Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind / International Studies in Entrepreneurship Bd.35 (PDF)

Malin Brännback, D.Sc., is Professor of International Business and Dean at Åbo Akademi University, where she received her doctoral degree in management cience in 1996. She also received a B.Sc. in pharmacy from Åbo Akademi University in 1986. In 2003 she was appointed Chaired Professor in International Business at Åbo Akademi University. She is Docent at the Turku School of Economics, where she taught prior to returning to Åbo, and she is Docent at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki (Hanken). She was visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at Stockholm Business School (Stockholm University) 2012-2014. She has held a variety of teaching and research positions in such fields as Information Systems, International Marketing, Strategic Management and Pharmacy. She has 200 publications in areas such as entrepreneurship, biotechnology business, and knowledge management. She has co-authored eight books with Alan Carsrud, including Entrepreneurship (Greenleaf Publishing, 2005), Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind (Springer, 2009), Understanding Family Businesses (Springer, 2012), and Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses (Edward Elgar, 2014). She is on the review board of Journal of Small Business Management. Her current research interests are in entrepreneurial intentionality, entrepreneurial cognition and entrepreneurial growth and performance in technology entrepreneurship, as well as social media use.







Alan L. Carsrud, Ph.D. Ec.D. (hc) is Visiting Research Professor and Docent at Åbo Akademi University in Turku (Åbo), Finland. His prior academic positions include the Loretta Rogers Chair in Entrepreneurship at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada; Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Professor of Hospitality Management and Executive Director of the Eugenio Pino & Family