Carsrud, Alan Lee, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor

Areas of Interest: The relationship of micro- and macro-level variables to entrepreneurial strategies and firm success.  The relationship of micro- and macro-level factors of family business with emphasis on cross-cultural aspects.  The international entrepreneurship and regional economic development. The analyses of strategy and complex organizational behaviors and their relationship to personality factors.  Transfer of technology and university based research to entrepreneurial firms.

Email:  alan.carsrud@fiu.edu

Phone: : 305-348-1022

 
 

Dr. Carsrud is currently a Clinical Professor of Management

in the Chapman Graduate School of Business and 

Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems 

Engineering, College of Engineering at Florida International 

University. He is also the executive Director of the Global 

Entrepreneurship Center and Innovation and its institutes.

Before coming to FIU, Dr. Carsrud served as the Senior 

Lecturer in Technology Entrepreneurship in Electrical 

Engineering teaching and directing the graduate

Entrepreneurship for Engineers Program in Henry 

Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at 

UCLA.   

Recent Publications:

  1. Krueger, N. F. Jr., Reilly, M. D, & Carsrud, A. L., Competing Models Of Entrepreneurial Intentions

  2. Journal of Business Venturing. 2000, 15, 411-432.

  3. Carsrud, A.L. , Svenson, E., & Gilbert, L., Creating an international high technology incubator: The case of the UCLA Venture Development Program. Journal of Enterprising Culture, 2000, 8, 2, 185-200.  Also appears in the Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research, 1999.

  4. Carsrud, A. , Kaye, K, Neill, E., Tucker, S., & Brockhaus, R. “Family Business Research; Who, What, & Why” Proceedings of the 1997 Family Firm Institute Conference,  Family Firm Institute: Boston, pp31-41.

  5. Carsrud, A., Perez, S.E., & Sachs, R.,  Exploring A Classification Scheme For Closely-Held Businesses: Getting To Workable Definitions Of Family Firms,  Proceedings of the World Conference of the Family Business Network, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1996.

Awards:

  1. Co-Principal Investigator, European Union Social Funds and Finnish Academy for the comparative study of biotechnology startups [EURO500,000]. 2001-2002.

  2.  Grantee, American Participant Program, United States Information Agency (on entrepreneurship and family business in Uruguay [$3,000]). 1995.

  3.  Finalist, Best Research Paper, United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship,  Boulder, CO. 1995.

  4.  Finalist, Best Research Paper, Western Academy of Management, Spokane, WA. 1992.

  5.  Co-Principal Investigator, Research Grant from 3i Capital Corporation (on the management of succession [$25,000]). 1991.   

Links:  http://www.entrepreneurship.fiu.edu/bio_carsud.htm 

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