Jon Carr

About

Dr. Jon C. Carr is the Jenkins Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at North Carolina State University. He previously served on the faculties of Texas Christian University and the University of Southern Mississippi, and received his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University. His research focuses on three general domains within management: entrepreneurship, family business, and organizational behavior, as well as the interface between these areas. His work has been published in prominent journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Management. Notably, his research on the concept of 'Familiness' in family businesses, published with Allison Pearson and John Shaw, received an Emerald Citation of Excellence as one of the top fifty articles in management, business, and economics over a five-year span. Dr. Carr has obtained several million dollars in external funding as a principal investigator, including from NASA and the U.S. Department of Labor, and has collaborated with organizations like Lockheed-Martin’s Earth Observation and Exploration Division, mainly on strategic planning, technology transfer, commercialization, and business model innovation. He is actively involved in his professional domain, serving as an associate editor for the Family Business Review and as a reviewer and special issue editor for several journals related to entrepreneurship…

Research topics

• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Process management
• Management science
• Psychiatry
• Marketing
• Finance

Selected publications

• An agentic perspective of resourcefulness: Self-reliant and joint resourcefulness behaviors within the entrepreneurship process

  Journal of Business Venturing · 2020 · 67 citations

  PublisherDOI

• Psychological Antecedents of Decision Comprehensiveness and Their Relationship to Decision Quality and Performance in Family Firms: An Upper Echelons Perspective

  Family Business Review · 2020 · 39 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  We present a model of family firm performance that tests the notion that strategic decision comprehensiveness plays a pivotal role in family business decision quality and performance. With insights derived from upper echelons theory, our model further proposes that two key decision maker traits associated with an individual’s information-gathering process—risk-taking propensity and need for cognition—influence strategic decision comprehensiveness and have indirect effects on both study outcomes.…

  DOI

• Stress Events Theory: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Entrepreneurial Behavior

  Research in occupational stress and well being · 2020 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract Although scholarly inquiry into entrepreneurial stress has existed for nearly 40 years, little is known about how events drive stress responses in entrepreneurs, and how entrepreneur coping responses impact their well-being, relationships, and venture performance. In response to these deficiencies, the authors propose a stress events theory (SET) which they apply to an entrepreneurial context. The authors begin by providing a brief review of existing literature on entrepreneurial stress…

  DOI

• The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship

  Journal of Small Business Management · 2022-07-15 · 26 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  Entrepreneurial effort is a process-related phenomenon, where individuals or teams organize and launch a venture to capitalize on identified opportunities. Using role theory as a guide, this study develops a new, theory-based construct associated with hybrid entrepreneurship, which we term as work-to-venture conflict (WVC). WVC reflects how the hybrid entrepreneurship process can create conflict between wage employment and venture-launch roles over time. Using a repeated-measures data collection…

  PublisherDOI

• Metacognition and entrepreneurial action: The mediating role of a strategic mindset on promoting effort and innovative behavior in frugal entrepreneurs

  Journal of Business Venturing Insights · 2021-10-14 · 18 citations

  article
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Jeffrey M. Pollack

  North Carolina State University

  20 shared

• Timothy L. Michaelis

  Northern Illinois University

  16 shared

• Keith M. Hmieleski

  Texas Christian University

  10 shared

• Scott L. Boyar

  University of Alabama at Birmingham

  9 shared

• Allison W. Pearson

  Mississippi State University

  8 shared

• Bennett J. Tepper

  6 shared

• Lewis Sheats

  Saint Louis University

  6 shared

• Brian T. Gregory

  Northern Arizona University

  5 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Entrepreneurship

  North Carolina State University

  2000

• M.S., Entrepreneurship

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1995

• B.S., Business Administration

  University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  1993

Awards & honors

• Emerald Citation of Excellence for research on 'Familiness'…

Similar researchers at North Carolina State University

• Rob Handfieldh-71
• Bradley Kirkmanh-61
• Barry Goodwinh-58