Mark Parry, Ewing M. Kauffman/Missouri Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and professor of marketing has recently released a paper  that assesses Missouri’s entrepreneurial environment.

The report, “Missouri’s Need for Risk Capital: An Assessment and Recommendations,” was requested by the Missouri Capital Formation Needs Analysis 2007 Steering Committee with funding provided by the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, Advantage Capital, the Kansas City Area Development Council, and the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association. Read more...

Current Research

Song, Michael
Director, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Charles N. Kimball, MRI/Missouri Endowed Chair in Management of Technology and Innovation; and Professor of Marketing

• Read, Stuart , Nicholas Dew, Saras D. Sarasvathy, Michael Song, and Robert Wiltbank (2007), “Marketing Under Uncertainty: A Knock on the Door,” Under second review at Journal of Marketing

• Calantone, Roger, Michael Song, C. Anthony Di Benedetto (2007), “An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Industry Environment on Early Market Entry Decisions in the U.S. and Japan,” Under third review at Industrial Marketing Management.

• Song, Michael and Morgan Swink (2006), “Marketing-Manufacturing Integration Across Stages of New Product Development: Effects on the Market Success of High and Low Innovativeness Products,” under review at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

• Stuart Read and Michael Song, “Non-Predictive Strategy and New Venture Performance: A Meta-Analysis” under first review for publication at Journal of Business Venturing..12

• Song, Michael, Subin Im, and Hans van der Bij (2006), “Does Strategic Planning Enhance or Inhibit New Product Idea Generation? A Contingency Model from the Resource-based and Institutional Theoretical Perspectives,” under first review for publication at Journal of Academy of Marketing Science.

• Kawakami, Tomoko and Michael Song (2006), “Customer Information and New Product Performance in Japanese Firms: The Moderating Effect of Product Innovativeness,” under second review for publication at Journal of Product Innovation Management. (JPIM MS #:04-009)

• Song, Michael (2006), “The Moderating Role of Information Technologies on Enhancing R&D-Marketing Integration,” under first revision for publication at Journal of Product Innovation Management.

• Song, Michael, C. Anthony Di Benedetto (2006), and Yushan Zhao, “The Antecedents and Profit Consequences of Manufacturer-Distributor Cooperation: An Empirical Test in the U.S. and Japan,” under third review for publication at Journal of Academy of Marketing Science.

• Stuart Read, Michael Song, and Warren Boeker (2005), "Does Expertise Moderate the Relationship Between Venture Capitalist Involvement and Performance? Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence," under first review for publication at Strategic Management Journal.

• Song, Michael and Morgan Swink (2005), "Marketing-Manufacturing Integration Across Stages of New Product Development: Effects on the Success of High and Low Innovativeness Products," under review at Strategic Management Journal (SMJ05-5917).

• Song, Michael, Hans Berends, Hans van der Bij, Mathieu Weggeman (December, 2003), "The Effect of IT and Co-location of R&D People on Knowledge Dissemination," under review for possible publication at Information Systems Research (log#2003-157).

• Song, Michael, Hans van der Bij, Mathieu Weggeman (December 2003), " From IT to Performance: Is Knowledge Creation a Missing Link?" under first review for publication at Information Systems Department of the Management Science (MS# 00796-2003).

• Song, Michael, Hans Berends, Hans van der Bij, Mathieu Weggeman (December, 2003), " The Effect of Managerial Controllable Factors on Knowledge Creation," under review for possible publication at Journal of Marketing.

• Wayne S. DeSarbo, C. Anthony Di Benedetto, Michael Song, and Kamel Jedidi (2003), “Modeling Strategic Types via Relationships between Firm Capabilities and Profitabilities: An Empirical Approach,” under review for publication at Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

• Song, Michael, R. Jeffery Thieme, and Erica Okada (December, 2003), “When Does Market Intelligence Improve Performance in Radical Innovation?" under review for publication at Journal of Marketing.13

• Song, Michael, Johannes I.M. Halman and Jimme A. Keizer (2002), “Development of a Risk Reference Framework for Product innovation Projects,” under first revision for publication at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

• Johannes I.M. Halman, Jimme A. Keizer, and Michael Song (2001), “Risk Factors in Product Innovation Projects,” under first revision for publication at Journal of Product Innovation Management.