student-based field case study program which provides consulting services for local businesses (Small Business InstituteÒ Program), (2) the Young Entrepreneurs Seminar (YES), a day-long event for high school seniors to meet and exchange ideas with local entrepreneurs, (3) the UC MBA New Venture Competition (internal) and the UC Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition (invitational), (4) CEO Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization, and (5) the Cecil Boatright Business Plan Case Competition for best Field Case of the Year.  In addition to the Center's activities, The UC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) offers six entrepreneurship and small business courses in the Communiversity Program.  The University is also affiliated with two local incubators, The Hamilton County Business Development Center and BioStart Technology Incubator.  Dr. Matthews is the co-founder of Cincinnati Creates Companies, an NSF funded technology entrepreneurship program.  Over 40 nascent technology ventures and 100 entrepreneurs have completed the program in its first four years.

Future Directions

The University of Cincinnati Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research is actively engaged in continuing a collaborative effort with other colleges of the University, such as Engineering, Medicine, Law, and Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning in order to advance the role of technology and entrepreneurship across the campus. 

For More Information

Dr. Charles H. Matthews, Executive Director, UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner Hall, Cincinnati, OH  45221-0165.  Phone: 513-556-7133; fax: 513-556-5499; email: ecenter@uc.edu; web site: www.business.uc.edu/centers/entrepreneurship.