Research Interests
My research adopts a behavioral approach to studying institutions and entrepreneurship. My particular focus is on organizational learning and identity and entrepreneurial finance.
Education
- Ph D: Strategy/Organization Theory, (2010), University of Wisconsin- Madison
Dissertation/Thesis Title: Commercializing Science: The Impact of Organizational Identity on Learning from Experience
- MBA: Finance, (1990), University of Pennsylvania- The Wharton School
- BA: Economics, (1986), University of California, Berkeley
Biography
Michael P Ciuchta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received his PhD in Organization Theory/Strategic Management from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Selected Awards and Honors
- Best Article Award: Business Horizons 2015 (2016), Scholarship/Research - Business Horizons/Elsevier
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007), Scholarship/Research - Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Selected Publications
- Stevenson, R., Ciuchta, M., Letwin, C., Dinger, J., Vancouver, J. () "Out of Control or Right on the Money? Funder Self-Efficacy and Crowd Bias in Equity Crowdfunding.," Journal of Business Venturing (forthcoming):
- Eckhardt, J., Ciuchta, M., Carpenter, M.A. () "Open Innovation, Information, and Entrepreneurship within Platform Ecosystems," Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming):
- Ciuchta, M., Miner, A.S., Kim, J., O'Toole, J. (2017) "Founding logics, technology validation, and the path to commercialization," International Small Business Journal (in press):
- Ciuchta, M., Letwin, C., Stevenson, R., McMahon, S., Huvag, M. (2017) "Betting on the coachable entrepreneur: signaling and social exchange in entrepreneurial pitches," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (in press):
- Ciuchta, M., Gong, Y., Miner, A., Letwin, C., Sadler, A. (2016) "Imprinting and the progeny of university spin-offs.," Journal of Technology Transfer 41:5 pp. 1113-1134
- Ciuchta, M., O'Toole, J. (2016) "Looks and linguistics: Impression formation in online exchange marketplaces. ," The Journal of Social Psychology 156:6 pp. 648-663
- Ciuchta, M., Letwin, C., Stevenson, R.M., McMahon, S.R. (2016) "Regulatory Focus and Information Cues in a Crowdfunding Context.," Applied Psychology: An International Review 65:3 pp. 490 - 514
- Ciuchta, M., O’Toole, J. (2016) "Buy Local? Organizational Identity in the Localism Movement," Business & Society pp. 1-17
- Ford, R.C., Richard, B., Ciuchta, M. (2015) "Crowdsourcing: A new way of employing non-employees?," Business Horizons 58: pp. 377-388
- Letwin, C., Ford, C., Ciuchta, M. (2013) "Thinking it or feeling it? The Dual Routes of Entrepreneurial Passion," Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research
- Miner, A., Gong, Y., Ciuchta, M., Sadler, A., Surdyk, J. (2012) "Promoting university startups: international patterns, vicarious learning and policy implications," Journal of Technology Transfer 37:2 pp. 213
- Miner, A.S., Ciuchta, M., Gong, Y. (2008) "Organizational Routines and Organizational Learning," Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass.: Elgar pp. 152-186
- Eckhardt, J.T., Ciuchta, M. (2008) "Selected variation: the population-level implications of multistage selection in entrepreneurship," Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2:3 pp. 209
- Eckhardt, J.T., Ciuchta, M. (2007) "From Free to Fee: An Examination of Factors Influencing the Switch from Public Innovator to Commercial Entrepreneur," FRONTIERS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH pp. 238-250
Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Experimental Games in Entrepreneurial Finance (), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ciuchta, M. (Co-Principal), Kingsley, D. (Co-Principal)