Dr. Murphy is assistant professor and a member of DePaul University's entrepreneurship faculty. His research examines the nature of entrepreneurial discovery and his work has been published in leading academic journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and reported in major media outlets such as USA Today and the Financial Times. The current PDW Chair of the Management History Division in the Academy of Management, he is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Management History. He manages university outreach projects in Chicago and also consults to managers and entrepreneurs in the USA and the Middle and Far East. He is the recipient of multiple awards for teaching excellence and a speaker of Mandarin Chinese. Prior to academia, he was Organizational Development Specialist at the North American headquarters of French multinational Schneider Electric, a mechanical engineer, and a musician.
Articles and Cases (Peer-reviewed)
A 2x2 conceptual foundation for entrepreneurial discovery theory., Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2011)
Theories about entrepreneurial discovery are important to entrepreneurship. However, the dominant conceptual foundation underlying such...
Prior knowledge and new product and service introductions by entrepreneurial firms: the mediating role of technological innovation. (with Jintong Tang), Journal of Small Business Management (2011)
Most research on new product and service development by entrepreneurial firms takes an individual-level, pre-launch...
Using historic mutinies to understand defiance in modern organizations. (with Ray W. Coye and Patricia Spencer), Journal of Management History (2010)
Purpose: Guided by voice and leadership theory, we articulate the underpinnings of upward defiance (competence...
A model of social entrepreneurial discovery. (with Susan M. Coombes), Journal of Business Ethics (2009)
Social entrepreneurship activity continues to surge tremendously in market and economic systems around the world....
Entrepreneurial alertness, technological innovation, and new product development [article published in Chinese]. (with Ren Hong Zhu and Jin Tong Tang), Contemporary Finance and Economics (2009)
Alertness is a key precondition for opportunity recognition. However, models of alertness are still immature...
Book Chapters
A model of the discovery, assembly, and viability of entrepreneurial opportunities., Entrepreneurship: values and responsibility. (2009)
The opportunity-based approach to entrepreneurial discovery research (with M. R. Marvel), Current Topics in Management (2007)
Conference Proceedings
Disease epidemics and entrepreneurial tipping points: Models of venture viability from customer and financier perspectives. (with T. Long), Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. (2007)
Whereas discovery is fundamental to entrepreneurship, there is low understanding of how and why some...
Book Reviews
Review of working for a family business: A non-family employee's guide to success., Family Business Review (2005)
Dissertation
A logic for entrepreneurial discovery., UMI/ProQuest Learning and Information Company. (2004)
This dissertation employs an epistemological approach to integrate several branches of social science (i.e., economics,...