![Dr Anna Jenkins](/sites/default/files/profiles/3048.jpeg)
Overview
Background
Areas of expertise:
- The processes activities involved in creating high impact startups
- The development and evolution of startup ecosystems
- The impact firm failure has on small business owners’ well-being including their financial, and emotional well-being and how they respond to and cope with firm failure
Dr Anna Jenkins studies the startup process, the activities and processes which entrepreneurs engage in to explain why some startups emerge successful and growing and others either stagnate or fail. She currently holds an ARC Discovery grant for this project where she is leading a project following the development and trajectories of startups for over four years. She is also leading a research project on the development of startup ecosystems where the research team is conducting a longitudinal ethnographic study on how startup ecosystems emerge.
Her other area of expertise on how small business owners manage setbacks and failure. Her research focuses on how small business owners respond to failure, how they reduce the impact failure can have on their well-being, and the effectiveness of different coping strategies for their well-being and future employment. She was been awarded a number of prestigious research grants for this work including funding from The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council and Swedbank.
She is familiar with a variety of research methods having conducted large scale longitudinal quantitative studies and narrative interviews with small business owners who have failed. As well as ethnographic field work and experiments.
Availability
- Dr Anna Jenkins is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Hogskolan i Jonkoping
Works
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2024
Journal Article
Routine formation as a layered process
Spee, Paul, Kho, Joanna, Jenkins, Anna and Jarzabkowski, Paula (2024). Routine formation as a layered process. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 88, 203-220. doi: 10.1108/s0733-558x20240000088010
2024
Journal Article
Anticipatory regulation for pandemic responses: are we there yet?
Oyola-Lozada, Maria Giuliana, Pregelj, Lisette, Jenkins, Anna, Siegel, Evan, Munro, Trent and Hine, Damian (2024). Anticipatory regulation for pandemic responses: are we there yet?. Trends in Biotechnology, 42 (9), 1067-1071. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2024.02.016
2023
Journal Article
Back to work? How employers perceive applicants’ experience of entrepreneurial failure
Jenkins, Anna, Achtenhagen, Leona and Hellerstedt, Karin (2023). Back to work? How employers perceive applicants’ experience of entrepreneurial failure. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36 (5-6), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2277791
2022
Other Outputs
Interviews
Oyola Lozada, Giuliana, Jenkins, Anna, Pregelj, Lisette and MacAulay, Sam (2022). Interviews. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/4ef737d
2022
Other Outputs
Reaching crunch time: fight or fold
Jenkins, Anna and Spee, Paul (2022). Reaching crunch time: fight or fold. London, ON, Canada: Ivey Publishing.
2022
Journal Article
Willing but fearful: resilience and youth entrepreneurial intentions
Ukil, Minhajul Islam and Jenkins, Anna (2022). Willing but fearful: resilience and youth entrepreneurial intentions. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 30 (1), 78-99. doi: 10.1108/jsbed-03-2022-0154
2022
Conference Publication
Gender bias in idea generation and the evaluation of creative ideas: an online behavioural experiment
Langham, Jo’Anne, Lin, Caihui, Jenkins, Anna, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Mikolajewska-Zajac, Karolina and Paulsen, Neil (2022). Gender bias in idea generation and the evaluation of creative ideas: an online behavioural experiment. 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE 2022, Pafos, Cyprus, 15-16 September 2022. Reading, United Kingdom: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
2022
Journal Article
Understanding entrepreneurial failure: conceptualizing failure, taking stock, and broadening the scope of failure research
Jenkins, Anna (2022). Understanding entrepreneurial failure: conceptualizing failure, taking stock, and broadening the scope of failure research. Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship, 18 (3), 159-211. doi: 10.1561/0300000081
2022
Book Chapter
Introduction to the Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice
Thompson, Neil Aaron, Byrne, Orla, Jenkins, Anna and Teague, Bruce T. (2022). Introduction to the Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice. Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice. (pp. 1-19) edited by Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. Teague. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788976831.00006
2022
Book
Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice
Thompson, Neil, Teague, Bruce, Jenkins, Anna and Byrne, Orla (2022). Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice. Glos, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788976831
2021
Conference Publication
Routine emergence, selection and persistence: How entrepreneurs manage their business models in dynamic environments
Kho, Joanna, Jenkins, Anna and Spee, Paul (2021). Routine emergence, selection and persistence: How entrepreneurs manage their business models in dynamic environments. 37th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-10 July 2021.
