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Office
300 Beatty Center
Address
5 Liberty Street
Suite 300
Charleston, SC 29401
Tel: (843) 953-2276
Fax: (843) 953-5697
shaverk@cofc.edu
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Kelly G. Shaver
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Professor of Entrepreneurship
Ph.D. Duke University
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Kelly G. Shaver is Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the College of Charleston. His prior appointments include the National Science Foundation, the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute in Stockholm, and the College of William & Mary. Prof. Shaver is an author or editor of nine books and the author or coauthor of over 50 articles and 75 presentations at scientific meetings. He has received external funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Center for Innovative Technology, and the Kauffman Foundation. Professor Shaver’s 2000 paper at the Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference won the overall Best Paper Award; his Psychology of Entrepreneurship course won the 2000 McGraw-Hill/Irwin Award for Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, and has served a 5-year term as Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Dr. Shaver is a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society, past President of the Richmond Venture Capital Club, and is a past Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management. In 2007 Dr. Shaver received an Extraordinary Service Award from the Entrepreneurship Division. In his two years at the College of Charleston, Professor Shaver has been the driving force behind the new Entrepreneurship Concentration.
Education: B. S., University of Washington; M.S., University of Washington; Ph. D., Duke University.
Research Interest: His current research deals with the processes of social cognition that influence entrepreneurial persistence. This work grows out of my long-standing interest in attribution processes -- the cognitive processes people use to explain events and behavior. Most of the present work involves the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), an extensive longitudinal data set described in detail in Gartner, Shaver, Carter, & Reynolds (2004) The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation.
Selected Scholarship
Shaver, K. G. (2005). Reflections on a new academic path: Entrepreneurship in the Arts and Sciences. Peer Review, 7 (3), 21-23.
Carter, N.C., Gartner, W. B., Shaver, K. G., & Gatewood, E. J. (2003). The career reasons of nascent entrepreneurs. Journal of Business Venturing, 18, 13-39.
Gatewood, E. J., Shaver, K. G., Powers, J. B., & Gartner, W. B. (2002). Entrepreneurial expectancy, task effort, and performance. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 27 (2), 187-206.
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