Pat Dickson

Area Chair; Dale & Karen Sisel Professor

OFFICE: Farrell 390

Biography

Dr. Pat H. Dickson is a Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of the undergraduate program in the School of Business at Wake Forest University. He has also served as a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship on the faculties of Georgia Tech and the University of Louisville. Prior to earning his PhD in 1997 from the University of Alabama, Pat spent fifteen years as an entrepreneur, co-founding companies in the automotive parts and service industry and as a corporate executive serving as Director of Franchising for a regional retail and manufacturing company in the same industry.

Pat is currently a Fellow and a past-president of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Dickson has two areas of unique expertise: New venture creation - including opportunity assessment, resource acquisition, technology commercialization and the strategic management of new ventures. He also has a specific expertise regarding strategic alliances - including formation and structure and the use of alliances for resource acquisition, technology transfer and internationalization. His research has appeared in top journals in the management and entrepreneurship fields and has been awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Research by the Academy of Management and the National Federation of Independent Business.

Honors

2015 - Highly Commended Paper Award 2014, Journal of Logistics Management
2012 - Spirit Award, Wake Forest Schools of Business
2011 - Best Paper Award, Advances in Business-Related Scientific Rsearch Conference 2011
2011 - T.B. Rose Fellowship in Business Award, Wake Forest Schools of Business
2009 - 2009 Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
2008 - Fellow, Justin G. Longenecker Fellow, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE)

Expertise

Dr. Dickson has two areas of unique expertise: New venture creation?including opportunity assessment, resource acquisition, technology commercialization and the strategic management of new ventures; Strategic alliances?including formation and structure and the use of alliances for resource acquisition, technology transfer and internationalization.

In The Media

December 15, 2012 - Can You Handle a Sudden Sales Surge? , Wall Street Journal| more information
October 25, 2012 - For Small Businesses, Presidential Candidates' Pitches Come Up Short , Wall Street Journal| more information
October 4, 2012 - What to Know Before Borrowing from Amazon , Wall Street Journal| more information
June 4, 2012 - How to Collaborate on a New Product , Wall Street Journal | more information

Research Interests

Strategic Alliance Formation
Structure and Performance
Internationalization of Entrepreneurial Firms
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Strategy

Teaching Interests

Strategic Management
Entrepreneurship
Technology Innovation
International Entrepreneurship

Education

Ph D, University of Alabama (Management) - 1997
MS, Mississippi College (Communications) - 1978
BS, Mississippi College (Communications) - 1975

Publications

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

The link between SMEs Alliance portfolio configuration and top management's entrepreneurial and alliance orientations

Tokman, M. , Mousa, F. T. , & Dickson, P. (2020)

Palgrave MacMillan

Intending to implement entrepreneurship research: Thirty years after Bird (1988)

West, P. , & Dickson, P. (2018)

Palgrave MacMillan

Intending to implement entrepreneurship research: Thirty years after Bird (1988)

West, P. , & Dickson, P. (2018)

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Entrepreneurial orientation: The dimensions' unique bilaterally shared, and commonly shared contributions to explaining firm performance

Lomberg, C. , Diemo, U. , Stockmann, C. , Marino, L. , & Dickson, P.

Journal of Applied Business Economics

The impact of the institutional environment on SME internationalization: An assessment of the environmental assumptions of emerging integrated models of internationalization

Dickson, P. , Weaver, K. M. , & Vozikis, G. S. (2013)

International Journal of Logistic Management

SME supply chain portfolios: Firm satisfaction and organizational resources

Tokman, M. , Richey, R. G. , Morgan, T. R. , Marino, L. , & Dickson, P. (2013)

Journal of Organizational Psychology

The Role of Empathy in the Family Firm: A Theoretical Framework

Vozikis, G. S. , Weaver, K. M. , Dickson, P. , & Gibson, B. (2012)

Information Age Publishing

Alliance formation and structure: The interplay between entrepreneurial orientation and institutional environment

Dickson, P. , & Weaver, K. M. (2012)

Journal of Small Business Management

Institutional readiness and small to medium-sized enterprise alliance formation

Dickson, P. , & Weaver, K. M. (2011)

Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Promoting entrepreneurship across the university: The experiences of three diverse academic institutions

Weaver, K. , Marchese, A. , Vozikis, G. , & Dickson, P. (2011)

Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

The influence of national culture on the formation of technology alliances by entrepreneurial firms

Steensma, H. K. , Marino, L. , Weaver, K. M. , & Dickson, P. (2010)

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Cultural Influences on entrepreneurial orientation: The impact of national culture on risk-taking and proactiveness

Kreiser, P. M. , Marino, L. D. , Dickson, P. , & Weaver, K. M. (2010)

British Journal of Management

The value of organizational ambivalence in an uncertain world

Tang, Z. , Dickson, P. , Marino, L. , Tang, J. , & Powell, B. C. (2010)

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

A hierarchical perspective of the dimension of entrepreneurial orientation

Tang, Z. , Marino, L. , Dickson, P. , & Weaver, K. (2009)

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

The role of the institutional enviornment in determining firm orientation towards entrepreneurial behavior

Dickson, P. , & Weaver, K. M. (2008)

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Entrepreneurial selection and success: Does education matter?

Dickson, P. , Solomon, G. , & Weaver, K. M. (2008)

International Journal of Business and Management

The impact of organizational goal setting on the industrial munificence-goal attainment relationship for SMEs

Tang, Z. , Powell, B. , Marino, L. , Tang, J. , & Dickson, P. (2008)

Praeger

Going Global

Dickson, P. (2007)

Small Business Administration

Entrepreneurship and education: What is known and not known about the links between education and entrepreneurial activity

Weaver, K. M. , Dickson, P. , & Solomon, G. (2006)

Journal of Business Venturing

Opportunism in the R&D alliances of SMEs: The roles of the institutional environment and SME size

Dickson, P. , Weaver, K. M. , & Hoy, F. (2006)