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
Knowledge Problems & Entrepreneurial Reasoning
How do entrepreneurs reason and act when the future is genuinely unknowable? This stream develops the theoretical foundations of Knightian uncertainty, maps the distinct types of knowledge problems — uncertainty, ambiguity, equivocality, and complexity — and explores the non-probabilistic reasoning strategies entrepreneurs deploy when standard decision tools fail.
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
How do entrepreneurs acquire, combine, and transform resources under conditions of deep uncertainty? This stream examines the full spectrum of resource mobilization — from equity financing and trade credit to crowdfunding and rhetorical strategy — and investigates how structural barriers shape who can mobilize resources and how.
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 the analytical tools and mapping the institutional architecture of the field. This stream includes comprehensive reviews that synthesize and redirect scholarship, multi-level frameworks for understanding complex organizational phenomena, and work that shapes how we study entrepreneurship itself.
Select Publications
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
Run simplified computational models. Watch the AI Information Paradox emerge. See markets collapse into involution traps.
Writings
Philosophical foundations for the cyborg era — the Daodejing and Qoheleth reimagined for human-AI collaboration.
Editorial Leadership
Field Editor at JBV. Editor-in-Chief of EIX. Guest Editor for AI & Entrepreneurship special issues.
The Integrative Work
Cyborg Entrepreneurship
All research streams converge in a forthcoming book that reframes entrepreneurship for an era of governed autonomy — where human judgment and machine intelligence constitute a new kind of entrepreneurial agent.
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