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 2008)
- BUSA 481W, Business Strategy
- BUSA 485W, Entrepreneurship
- BUSA 486, Social Entrepreneurship
- BUSA (MBA) 590L, Economic Development of
Britain (in London)
- BUSA (MBA) 590, Entrepreneurship
- BUSA (MBA) 590, International Management
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
- 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
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, developed the
Entrepreneurship major in 2008.
- 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.
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 Outstanding Faculty
Scholarship Award, Brock School of Business
Selected
Recent Journal Publications
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.
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.
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)
Other Publications
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 2005, pp. 1-15. Wellesley, MA: Babson College.
Selected Presentations
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
conference, 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.
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., & 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
Economics Conference, Reno, Nevada. Selected as
Best Conference Paper: Technological Applications for Entrepreneurship.
Selected Recent News Media
Contributions
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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