Publications

Most Important Publications

  • Campos, F., Frese, M., Goldstein, M., Iacovone, L., Johnson, H., McKenzie, D., Mensmann, M. (2017). Teaching personal initiative beats traditional business training in boosting small business in West Africa. Science, 357, 1287-1290. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5329 (external website).
  • Frese, M., Gielnik, M. M., & Mensmann, M. (2016). Psychological training for entrepreneurs to take action: Contributing to poverty reduction in developing countries. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(3), 196-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416636957 (external website).
  • Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., et al. (2015). Action and action-regulation in entrepreneurship: Evaluating a student training for promoting entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14(1), 69-94. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2012.0107 (external website).
  • Glaub, M., Frese, M., Fischer, S., Hoppe, M. (2014). Increasing personal initiative in small business managers/owners leads to entrepreneurial success: A theory-based controlled ran-domized field intervention for evidence-based management. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 13, 354-379. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2013.0234 (external website).
  • Mensmann, M. & Frese, M. (2017). Proactive behavior training: Theory, design, and future directions. In S. K. Parker & U. K. Bindl (Eds.), Proactivity at Work (pp. 434-468). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315797113 (external website).

Most Recent Publications

  • Eller, F. J., Gielnik, M. M., Yeves, J., Alvarado, Y. C., & Guerrero, O. A. (2021). Adjusting the sails: Investigating the feedback loop of the opportunity development process in entrepreneurship training. Academy of Management Learning & Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2020.0041 (external website).
  • Bischoff, K. M., Gielnik, M. M., & Frese, M. (2020) When capital does not matter: How entrepreneurship training buffers the negative effect of capital constraints on business creation. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1364 (external website).
  • Funken, R., Gielnik, M. M., & Foo, M.-D. (2020). How can problems be turned into something good? The role of entrepreneurial learning and error mastery orientation. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 44(2), 315-338. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718801600 (external website).
  • Gielnik, M. M., Bledow, R., & Stark, M. S. (2020). A dynamic account of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(5), 487-505. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/apl0000451 (external website).
  • Lex, M., Gielnik, M. M., Spitzmuller, M., Jacob, G. H., & Frese, M. (2020). How passion in entrepreneurship develops over time: A self-regulation perspective. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258720929894 (external website).
  • Melyoki, L. L. & Gielnik, M. M. (2020). How action-oriented entrepreneurship training transforms university students into entrepreneurs: Insights from a qualitative study. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship. https://doi.org/10.1080/08276331.2020.1832831 (external website).
  • Zhu, J., Bischoff, K. M., Handrich, E., Bellstedt, D., Gielnik, M. M. & Frese, M. (2020). The Effectiveness of An Effectuation Approach on Opportunity Identificaton and Pursuit: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Field Experiment, Academy of Management Learning & Education. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2017.0092 (external website).