Organization theory | Entrepreneurship | Business history
Taking a long-term perspective on value creation
- Assistant Professor of Organization Theory
- Penn State Smeal College
- trevor.israelsen@psu.edu
Dr. Trevor Israelsen works to cultivate knowledge that can help the rising generation to think institutionally about how to build systems for lasting value creation
Research
Dr. Israelsen studies the management of history, traditions, legacies, heritage, and inheritance in organizations. He use qualitative and historical research methods to study forms of social and economic organization that achieve competitive position and resilience not only through economic efficiency but also by becoming embedded in enduring communities of stakeholders. Such institutions can include, for example, multigenerational family businesses, trust-owned businesses, business groups, foundations, heritage brands, estates, religious organizations, dynastic organizations, arts organizations, crafts, trades, professions, community-based organizations, and other institutions dedicated to preserving or maintaining a historical or cultural inheritance.
Recent Publications
Israelsen, T. & Mitchell, J. R. (Forthcoming). Historically Grounded Theory. In Nicholas Deal and Gabrielle Durepos (Editors). Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organization Studies.
Israelsen, T. & Suddaby, R. (Forthcoming). Inheritance as an organizational purpose. In Hamid Foroughi, Andrea Casey and Sonia Coman (Volume Editors). Organizational Legacy and Change. De Gruyter.
Israelsen, T. (2023) Entrepreneurial Conflation in American Business Dynasties. PhD. Dissertation. University of Victoria.
Mitchell, J.R., Israelsen, T., Mitchell, R.K., Hua, W., (2023) Ordinary Language and Dialogue in Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, Dialogue Paper.
Suddaby, R., Israelsen, T., Mitchell, J.R., & Lim, D. (2021), Entrepreneurial visions as rhetorical history: A diegetic narrative model of stakeholder enrollment, Academy of Management Review.
Mitchell, J.R., Israelsen, T., Mitchell, R.K., & Lim, D. (2021). Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence, Journal of Business Venturing, 36(6), 106146.
Suddaby, R., Israelsen, T., Bastien, F., Saylors, R., & Coraiola, D. (2022), Rhetorical History as Institutional Work. Journal of Management Studies
Israelsen, T. & Mitchell, R. (2022). Insightful empirical knowledge in grounded theory and historical organization studies. Handbook of Historical Methods in Management. Sage.
Suddaby, R., Schultz, M. & Israelsen, T. (2020). Autobiographical memory and identities in organizations: The role of temporal fluidity. In Andrew Brown (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. 373-390.
Mitchell, J.R., Israelsen, T. & Mitchell., R.K., (2020). Entrepreneurial cognition research—An update. In Michael Gielnick, Melissa Cardon, & Michael Frese (Eds.) SIOP Handbook on the Psychology of Entrepreneurship.
Suddaby, R., Jaskiewicz, P., Israelsen, T., & Chittoor, R. (2022). Traditional Authority in Social Context: Explaining the Relation between Types of Family and Types of Family-Controlled Business Groups. De Gruyter Handbook of Business Families. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110727968-022
Hua, W., Mitchell, R.K., Mitchell, B., Mitchell, J.R., & Israelsen, T., (2022). Momentum for Entrepreneurial Internationalization: Friction at the Interface between International and Domestic Institutions. Journal of Business Venturing.
Curriculum Vitae
Updated May 31, 2023
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