David Lucas

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
David
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David Lucas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises and Research Fellow with the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society. His research focuses on entrepreneurial solutions to grand societal challenges, paying special attention to the nexus of institutions and entrepreneurial action. His work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, and numerous other outlets, and has garnered prominent awards in my field such as the Best Paper in Public Policy at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
Social Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial and Strategic Management, Intro to Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial action, Social entrepreneurship, Regulation and entrepreneurship, Homelessness, B Corporations

Publications

  • The Effect of Regime Change on Entrepreneurship: A Real Options Approach with Evidence from US Gubernatorial Elections

    2024 Journal of Business Venturing,39,4,106394,

  • The Nature and Origins of Social Venture Mission: An Exploratory Study of Political Ideology and Moral Foundations

    2023 Journal of Business Venturing, Park, D.

  • A Cloud's Silver Lining? The Impact of Policy Interventions on New and Maturing Technology Ventures' Online Recruitment

    2023 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Bellavitis, C., Park, D.

  • Taking mental models seriously: Institutions, entrepreneurship, and the mediating role of socio-cognitive traits

    2022 Small Business Economics, Boudreaux, C., Bennett, D., Nikolaev, B.

  • Made to be broken? Regulatory rules, governance, and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action

    2022 Journal of Business Venturing,37,6,106250, Fuller, C., Packard, M.

  • Remaking capitalism: The strength of weak legislation in mobilizing B Corporation certification

    2022 Academy of Management Journal,65,3,958-987, Grimes, M., Gehman, J.

  • Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality

    2021 Small Business Economics,59,3,1061-1079, Boudreaux, C., Elert, N., Henrekson, M.

  • National regulation, state-level policy, and local job creation in the United States: A multilevel perspective

    2020 Research Policy,49,4, Boudreaux, C.

  • The political economy of the collaborative innovation bloc

    2019 The Review of Austrian Economics,32,4,331--338,

  • Visions of entrepreneurship policy

    2018 Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy,7,4,336--356, Fuller, C., Piano, E., Coyne, C.

  • Evidence-based policy as public entrepreneurship

    2018 Public Management Review,20,11,1602--1622,

  • When warm and cold don’t mix: The implications of climate for the determinants of homelessness

    2018 Journal of Housing Economics,41,45--56, Corinth, K.

  • Bounties, grants, and market-making entrepreneurship

    2018 Independent Review, The,22,4,507--528, Fuller, C.

  • Rooking the state

    2018 International Review of Law and Economics,55,12--20, Fuller, C., Piano, E.

  • Federal homelessness policy: A robust political economy approach

    2017 Review of Austrian Economics, The,30,3,277--303,

  • Pricing Political Rallies

    2017 Economic Affairs,37,2,271--278, Fuller, C.

  • Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive, and destructive—Relative to what?

    2017 Journal of Business Venturing Insights,7,45--49, Fuller, C.

  • The Impact of Federal Homelessness Funding on Homelessness

    2017 Southern Economic Journal,84,2,548--576,

  • Economists Have No Defense: A Critical Review of National Defense in Economics Textbooks

    2016 Journal of Private Enterprise,31,4 ,65–85, Coyne, C.

  • Jan 01, 2025

    Received - Edward Pettinella Assistant Professorship in Business

    Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University
  • Mar 17, 2023

    Received - Lazaridis Award for Best Paper of the Year in the Journal of Business Venturing

    Journal of Business Venturing / Lazaridis Institute
  • Aug 01, 2022

    Received - Responsible Research in Business and Management Honor Roll

    Responsible Research in Business and Management
  • May 01, 2022

    Received - Dean's Research Citation

    Whitman School of Management
  • Sep 01, 2021

    Received - People's Choice Award

    B Academics Roundtable
  • Jan 06, 2021

    Nominated - Nominee, Seinfeld Scholars Award

    Syracuse University
  • Oct 01, 2019

    Received - Best Paper Award on the topic of Public Policy

    Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference
  • Jan 01, 2019

    Received - Top 20 Downloaded Article in 2017–2018

    Southern Economic Journal
  • May 01, 2018

    Received - William P. Snavely Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies in Economics

    George Mason University Department of Economics
  • May 01, 2018

    Received - Israel M. Kirzner Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Austrian Economics

    George Mason University Department of Economics
  • Jan 01, 2018

    Received - Young Scholar Award

    Association of Private Enterprise Education
  • Apr 01, 2017

    Received - Best Educational Note

    Association of Private Enterprise Education
  • Jan 01, 2017

    Received - Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Grant: Eli Ginzberg Award for most outstanding project in Health and Welfare, particularly in urban settings

    Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
  • Jan 01, 2017

    Received - Kathryn Brooks Award

    Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University
  • Nominated - Responsible Research in Management Award 2024

    Fellows Group of the Academy of Management
  • Nominated - AOM ENT Emerging Scholar Award

    Academy of Management
  • Homelessness crisis. Can governments move people off the streets and into housing?

    December 23, 2022 CQ Researcher
  • Micron facility will bring long-term economic opportunity to CNY, SU professors say

    October 01, 2022 The Daily Orange
  • Months after the CARES Act, communities still await federal homeless aid

    August 28, 2020 USA Today
  • Months later, communities still await federal aid for the homeless

    August 25, 2020 Cronkite News
  • Counting the Homeless. Searching for Solutions.

    January 23, 2020 Real Clear Policy
  • Putting an End to Homelessness

    February 13, 2019 DS News
  • HOROWITZ FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TO 19 SCHOLARS FOR SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH

    March 01, 2018 Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy