Cyborg
Entrepreneurship
Where human judgment meets machine intelligence. We study how AI transforms entrepreneurial reasoning under deep uncertainty and what emerges when the boundary between self and system dissolves.
The Program
Research Streams
Generative Stream
Knowledge Problems & Entrepreneurial Reasoning
How entrepreneurs reason when the future is genuinely unknowable. Maps the four knowledge problems — uncertainty, ambiguity, equivocality, complexity — and the wise pragmatism that integrates probabilistic, non-probabilistic, and judgment-based reasoning under conditions of irreducible uncertainty.
Select Publications
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, & Entrepreneurial Action
Academy of Management Annals, 2018
Are the Futures Computable? Knightian Uncertainty & AI
Academy of Management Review, 2025
Chance, Probability, & Uncertainty at the Edge of Human Reasoning
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2024
Non-Probabilistic Reasoning in Navigating Entrepreneurial Uncertainty
Journal of Business Venturing, 2024
Pivot, Persist, or Perish?
Journal of Business Venturing: Insights, 2024
AI & Deep Tech Entrepreneurship
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes an active participant in the entrepreneurial process? This stream investigates how AI reshapes entrepreneurial ideation, competitive dynamics, platform governance, and the very nature of entrepreneurial work — from algorithmic hallucinations and epistemic risk to the structural acceleration of technological change.
Select Publications
From Algorithmic Hallucinations to Alien Minds
Journal of Business Venturing, 2026
The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Management Studies, 2026
Digital Battlegrounds: Power Dynamics & Governance of Platforms
Academy of Management Annals, 2025
Entrepreneurial Action, Creativity, & Judgment in the Age of AI
Journal of Business Venturing: Insights, 2019
Resource Mobilization & Business Model Design
Where do entrepreneurs find resources when uncertainty is deep? Equity, trade credit, crowdfunding, and the structural barriers that shape who gets to mobilize them.
Select Publications
The Expectations Game: Hype as Rhetorical Strategy among AI Startups
Journal of Business Venturing, 2025
Black Entrepreneurship: Opportunities & Impediments
Journal of Business Venturing, 2026
Turning Water into Wine? Dynamic Capabilities in Early-Stage Capitalization
Journal of Business Venturing, 2015
A Review and Roadmap of Entrepreneurial Equity Financing
Journal of Management, 2017
A Tale of Two Impacts: Gender & Economic Policy Uncertainty
Journal of Business Venturing: Insights, 2024
Methods & Infrastructure
Building analytical tools and mapping the field's institutional architecture — review papers that redirect literatures, multi-level frameworks, and infrastructure work like the Digital Battlegrounds platform analysis.
Select Publications
Making Words Count: Computational Linguistics in Management Research
Journal of Management, 2026
Red Giants or Black Holes? Star Performers Across Levels
Academy of Management Annals, 2021
Performance Deviations & Acquisition Premiums
Strategic Management Journal, 2016
Digital Battlegrounds: Power Dynamics & Governance of Platforms
Academy of Management Annals, 2025
The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Management Studies, 2026
Interactive Simulations
Experience the paradox of future knowledge. Run simplified models. Watch markets collapse into involution traps.
Writings
The Wisdom Traditions quartet — Daodejing, Heraclitus, Qoheleth, and the Upanishads — alongside essays and stories for the cyborg era.
Editorial Leadership
Field Editor at JBV. Editor-in-Chief of EIX. Guest Editor for AI & Entrepreneurship special issues.
The Integrative Work
Cyborg Entrepreneurship
A forthcoming book reframes entrepreneurship for an era when human judgment and machine intelligence form a single entrepreneurial agent.
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