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Franz T. Lohrke

Brock Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship

Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Marketing

Brock School of Business

Samford University

800 Lakeshore Drive

Birmingham, AL 35229
Office: 301 Dwight M. Beeson Hall
Tele: 205.726.2373
Fax: 205.726.2464
ftlohrke@samford.edu
 
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