Vartuhi Tonoyan

Biography

Vartuhi Tonoyan is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship (tenure track) since September 2013, having joined the Stevens Institute as Visiting Assistant Professor in September of 2011. Prior to that, I spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. She hold Doctorate Degree in Management (summa cum laude) from the University of Mannheim, Germany − an internationally accredited and one of the leading German universities in the fields of management, economics and social sciences. I received Diploma of Economics degree (with distinction) from the Yerevan State University of National Economy, Armenia. She speak and write fluently in Armenian, Russian, German and English.

Research Interest

Her research interests and fields center on: a) innovation; b) corruption, institutional environment and entrepreneurship; c) gender inequality in entrepreneurship; as well as d) emergence and development of high-technology industries and clusters. In my research, her utilize and combine theories from economics, sociology, and social/cognitive psychology and use various empirical methods (such as panel econometrics, large-scale survey analyses, cross-national comparisons as well as in-depth interviews). her regularly present my research at peer-reviewed international research conferences on entrepreneurship and management (such as Academy of Management; Babson College Conference on Entrepreneurship Research; Interdisciplinary European Conference on Entrepreneurship Research; and Diana International Research Conference).