2021
Conference Publication
Forming new routines
Spee, Paul, Kho, Joanna and Jenkins, Anna (2021). Forming new routines. 37th European Group for Organizational Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-10 July 2021.
2021
Journal Article
Relief and exploration after firm failure: Taking into account pre-failure experiences to understand post-failure responses
Jenkins, Anna S (2021). Relief and exploration after firm failure: Taking into account pre-failure experiences to understand post-failure responses. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 15 e00226, e00226. doi: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2021.e00226
2021
Book Chapter
Entrepreneurial failure and exit
Jenkins, Anna and Byrne, Orla (2021). Entrepreneurial failure and exit. The psychology of entrepreneurship: new perspectives. (pp. 244-262) edited by Michael M. Gielnik, Melissa S. Cardon and Michael Frese. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003137573-14
2020
Journal Article
When fear of failure leads to intentions to act entrepreneurially: Insights from threat appraisals and coping efficacy
Hunter, Erik, Jenkins, Anna and Mark-Herbert, Cecilia (2020). When fear of failure leads to intentions to act entrepreneurially: Insights from threat appraisals and coping efficacy. International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 39 (5), 1-17. doi: 10.1177/0266242620967006
2020
Journal Article
Wicked problems, reductive tendency, and the formation of (non-)opportunity beliefs
Gras, David, Conger, Michael, Jenkins, Anna and Gras, Michael (2020). Wicked problems, reductive tendency, and the formation of (non-)opportunity beliefs. Journal of Business Venturing, 35 (3) 105966, 105966. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2019.105966
2018
Journal Article
Understanding entrepreneurial success: a phenomenographic approach
Angel, Pablo, Jenkins, Anna and Stephens, Anna (2018). Understanding entrepreneurial success: a phenomenographic approach. International Small Business Journal, 36 (6), 026624261876866-636. doi: 10.1177/0266242618768662
2018
Journal Article
Motivated but not starting: how fear of failure impacts entrepreneurial intentions
Ng, Leon and Jenkins, Anna Saies (2018). Motivated but not starting: how fear of failure impacts entrepreneurial intentions. Small Enterprise Research, 25 (2), 152-167. doi: 10.1080/13215906.2018.1480412
2017
Journal Article
Is this the end? Investigating firm and individual level outcomes post-failure
Jenkins, Anna and McKelvie, Alexander (2017). Is this the end? Investigating firm and individual level outcomes post-failure. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 8, 138-143. doi: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2017.10.002
2016
Journal Article
What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research
Jenkins, Anna and McKelvie, Alexander (2016). What is entrepreneurial failure? Implications for future research. International Small business Journal, 34 (2), 176-188. doi: 10.1177/0266242615574011
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Anna Jenkins is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Understanding learning of novice entrepreneurs during new venture creation
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Paul Spee
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Doctor Philosophy
Artificial intelligence in medical imaging: understanding the frames that influence the adoption and integration of new technology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sam MacAulay
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Doctor Philosophy
Disruptive innovation: How can it be valued and priced? A case of novel theranostics in oncology
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lisette Pregelj, Dr Sam MacAulay
Completed supervision
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Towards Understanding the Liminal Experiences of Expatriate Spouses
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Miriam Moeller
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
A realist evaluation: How institutional entrepreneurs build adaptive not-for-profit healthcare organisations
Associate Advisor
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