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David Scheaf

Assistant Professor - Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation

Contact Information

Email:  David_Scheaf@baylor.edu
Mailing Address:  One Bear Place #98011
Waco, TX  76706
Office Location:  Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation 210.38

Educational Background

  • PHD - Organizational Science, University Of North Carolina Charlotte
  • MA - Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Univ North Carolina Charlotte
  • BA - Psychology, Queens University Charlotte

Work Experience

  • Associate Professor, Baylor University (August 15, 2024 - Present)
  • Assistant Professor, Baylor University (August 15, 2018 - August 14, 2024)

Awards and Honors

  • Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Research Excellence Award, Baylor Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Department (June 2023)
  • 2023 Habicht Early Career Researcher Award, Hankamer Schoolf of Business (April 2023)
  • Journal of Small Business Management's Top 100 Reviewers, Journal of Small Business Management (December 24, 2020)
  • Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Research Excellence Award, Baylor Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation Department (June 24, 2020)
  • Journal of Business Venturing’s Best Reviewer of 2019, Journal of Business Venturing (March 6, 2020)

Publications

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs," Journal of Business Venturing, (September 2024) (coauthors: Laura D'Oria, Tim Michaelis, Michael Lerman).

"Navigating the Temporal Commitments of Entrepreneurial Hype: Insights from Entrepreneur and Backer Interactions in Crowdfunded Ventures," Journal of Business Venturing, (August 2024) (coauthors: Matthew Wood, Sean Dwyer).

"Non-Response Bias in Survey-based Entrepreneurship Research: A Review, Analyses, and Recommendations," Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, (November 2022) (coauthors: Andrew Loignon, Justin Webb, Eric Heggestad).

"Fake It Till You Make It: Hazards of a Cultural Norm in Entrepreneurship," Business Horizons, (December 2021) (coauthors: Matthew S Wood, Sean Dwyer).

"Entrepreneurial Fraud: A Multi-Disciplinary Review and Synthesized Framework," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, (February 2021) (coauthors: Matthew S Wood).

"An agentic perspective of resourcefulness: Self-reliant and joint resourcefulness behaviors within the entrepreneurship process.," Journal of Business Venturing, (December 2020) (coauthors: Timothy L. Michaelis, Jon C. Carr, Jeffrey M. Pollack).

"The Frugal Entrepreneur: A Self-regulatory Perspective of Resourceful Entrepreneurial Behavior," Journal of Business Venturing, (September 2019) (coauthors: Tim Michaelis, Jon C. Carr, Jeff Pollock).

"Measuring opportunity evaluation: Conceptual synthesis and scale development," Journal of Business Venturing, (April 2019) (coauthors: Andrew Loignon, Justin W. Webb, Eric H. Heggestad, Matthew S Wood).

"Signals’ flexibility and interaction with visual cues: Insights from crowdfunding.," Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 33, No. 6, (November 2018), pp. 720-741 (coauthors: Blakley Davis, Justin W. Webb, Joesph E. Coombs, Jared Borns, Garret Holloway).

"Scale adaptations in organizational sciences research: A review and best-practice recommendations," Journal of Management, (August 2018) (coauthors: Eric H Heggestad, George Banks, Mary Monroe, Scott Tonidandel, Eleanor Williams).

"Family Business. In Rogelberg, S. G. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Vol 2.," : Sage Publications, March 2017.

"Intrapreneurship. In Rogelberg, S. G. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Vol 2.," : Sage Publications, March 2017.

"Prospect Theory. In Rogelberg, S. G. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Vol 2.," : Sage Publications, March 2017.

Presentations and Proceedings

Basic or Discovery Scholarship

"Health in Entrepreneurship Research: Putting “Entrepreneurs Health” Front and Center," presented at the Academy of Management Annual Conference, Boston, MA, August 2023.
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