Specialty Areas
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic management
- International business
Education
- Flagler College (B.A.)
- University of Iowa (M.B.A.)
- Louisiana State University (Ph.D.)
Research Interests
- Organizational slack
- Liability of newness
- Organizational decline and turnaround
- Social entrepreneurship
- Strategic alliances
- New venture and small business
internationalization
- Top management and new venture teams
- Management history
Courses Taught
(Fall 2006-Fall 2009)
- BUSA 481W, Business Strategy
- BUSA 485W, Entrepreneurship
- BUSA 486, Social Entrepreneurship
- BUSA (MBA) 561, Strategic Management (Fall
2009)
- BUSA (MBA) 590, International Management
- BUSA (MBA) 590L, Economic Development of
Britain (in London)
- BUSA (MBA) 597, Entrepreneurship
Courses Taught
Previously
- MGT 624, Ph.D. Seminar, Contemporary Issues in
Entrepreneurship (University of Alabama) Syllabus
- MGT 591, Ph.D. Seminar, Entrepreneurship:
Theoretical Perspectives (University of Alabama) Syllabus
- GBA 490, Strategic Management (University of
Alabama)
- EMBA 6607, Global Organizational Issues
(Florida Gulf Coast University)
Recent Service
- Incoming Secretary for the Entrepreneurship
Division, Academy of Management (August 2010)
- Outstanding Reviewer, Social/Non-profit/Public
Policy Entrepreneurship Division, United States Association for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Conference, Anaheim, California, January 2009
- Division Chair for the Management History
Division, Academy of Management Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 2006
- Track Chair for the International
Management/Management Education/ Management History Track, Southern Management
Association, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2005
- Program Chair for the Management History
Division, Academy of Management
Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2004
- Editorial Review Board Member: Journal of
Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal
of Management History, and Journal of Small
Business Management.
- Ad-hoc Reviewer: Academy of Management Perspectives, Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice, European Management Journal, International Small
Business Journal, Journal of Business Research,
Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational
Research Methods, and Small Business Economics.
- As Chair of the Entrepreneurship,
Management, and Marketing Department, Brock School of Business, Samford University:
- Coordinated efforts in building an
Entrepreneurship program (beginning in 2006) that was recognized by USASBE as one of the
top three Emerging Entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. in 2009
- Developed the Entrepreneurship major in
2008
- Helped redesign the freshman-level BUSA
100, World of Business, course into a introductory course in Entrepreneurship, including
developing outlines and grading rubrics for students' preliminary business plans
- Wrote the proposal for a business plan
competition, which was eventually funded for $20,000 in 2008 and included two divisions,
Freshman (for BUSA 100 students) and Open. Also developed the competition
rules and wrote guidelines
for preparing a business plan
- Wrote the proposal, which was
eventually funded at $10,000, to support student micro-business formation in 2009.
- As Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator at
Samford University, developed the Entrepreneurship and Social/Not-for-Profit
Entrepreneurship concentrations, 2006-2007 Programs of Study
in Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship
- Also served as part of the faculty team
at the University of Alabama that redesigned the Entrepreneurship program, which Entrepreneur magazine ranked in the top 20 nationally
2006-2008. Contributions included publishing in Entrepreneurship journals,
developing and teaching two PhD seminars in Entrepreneurship, helping redesign the
undergraduate curriculum to include two Entrepreneurship concentrations, and serving as an
ex officio member of the Culverhouse
Entrepreneurship and Family Business Advisory Board
- Judge for the state-wide Alabama
Launchpad Governor's Business Plan Competition, the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce's Small
Business Awards, and the Birmingham Business Journal Best in Business Awards.
- ProStart Academy:
Developed and delivered personal and business finance lectures to inner-city high school
student-athletes attending a football camp at Miles College on Saturdays, May 2008 and
2009. Also serve on the organization's Board of Advisors
- Fourth grade Sunday School teacher, Our
Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church
Recent Awards and Research
Grants
Awarded a $25,000 grant from the National
Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago to study liability of newness
and strategic alliance processes (with Professor Barbara Bird).
Received the 2008-2009
Brock School of Business Advisory Board Research Fellowship for Outstanding Faculty Scholarship, Brock School
of Business
Selected Journal
Publications
Lohrke, F. T., Holloway, B. B., &
Woolley, T. W. In press. Conjoint analysis in entrepreneurship research: A review and
research agenda. Forthcoming in the "Special Issue on Research Methods in
Entrepreneurship" in Organizational Research Methods.
Marino, L.D., Lohrke, F. T., Hill, J.
S., Weaver, K. M., & Tambunan, T. 2008. Environmental shocks and SME alliance
formation intentions in an emerging economy: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis. Entrepreneurship
Theory & Practice, 32: 157-183.
Tang, J., Zhi, T., & Lohrke, F. T.
2008. Developing an entrepreneurial typology: The roles of entrepreneurial alertness and
attributional style. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 4:
273-294.
Smith, D. A., & Lohrke, F. T.
2008. Entrepreneurial network development: Trusting in the process. Journal of Business
Research, 61: 315-322.
Lohrke, F. T., Simpson, G. W., &
Hunt, D. M. 2007. Extending the bargaining power model: Eighteenth century lessons from
Panton, Leslie and Company in managing political risk. Journal of Management History
13: 153-171.
Lohrke, F. T., Franklin, G. M., &
Frownfelter-Lohrke, C. 2006. The Internet as an information conduit: A transaction cost
analysis model of U.S. SME Internet use. International Small Business Journal, 24:
159-178.
Lohrke, F. T., Kreiser, P. M., &
Weaver, K. M. 2006. The influence of current firm performance on future SME alliance
formation intentions: A six-country study. Journal of Business Research,
59: 19-27.
