William Gartner

William B. Gartner is a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Linnaeus University in Sweden and the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College.

His scholarship spans a wide array of topics: entrepreneurship as practice, the social construction of the future, varieties of value creation and appropriation, “translating entrepreneurship” across cultures and countries, the poetics of exchange, fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination, and, the influence of legacy on entrepreneurial families.

We are accredited

The School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB.

Publications

Article in journal (Refereed)

Lubinski, C., Wadhwani, R.D., Gartner, W.B., Rottner, R. (2024). Humanistic approaches to change : Entrepreneurship and transformation. Business History. 66 (2). 347-363.
Status: Published
Singaram, R., Kraaijenbrink, J., Gartner, W.B. (2024). No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention. Entrepreneurship : Theory & Practice. 48 (2). 613-644.
Status: Published
Al-Dajani, H., Bang, N.P., Basco, R., Calabro, A., Cheng, J.C.Y., et al. (2024). A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research : expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 30 (9). 2185-2233.
Status: Published
Ramoglou, S., Gartner, W.B. (2023). A Historical Intervention in the "Opportunity Wars" : Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward. Entrepreneurship : Theory & Practice. 47 (4). 1521-1538.
Status: Published
Singaram, R., Radu-Lefebvre, M., Gartner, W.B. (2023). Gordian knot uncut : Understanding the problem of founder exit in social ventures. Journal of Business Venturing Insights. 19.
Status: Published
Mcadam, M., Clinton, E., Hamilton, E., Gartner, W.B. (2023). Learning in a Family Business Through Intermarriage : A Rhetorical History Perspective. Family Business Review. 36 (1). 63-83.
Status: Published
Randolph, A.F., Greenberg, D., Simon, J.K., Gartner, W.B. (2022). Exploring differences in the antisocial behaviors of adolescent rule-breaking that affect entrepreneurial persistence. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 28 (2). 471-499.
Status: Published
Cucchi, C., Lubberink, R., Dentoni, D., Gartner, W.B. (2022). 'That's Witchcraft' : Community entrepreneuring as a process of navigating intra-community tensions through spiritual practices. Organization Studies. 43 (2). 179-201.
Status: Published
Warhuus, J.P., Frid, C.J., Gartner, W.B. (2021). Ready or not? : Nascent entrepreneurs' actions and the acquisition of external financing. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 27 (6). 1605-1628.
Status: Published
Hlady-Rispal, M., Fayolle, A., Gartner, W.B. (2021). In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges. Journal of small business management (Print). 59 (5). 887-912.
Status: Published
Wadhwani, R.D., Kirsch, D., Welter, F., Gartner, W.B., Jones, G.G. (2020). Context, time, and change : Historical approaches to entrepreneurship research. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 14 (1). 3-19.
Status: Published
Gartner, W.B. (2019). A good man is hard to find : project management, entrepreneurship and serendipity. International Journal of Managing Projects in Business/Emerald. 12 (1). 114-119.
Status: Published
Dentoni, D., Pascucci, S., Poldner, K., Gartner, W.B. (2018). Learning "who we are" by doing : processes of co-constructing prosocial identities in community-based enterprises. Journal of Business Venturing. 33 (5). 603-622.
Status: Published
Welter, F., Baker, T., Audretsch, D.B., Gartner, W.B. (2017). Everyday entrepreneurship : a call for entrepreneurship research to embrace entrepreneurial diversity. Entrepreneurship : Theory & Practice. 41 (3). 311-321.
Status: Published
Nielsen, S.L., Gartner, W.B. (2017). Am I a student and/or entrepreneur? : multiple identities in student entrepreneurship. Education + Training. 59 (2). 135-154.
Status: Published
Ingram, A.E., Lewis, M.W., Barton, S., Gartner, W.B. (2016). Paradoxes and innovation in family firms : the role of paradoxical thinking. Entrepreneurship : Theory & Practice. 40 (1). 161-176.
Status: Published
Fayolle, A., Landström, H., Gartner, W.B., Berglund, K. (2016). The institutionalization of entrepreneurship : questioning the status quo and re-gaining hope for entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 28 (7-8). 477-486.
Status: Published
Frid, C.J., Wyman, D.M., Gartner, W.B., Hechavarria, D.H. (2016). Low-wealth entrepreneurs and access to external financing. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 22 (4). 531-555.
Status: Published
Frid, C.J., Wyman, D.M., Gartner, W.B. (2015). The influence of financial 'skin in the game' on new venture creation. Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal. 21 (2). 1-14.
Status: Published
Gartner, W.B. (2013). Creating a community of difference in entrepreneurship scholarship. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 25 (1-2). 5-15.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Refereed)

