Robert Eberhart, Ph.D.
Anderson School of Business, University of California Los Angeles
Robert Eberhart
Visiting Associate Professor - Anderson School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles
My research focuses on the influence of institutional change on entrepreneurship, what drives institutional change, and the effect of those changes on the types of ventures that are founded and their performance. I also build on theories of institutions to discern how entrepreneurship is transforming society. This new stream of research is theorized in a series of papers in two Research on the Sociology of Organizations volumes on Entreprneueialism and Society.
Before my academic career, I spent ten years in the semiconductor industry and then founded and ran a successful company in Tokyo. Now, I make use of those experiences to inform my scholarship and teaching. Since earning my Ph.D. in 2014, I have published in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, and others. My academic work has won numerous awards from the Academy of Management, Responsible Research in Management, and the Western Academy of Management, among others. I am on the editorial board of Organization Science. My articles have also appeared in academic books by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Springer Publications.
ACCJ Tokyo Talk
Should Japan adopt the Silicon Valley model of economic growth?
I will present research, joint with Lounsbury and Rottner, that Japanese ventures adopt community values that emphasize employment when locally engaged.
May 2023
Research Presentation: Organization Studies Conference
Athens, Greece
Entrepreneurialism and the acceptance of inequality
May 2023
Institutions and Entrepreneurship Conference
The Legacy of the Samurai: shareholder and stakeholder logics in communities ventures
June 2023
Lake Tahoe Reversing the Arrow Conference
June 2023
UPCOMING EVENTS
MY LATEST RESEARCH NEWS
New Publication - September 2022
Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: Entrepreneurialism and the Changing Nature of Employment Relations
Robert Eberhart
Stanford University
Stephen Barley
University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Nelson
University of Oregon
Forthcoming RSO Volume: “Entrepreneurialism and Society: New Theoretical Perspectives”
To be Presented:
London School of Business, March 15, 2022
Oxford Said School of Business Seminar Series, March 16, 2022
Western Academy of Management, March 18, 2022
University of North Carolina, April 3, 2022
EMLyon, May 12, 2022
New Video Discussion
Strategic Management Journal - VIDEO
"The Dark Side of Institutional Intermediaries: Junior Stock Exchanges and Entrepreneurship"
w/ C. Eesley
Policy Presentation at Mitsubishi Research Center Symposium with M. Cusumano
I presented a perspective on how open innovation can work - or miss - their targets. Thanks to Shigeo Kagami for inviting me.
Fireside Interview - UNC Kenan Flagler
The Ideology of Entreprenurship
New Publication - February 2021
Certification Relics: Entrepreneurship amidst Discontinued Certifications
Robert N. Eberhart
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
Daniel Armanios
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Organization Science, forthcoming
ABC News Interview
Should Facebook be regulated as a media company?
Interview at European Entrepreneurship Forum
RESEARCH INFORMS POLICY
Research insights from institutional perspectives were incorporated into policy efforts through a bi-lateral commission with members appointed by the US State Department and METI
Sweden Royal Institute of Technology
My research is assisting the institute to revise it country's bankruptcy laws. The report was handed over to Mikael Damberg, Minister of Enterprise and Innovation, at the 17 October, 2017. The report, "Entreprenörskap i det 21 århundradet, SOU 2016:72 (Entrepreneurship in the 21st century)" may be downloaded at the government’s webpage: