Jeffrey Pollack

Bio

Jeff Pollack is a professor in the NC State Poole College of Management. He received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University, his master’s in organizational communication at NC State University, and his doctorate in management at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Over the past 15 years, Jeff has accumulated a variety of entrepreneurial experiences from working in small family-owned firms, to buying and selling businesses, to investing in businesses. These experiences shape his perspective on research in the domain of entrepreneurship.

Jeff’s research has been published in journals including Academy of Management Journal, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Family Business Review, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, and Journal of Leadership Studies.

Jeff has taught courses, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, on entrepreneurship, business opportunity analysis and planning, new venture creation, social entrepreneurship, organizational design, industrial and organizational psychology, organizational behavior, and public speaking.

Meet Professor Jeffrey Pollack

Area(s) of Expertise

Entrepreneurship, Mindsets, Business Pitches, Crowdfunding, Resilience, Goal Setting

Publications

• A listening model of venture growth: entrepreneurs' listening abilities and ventures' listening capabilities , JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING (2024)
• Bridging the gap: The roles of entrepreneurs' egotism and structural hole occupancy in venture performance , JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (2024)
• When Does Entrepreneurs' Impression Management Enhance Their Networking Performance? The Cross-Level Moderating Role of Collective Altruism , GROUP & ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT (2024)
• Advancing (Neuro)Entrepreneurship Cognition Research Through Resting-State fMRI: A Methodological Brief , ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE (2023)
• Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue , JOURNAL OF BUSINESS VENTURING (2023)
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work? , Psychological Bulletin (2022)
• A systematic review of growth mindset intervention implementation strategies , Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2022)
• Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility , Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (2022)
• The relationship of self-efficacy with entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytic replication and extension , Journal of Business Venturing Insights (2022)
• The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship , Journal of Small Business Management (2022)