Ramoglou, S.E., Gartner, W.B., Tsang, E.W.K. (2018). Logic matters: A meta-theoretical analysis of the entrepreneur. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.
Gartner, W.B. (2018). Past, present and future. Understanding family entrepreneurship in successors’ prospective and retrospective thinking through visual narrative analysis. Paper presented at the Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Waterford (Ireland), June 6-9, 2018.
Gartner, W.B. (2017). Prosocial values, entrepreneurship and community organizing in shared consumption. Paper presented at the 33rd EGOS Colloquium, Copenhagen (Denmark), July 6-8, 2017..
Gartner, W.B. (2017). Consumer entrepreneurship as prosocial practice. Paper presented at the Journal of Business Venturing Special Issue Symposium “Enterprise Before and Beyond Benefit: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Prosocial Organizing”, London (Ontario), April 6-8, 2017..
Gartner, W.B., Ingram, A.E. (2013). What do entrepreneurs talk about when they talk about failure?. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research : Chapter VI. Entrepreneurial motivations. 1-14.

Book (Refereed)

Gartner, W.B. (2016). Entrepreneurship as organizing : selected papers of William B. Gartner. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Chapter in book (Refereed)

Gartner, W.B., Ellborg, K., Kiefer, T. (2021). What does entrepreneurship mean to you? : Using implicit entrepreneurship theory in the classroom. Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy – 2021. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing. 356-360.
Radu-Lefebvre, M., Lefebvre, V., Clarke, J., Gartner, W.B. (2020). Entrepreneurial legacy : how narratives of the past, present and future affect entrepreneurship in business families. A research agenda for family business. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing. 73-86.
Gartner, W.B., Teague, B.T. (2020). Introduction to the Research Handbook on Entrepreneurial Behavior, Practice and Process. Research handbook on entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process. Edward Elgar Publishing. 1-10.
Teague, B.T., Gartner, W.B. (2020). Expert skills : implications for studying the behavior of entrepreneurs. Research handbook on entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process. Edward Elgar Publishing. 12-29.
Lubinski, C., Gartner, W.B. (2020). History as a source and method for family business research. A research agenda for family business : a way ahead for the field. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing. 29-60.
Dentoni, D., Poldner, K., Pascucci, S., Gartner, W.B. (2017). Consumer entrepreneurship : what is it? When, how and why does it emerge?. Hybrid ventures : Perspectives and Approaches to Blended Value Entrepreneurship. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 187-218.
Teague, B.T., Gartner, W.B. (2017). Toward a theory of entrepreneurial behavior. The Wiley handbook of entrepreneurship. John Wiley & Sons. 71-94.

Collection (editor) (Refereed)

Gartner, W.B., Teague, B.T. (2020). Research handbook of entrepreneurial behavior, practice and process. Edward Elgar Publishing. 384.
Fayolle, A., Landström, H., Gartner, W.B., Berglund, K. (2018). Institutionalization of entrepreneurship research. Milton Park, UK, Routledge. 128.
Fayolle, A., Landström, H., Gartner, W.B., Berglund, K. (2018). Institutionalization of Entrepreneurship Research. London & New York, Routledge. 128.
Apfelthaler, G., Gartner, W.B., Kammel, A.J. (2017). Special Issue on: Entrepreneurship: Cross-National and Cross-Cultural Perspectives : One size does not fit all: generalising entrepreneurial insights in a world of differences. Geneva, InderScience Publishers.

