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Academic Background

B.A., English, Miami University (Ohio)
M.B.A., University of Virginia
Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research Specialties

• Early stage ventures
• Effect of organizational values on employee creativity
• Ethics and entrepreneurship
• Opportunity recognition
• Resource acquisition in entrepreneurship
  

Current Research

• Entrepreneurship and innovation
• Launching entrepreneurial ventures
  

Major Works

• “From Rational to Wise Action: Recasting our Theories of Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Ethics 92:4 (2010): 513-530.
• Dunham, L., J. McVea, and R. E. Freeman, “Entrepreneurial Wisdom: Incorporating the Ethical and Strategic Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Decision-Making,” International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 6:1 (2008): 8-19.
• “Entrepreneurship as Creative Market Action: A Framework for Identifying the Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurial Ethics,” Business and Professional Ethics Journal 26 (2007): 3-39
• Freeman, R.E., L. Dunham, and J. McVea, “Strategy, Wisdom and Stakeholder Theory: A Pragmatic and Entrepreneurial View of Stakeholder Strategy.” In Handbook Of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom, edited by Eric H. Kessler and James R. Bailey, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007.
• "Enhancing Stakeholder Practice: A Particularized Exploration of Community," Business Ethics Quarterly (2006).   
• Dunham, Laura and S. Venkataraman, "From Rational to Creative Action: Recasting our Theories of Entrepreneurship," Darden School Working Paper, DSWP-02-06, 2002.
• Dunham, Laura and R.E. Freeman, "There is Business Like Show Business: Leadership Learnings from the Theater," Organizational Dynamics 29 (2000): 108-122.
  

Conference Presentations

• "The Ethical Dimensions of Creative Market Action: A Framework for Identifying Issues and Implications of Entrepreneurial Ethics." Paper presented at the Carlson Ethics and Entrepreneurship Conference, 2006.
• "Entrepreneurial Wisdom: Incorporating the Ethical and Strategic Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Decision-Making." Paper presented at the Carlson Ethics and Entrepreneurship Conference, 2006.