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McSweeney JJ, McSweeney KT, Allison TH, Webb JW. In Press. Is Prior Failure a Burden for Entrepreneurs’ Follow-Up Crowdfunding Success?: An Expectancy Violations Theory PerspectiveEntrepreneurship Theory & PracticeDOI Pending        

Escudero SB, Anglin AH, Allison TH, Wolfe MT. 2025. Crowdfunding: A theory-centered review and roadmap of the multidisciplinary literature. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251328267         

Maurer JD, Creek SA, Allison TH, Bendickson JS, Sahaym A. 2025. First Impressions of Digital Pitches, Innovation, and Venture Funding Performance: An Evolutionary Psychology Approach. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. 10(2): 100672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2025.100672    

Allison TH, Anglin AH. 2025. The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding. Journal of Small Business Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2024.2439030        

McKenny AF, Fisher GF, Short JC, Ketchen DJ, Allison TH. 2025. Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 49(3): 782 816. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587241288124        

Oo P, Allison TH. 2024. Pitching with your heart (on your sleeve): Getting to the heart of how display authenticity matters in crowdfundingJournal of Small Business Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2022.2122482      

Maurer JD, Creek SA, Allison TH, Bendickson JS, Sahaym A. 2024. Getting to know someone in ten seconds: Social role theory and perceived personality in entrepreneurial pitch videos. Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114535       

Allison TH, Anglin AH, Davis BC, Oo PP, Seyb SK, Short JC, Wolfe MT. 2024. Standing out in a crowd of victim entrepreneurs: How entrepreneurs language-based cues of personality traits affect public supportJournal of Small Business Managementhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2022.2056606      

Maurer JD, Creek SA, Allison TH, Bendickson JS, Sahaym A. 2023. Affiliation Rhetoric and Digital Orientation in Crowdfunding AppealsTechnological Forecasting & Social Changehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122441       

Allison TH, Warnick BJ, Davis BC, Cardon MS. 2022. Can You Hear Me Now? Engendering Passion and Preparedness Perceptions with Vocal Expressions in Crowdfunding PitchesJournal of Business Venturinghttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106193      

Allison TH, Grimes M, McKenny AF, Short JC. 2021. Occupy Wall Street ten years on: How its disruptive institutional entrepreneurship spread and why it fizzledJournal of Business Venturing Insights. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00285       

Anglin AH, Courtney C, Allison TH. 2022. Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture CrowdfundingEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211024545       

Davis BC, Warnick BJ, Anglin AH, Allison TH. 2021. Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded MicrolendingEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/10422587211029770       

Warnick BJ, Davis BC, Allison TH, Anglin AH. 2021. Express Yourself: Facial Expression of Happiness, Anger, Fear, and Sadness in Funding PitchesJournal of Business Venturinghttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2021.106109       

Pollack JM, Maula M, Allison TH, Renko M, G nther CC. 2021. Making a Contribution to Entrepreneurship Research by Studying Crowd-Funded Entrepreneurial OpportunitiesEntrepreneurship Theory and Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719888640       

Srivastava S, Sahaym A, Allison TH. 2021. Alert and Awake: Role of alertness and attention on rate of new product introductions.  Journal of Business Venturing., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106023      

Anglin AH, Short JC, Ketchen DJ, Allison TH, McKenny AF. 2020. Third-Party Signals in Crowdfunded Microfinance: The Role of Microfinance InstitutionsEntrepreneurship Theory and Practicehttps://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719839709      

Oo P, Allison TH, Sahaym A, Juasrikul S. 2019. User entrepreneurs multiple identities and crowdfunding performance: Effects through product innovativeness, perceived passion, and need similarityJournal of Business Venturinghttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.08.005      

Baid C, Allison TH. 2019. How crowdfunding deals get done: signaling, social capital, and communication perspectives. In A Parhankangas, C Mason, & H Landstr m (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Crowdfunding. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. 