Article in journal (Other academic)

Teague, B., Tunstall, R., Champenois, C., Gartner, W.B. (2021). Editorial: An introduction to entrepreneurship as practice (EAP). International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research. 27 (3). 569-578.
Status: Published
Nordqvist, M., Gartner, W.B. (2020). Literature, Fiction, and the Family Business. Family Business Review. 33 (2). 122-129.
Status: Published
Thompson, N., Verduijn, K., Gartner, W.B. (2020). Entrepreneurship-as-practice : grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 32 (3-4). 247-256.
Status: Published
Gartner, W.B., Stam, E., Thompson, N., Verduyn, K. (2016). Entrepreneurship-as-practice : grounding contemporary theories of practice into entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development. 28 (9-10). 813-816.
Status: Published
Gartner, W.B. (2015). Arts entrepreneurship : scope, practice and community. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts. 4 (2). 3-6.
Status: Published

Conference paper (Other academic)

Gartner, W.B. (2018). A multi-disciplinary approach to family entrepreneurship. Keynote Presentation at the BFI@SMU 5^th Anniversary Celebration and STEP APAC Summit 2018, Singapore, July 26-27, 2018.
Gartner, W.B. (2018). Developing legacy for sustainable family business. Keynote Presentation at the Developing Legacy for the Sustainable Family Business Conference, Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, Jakarta, Indonesia, August 2, 2018.
Gartner, W.B. (2018). What do Hollywood films say about entrepreneurship? Ten questions for the class room. Keynote Presentation at the USASBE Annual Conference, Los Angeles, USA, January 10-14, 2018.

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Gartner, W.B. (2021). Foreword. Women and Global Entrepreneurship : Contextualising Everyday Experiences. Routledge. xv-xvii.
Gartner, W.B. (2017). Anecdotes of destiny. The Routledge companion to the makers of modern entrepreneurship. Routledge. 130-145.
Gartner, W.B., Teague, B.T., Baker, T., Wadhwani, R.D. (2016). A brief history of the idea of opportunity. Research handbook on entrepreneurial opportunities : reopening the debate. Edward Elgar Publishing. 45-67.
Welter, F., Gartner, W.B. (2016). Advancing our research agenda for entrepreneurship and contexts. A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context. Edward Elgar Publishing. 156-160.
Welter, F., Gartner, W.B., Wright, M. (2016). The context of contextualizing contexts. A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context. Edward Elgar Publishing. 1-15.
Welter, F., Gartner, W.B. (2016). A reading list on entrepreneurship and contexts. A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context. Edward Elgar Publishing. 161-164.
Gartner, W.B. (2016). Narrating context. A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context. Edward Elgar Publishing. 146-155.
Gartner, W.B. (2014). Organizing entrepreneurship (research). Handbook of research on entrepreneurship : what we know and what we need to know. Edward Elgar Publishing. 13-22.
Gartner, W.B. (2014). Notes towards a theory of entrepreneurial possibility. Handbook of research on small business and entrepreneurship. Edward Elgar Publishing. 25-37.

Report (Other academic)

Reichstein, T., Sørensen, A., Kaiser, U., Sofka, W., Gartner, W.B., et al. (2015). The baton of entrepreneurship : CBS views on entrepreneurship. Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School. 13.

Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Friederike, W., Gartner, W.B. (2016). A research agenda for entrepreneurship and context. Edward Elgar Publishing. 172.

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Gartner, W.B. (2015). Ten haikus on “The Internet’s Own Boy”. M@n@gement. 18 (5). 370-371.
Status: Published

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Gartner, W.B. (2015). Foreword. The Routledge companion to entrepreneurship. Routledge. xxi-xxiii.