Scholarship

Carla Pavone focuses on strategic decision-making and organizational learning in entrepreneurial settings, including venture capitalists, social enterprise lenders, high growth firms, and high-tech companies.

Selected Publications

Forbes, D. and Pavone, C., 2006. “Razorfish.” Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 30(4): 561-578. Reprinted in Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases by M.A.

Carpenter and W.G. Sanders, 2007, Prentice Hall.

Banerjee, S., Bowie, N., and Pavone, C., 2006.  “An ethical analysis of the trust relationship.”  Handbook of Trust Research, edited by R. Bachmann and A. Zaheer, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Entrepreneurial Experience

Carla Pavone’s first career was in start-ups in magazine and book publishing, as well as data conversion services.  She then led internal start-ups and turnarounds for an American Express financial services subsidiary, including a business that grew to over $1 billion in assets in about one year.  She also has served as a pro bono consultant and board member of social ventures focusing on economic development, social services, and education.

Conference Presentations

Pavone, C., “The effects of risk dimensions on venture capitalists’ follow-on

investment and exit decisions.” 2008 Academy of Management annual conference.

Pavone, C. and Villanueva, J., “Losing sight of the mission? Social enterprise decision

trade-offs.” 2007 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference

Pavone, C. and Sapienza, H., “Deadline pressure, controllability, relevance and

irreversibility: The effects of time and risk perception on venture capital portfolio

decisions.” 2007 University of Maryland Entrepreneurship Research Conference

Pavone, C., “Opportunity re-evaluation: How shifting risk perceptions affect venture

capitalist post-investment decisions.” 2006 Strategic Management Society

Pavone, C., “After due diligence: How venture capitalists’ evolving risk perceptions

influence their exit decisions.” 2006 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research

Conference

Villanueva, J. and Pavone, C., “The effect of entrepreneurial motives on survival and

growth: A study of women microentrepreneurs.” 2006 Babson College

Entrepreneurship Research Conference

Pavone, C. and Banerjee, S. “No exit: Explaining the persistence of living dead

firms.” 2005 Academy of Management annual conference

Pavone, C., Autio, E., Hameri, A.-P., and Sapienza, H. “Contextual, transactional and

relational influences on organizational learning.” 2004 Academy of Management

annual conference

Research In Progress

Pavone, C., Autio, E., Hameri, A.-P., and Sapienza, H., “Improvisational and social

capital influences on organizational learning.” Resubmit to Organization Science.

Pavone, C. and Banerjee, S. “No exit:  Explaining the persistence of living dead firms.”

Revision of AOM conference presentation to be submitted to Journal of Business

Venturing.

Pavone, C. “Defining and predicting ‘success’ of high-risk, low-potential

entrepreneurial firms.”

Pavone, C. “From expansion to success or distress?  The interaction of exogenous

and endogenous influences on growth-firm performance.”

Song, M., Pavone, C. and Song, L., “Venture risk and VC investment:  The moderating

role of lead founder leadership style”. 

Pavone, C. and Villanueva, J. “The interactive effects of microlender priorities and

entrepreneur motivations on start-up outcomes.”

Education

Doctoral candidate in strategy/entrepreneurship.  Carlson School of Management,

University of Minnesota.  Degree expected Winter 2008/2009

M.B.A., Harvard Business School, Harvard University,1982

B.A. Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 1977

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Reviewer Award, Business Policy & Strategy Division, Academy of Management , 2007

Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota,  2006-2007

Summer Research Fellowship, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2006

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Carlson School of Management, 2005

Academic Positions Held

Assistant Professor, Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City,  2008- present

Pro Bono Consulting

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