Denis Gregoire

My research centers on the cognitive processes supporting entrepreneurship and strategy.  In practice, I articulate this interest along three main areas of study:

1) The identification of entrepreneurial, strategic and international opportunities;
2) The evaluation of new venture funding presentations by bankers, angels and venture capitalists; and
3) Entrepreneurs’ decisions to expand their firm’s activities in foreign markets (international entrepreneurship).

In doing this research, I have developed an interest for using a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods.  Along the way, I have developed some expertise in construct validation, research designs and analytical techniques that I leverage across all three areas of investigation, in my coaching of doctoral students, and in my services as a journal reviewer / editorial board member.

Research Topics

• Entrepreneurship
• Cognition
• Opportunity identification
• New venture presentations
• Early internationalization

Summer 2013: MBC 647 Global Entrepreneurial Management (DCP)

Fall 2013: MBC 610 Opportunity Identification and Ideation

Spring 2014: MBC 647 Global Entrepreneurial Management

Selected Publications

• "Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation.", Journal of Business Venturing, 28 (3): 373–396, 2013, (Cardon, M.S, Grégoire, D.A., Stevens, C. & Patel, P. )
• "Technology-market combinations and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities: An investigation of the opportunity-individual nexus", Academy of Management Journal, 55(4): 753-785, 2012, (Grégoire, D.A. & Shepherd, D.A.)
• "The cognitive perspective in entrepreneurship: An agenda for future research", Journal of Management Studies, 48(6): 1443-1477, 2011, (Grégoire, D.A., Corbett, A.C. & McMullen, J.S.)
• "Cognitive processes of opportunity recognition: The role of structural alignment", Organization Science, 21(2): 413-431, 2010, (Grégoire, D.A., Barr P.S. & Shepherd, D.A.)
• "Measuring opportunity-recognition beliefs: Illustrating and validating an experimental approach", Organizational Research Methods, 13(1): 114-145, 2010, (Grégoire, D.A., Shepherd, D.A. & Lambert L.S.)
• "Is there conceptual convergence in entrepreneurship research? A co-citation analysis of FER 1981-2004", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 30(3): 333-373, 2006, (Grégoire, D.A., Noël, M.X., Déry, R. & Béchard, J.-P.)
• "Entrepreneurship education research revisited: the case of higher education", Academy of Management Learning and Education, 4(1): 22-43, 2005, (Béchard, J.-P. & Grégoire, D.)

Honors

• 2011 IDEA Thought Leader - Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship Division. Recognizes one of the three best published entrepreneurship studies for 2010
• 2006 Heizer Award - Academy of Management's Entrepreneurship Division. Recognizes Best Dissertation in New Enterprise Development

• Academy of Management Journal - Editorial Board
• Journal of Business Venturing - Review Board
• Journal of Management Studies - Editorial Board
• Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship Division - Research Committee

• Three Whitman faculty join Academy of Management Journal editorial board 6.12.13
  Three faculty members from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University have accepted invitations to serve on the editorial review board for the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). The peer-reviewed AMJ is considered one of the top academic journals in business and man Read more>>
• Whitman welcomes five new faculty and staff members 9.17.12
  The Whitman School is pleased to announce the addition of three new faculty members and two new staff: Alejandro Amezcua, Denis Gregoire, Major Coleman, Theresa Jenkins and Jacqueline Popkess. Read more>>