Lohrke, F. T., Bedeian, A. G., &
Palmer, T. B. 2004. The role of top management teams in formulating and implementing
turnaround strategies: A review and research agenda. International Journal of
Management Reviews, 5/6: 63-90.
Bruton, G.
B., Lohrke, F. T., & Lu, J. W. 2004. The
evolving definition of what comprises international strategic management research. Journal of International Management, 10:
413-429.
Daniel, F., Lohrke, F. T., Fornaciari,
C. J., & Turner, R. A. 2004. Organizational
slack and firm performance: A meta-analysis. Journal
of Business Research, 57: 565-574.
Other Selected Journal
Publications
Lohrke, F. T., & Bruton, G. D. 1997.
Contributions and gaps in international strategic management literature. Journal of
International Management, 3: 25-57. (pdf)
Ketchen, D. J., Jr., Combs, J. G., Russell, C. J., Shook, C.,
Dean, M. A., Runge, J., Lohrke, F. T., Naumann, S. E., Haptonstahl, D., Baker, R.,
Beckstein, B., Handler, C., Honig, H., & Lamoureux, S. 1997. Organizational
configurations and performance: A meta-analysis. Academy of Management Journal, 40: 223-240.
Lohrke, F. T. 1993. Motion study for the blinded: A review of
the Gilbreths' work with the visually handicapped. International Journal of Public
Administration, 16: 667-682.
Other Publications
Lohrke, F. T., & Frownfelter-Lohrke, C. In press. Book
Review: Handbook of research on electronic surveys
and measurements. Forthcoming in Organizational
Research Methods.
Lohrke, F. T. 2008. Book Review: Research
Methodology in Strategy and Management (volume 3). Organizational Research
Methods, 11: 860-864.
Marino, L. D., Lohrke, F. T., Zhi, T., Dickson,
P. H., & Weaver, K. M. 2005. Entrepreneurial acuity: The relationship between
entrepreneurial orientation and the convergence of archival and perceptual measures of
environmental uncertainty. In Zahra et al. (eds), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship
Research, pp. 1-15. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.
Selected Presentations
Lohrke, F. T., & Nagy, B. G. 2009. Only the good die young? A review of liability of
newness and related organizational mortality research. Paper to be presented at
the Academy of Management meeting
in August, Chicago, Illinois.
Gibson, J. W., Lohrke, F. T., Humphreys, J., Ford, R. C., &
Mowday, R. T. 2009. Getting involved in professional development.
Symposium to be presented at the Academy of Management meeting
in August, Chicago,Illinois.
Lohrke, F. T., Nagy, B. G., Bird, B., Fischer,
E., & Reuber, R. 2009. Are new ventures illegitimate, disreputable,
untrustworthy, or routineless? A liability of newness review and research agenda. Paper
presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Wellesley,
Massachusetts.
Lohrke, F. T., & Bird. B. 2009. Breaking up
is hard to do: Examining the role of partner changes on strategic alliance outcomes.Paper
presented at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Wellesley,
Massachusetts.
Landström, H., Lohrke, F. T., Kreiser, P,
Marino, L. D., Nagy, B., Moss, T., Short, J., Lumpkin, G. T., Foss, N. J., Klein, P. G.,
Ahlstrom, D., Wang, L. C., & Wadhwani, R. D. 2008. Historical foundations of
entrepreneurship research. Symposium presented at the Academy of Management meeting,
Anaheim, California.
Nagy, B. G., & Lohrke, F.T. 2008. Attaining
new venture legitimacy: A review and research agenda. Paper presented at the Babson
College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Govekar, P., Govekar, M., Van Fleet, D., Lohrke, F., Duncan, W., Kurowski,
L., Greenwood, R., & Petersen, P. 2006. A guide to historical method for the
Management Historian. Symposium presented at
the Academy of Management meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Tang, J., Zhi, T., & Lohrke, F. T. 2005.
Exploring an entrepreneurial typology: The roles of attributional style and
entrepreneurial alertness. Paper presented at the Academy of Management meeting, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Lohrke, F. T., Marino, L. D., & Tyler, B.
B. 2004. Alliance formation in response to three types of
environmental uncertainty: Longitudinal evidence from the collections industry.
Paper presented at the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurial Research Conference, Glasgow,
Scotland.
Lohrke, F. T. 2003. Remembering two Strategic
Management pioneers: Igor Ansoff and William Newman. Symposium
organized for the Management History and Business Policy and Strategy Divisions of the
Academy of Management, Seattle, Washington.
Lohrke, F. T., & Franklin, G. M. 2002. The
Internet as an information conduit: A transaction cost analysis of small business Internet
use. Paper presented at the United States Association for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship Conference, Reno, Nevada. Selected
as Best Conference Paper: Technological Applications for Entrepreneurship.
Selected Recent News Media
Contributions
2009
June 19: Interviewed by Cindy Riley of the Birmingham
Business Journal regarding private firm and small business challenges during a
recession http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2009/06/22/focus2.html
2008
October 1: Appeared on Talk of Alabama
on ABC 33/40 to discuss starting a business during an economic downturn http://cfc.abc3340.com/abc3340/toa/videoondemand.cfm?id=24039&category=toa.
August 22: Interviewed by Jena Hippensteel of
the Birmingham Business Journal about Entrepreneurship education http://www.samford.edu/business/resources/news/20080822.php.
June 25: Interviewed by Roy Williams of the Birmingham
News about the Brock School of Business' Entrepreneurship program http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/business/1216987305176780.xml&coll=2
June 22: Interviewed by Chandra Temple Guster
of the Birmingham News about family business http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1214122525118370.xml&coll=2
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