Anglin AH, Short JC, Drover W, Stevenson RM, McKenny AF, Allison TH. 2018. The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performanceJournal of Business Venturing, 33(4): 470-492. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2018.03.003      

Srivastava S, Oo P, Sahaym A, Allison TH. 2018. Kickstart OR Jumpstart? Understanding Women Entrepreneurs Crowdfunding Performance. In PG Greene & CG Brush (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Women and Entrepreneurship: Identity through aspirations, behaviors, and confidence: pp. 207-220. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781785365379.    

Allison TH, Davis BC, Webb JW, Short JC. 2017. Persuasion in Crowdfunding: An Elaboration Likelihood Model of Crowdfunding PerformanceJournal of Business Venturing, 32(6): 707-725. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.09.002     

McKenny AF, Allison TH, Ketchen DJ, Short JC, Ireland RD. 2017. How Should Crowdfunding Research Evolve?: A Survey of the Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Editorial BoardEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(2): 291-304. doi: 10.1111/etap.12269 [Editorial]     

Short JC, Ketchen DJ, McKenny AF, Allison TH, Ireland RD. 2017. Research on Crowdfunding: Reviewing the (Very Recent) Past and Celebrating the PresentEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(2): 149-160. doi: 10.1111/etap.12270 [Special Issue Introduction]     

Plummer LA, Allison TH, Connelly BL. 2016. Better together? Signaling interactions in new venture pursuit of initial external capitalAcademy of Management Journal, 59(5): 1585-1604. doi: 10.5465/amj.2013.0100      

Baur JE, Ellen BP, Buckley MR, Ferris GR, Allison TH, McKenny AF, Short JC. 2016. More than One Way to Articulate a Vision:  A Configurations Approach to Leader Charismatic Rhetoric and InfluenceThe Leadership Quarterly, 27(1): 156-171. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.08.002      

Allison TH, Davis BC, Short JC, Webb JW. 2015. Crowdfunding in a Prosocial Microlending Environment: Examining the Role of Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic CuesEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39(1): 53 73. doi: 10.1111/etap.12108      

Allison TH, McKenny AF, Short JC. 2014. Integrating time into Family Business Research: Using random coefficients modeling to examine temporal influences on family firm ambidexterityFamily Business Review, 27(1), 20-34. doi: 10.1177/0894486513494782.      

Allison TH, McKenny AF, Short JC. 2014. Entrepreneurial rhetoric and business plan funding: an empirical examination. In RP Hart (ed), Communication and Language Analysis in the Corporate World,  pp. 21-35. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4999-6.ch002    

Anglin AH, Allison TH, McKenny AF, & Busenitz LW. 2014. The Role of Charismatic Rhetoric in Crowdfunding: An Examination with Computer-Aided Text Analysis. In JC Short (Ed.), Social Entrepreneurship and Research MethodsResearch Methodology in Strategy and Management Volume 9: pp. 19-48. New York: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. doi: 10.1108/S1479-838720140000009010    

Chandler GN, Broberg JC, Allison TH. 2014. Customer Value Propositions in Declining Industries: Differences between Industry Representative and High-Growth FirmsStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(3): 234 253. doi: 10.1002/sej.1181      

Allison TH, McKenny AF, Short JC. 2013. The effect of entrepreneurial rhetoric on microlending investment: An examination of the warm-glow effectJournal of Business Venturing, 28(6): 690-707. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.01.003      

Chandler GN, Allison TH. 2012. Finding and Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Logan, UT: MyEducator, Inc. 

Plummer LA, Allison TH. 2012. External resource acquisition in spatially isolated firms. Academy of Management Proceedings (Best Paper Proceedings). 

Allison TH, Busenitz LW. 2012. Investor engagement and the interaction of the opportunity and the environment: Alertness to customer needs and to new technologiesFrontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 32. 

Plummer LA, Allison TH. 2011. Spatial isolation and resource acquisition in new venturesFrontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 31.   

 

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