We are experts on elite entrepreneurs (Hwang & Phillips 2024) | VSSER25

#VSSER25 #Session1Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where we dive deep into the latest, most thought-provoking research published in the world’s top academic journals. If you’re a scholar, a researcher, or just someone with a relentless curiosity for knowledge, you’re in the right place.Today, we’re unpacking a groundbreaking paper published in Research in Organizational Behavior, a prestigious ABDC A-listed journal. The article, titled “We are experts on elite entrepreneurs”: A call to integrate marginalized populations into entrepreneurship research, is authored by Kylie J. Hwang and Damon J. Phillips and published by Elsevier.Entrepreneurship research has long focused on the elite—those with access to capital, networks, and privilege. But what about the rest? What about the entrepreneurs who don’t fit the mold, who come from marginalized backgrounds, who forge their own paths despite systemic barriers? Hwang and Phillips challenge the status quo, urging scholars to widen their lens and rethink how we define success, opportunity, and innovation.By centering their discussion on the relationship between employment and entrepreneurship, the authors reveal crucial gaps in our understanding. How does past entrepreneurial experience shape future job prospects? When does employment lead to entrepreneurship, rather than the other way around? And, most importantly, what new insights emerge when we stop looking only at the privileged few and start including the stories of those left out of the mainstream narrative?A huge thank you to Kylie J. Hwang and Damon J. Phillips for this compelling research, and to Elsevier for bringing it to light.If this discussion sparked your interest, don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and check out our YouTube channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to support independent academic content, consider joining us on Patreon.Now, here’s something to ponder: If our understanding of entrepreneurship is shaped by only the most privileged voices, what crucial insights are we missing?ReferenceHwang, K. J., & Phillips, D. J. (2024). “We are experts on elite entrepreneurs”: A call to integrate marginalized populations into entrepreneurship research. Research in Organizational Behavior, 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.riob.2024.100206Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher