Pittaway, Luke
Director & Copeland Professor of Entrepreneurship
College of Business
Ohio Business College
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Luke Pittaway is the Copeland Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Ohio University (Athens, OH). He also holds a senior leadership role within the Department of Management including scheduling, junior faculty mentoring and area coordination for entrepreneurship programs and new program development. He was formerly the William A. Freeman Distinguished Chair in Free Enterprise and the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Learning and Leadership at Georgia Southern University where he managed programs in entrepreneurship until May 2013. Dr. Pittaway has previously worked at the University of Sheffield (UK), Lancaster University (UK) and the University of Surrey (UK). He has been a Research and Education Fellow with the National Council of Graduate Entrepreneurship and an Advanced Institute of Management Research Scholar. He is on a number of editorial boards including: International Small Business Journal; International Journal of Management Reviews; and, the Service Industries Journal.
Research Interest
Dr. Pittaway’s research focuses on entrepreneurship education and learning and he has a range of other interests including: entrepreneurial behavior; networking; entrepreneurial failure; business growth; and, corporate venturing.
Publications
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Pittaway, L., Holt, R. and Broad, J., 2014, 'Synthesising Knowledge in Entrepreneurship Research: The Role of Systematic Literature Reviews', In Chell, E. and Karataş-Özkan, M. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, London. Pp. 83-105.
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Jones, K., Sambrook, S., Pittaway, L. and Henley, A. 2014, ‘Action Learning: How Learning Transfers from Entrepreneurs to Small Firms’, Action Learning: Research and Practice, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 131-166.
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Pittaway, L. and Tunstall, R., 2016, ‘Is there a Heffalump in the room? Examining Paradigms in Historical Entrepreneurship Research’, Advances in Critical Entrepreneurship Studies, Routledge, London.
