Jerome Katz

Jerome A. Katz
Born	Jerome A. Katz Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Occupation	Professor
Employer	Saint Louis University
Title	Coleman Endowed Professor in Entrepreneurship
Predecessor	Robert Brockhaus
Website	http://entrepreneurshipeducation.info, http://eweb.slu.edu

Jerome A. Katz is an American professor, consultant and author who specializes in entrepreneurship. He is the Coleman Chair of Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University in St Louis, Missouri.

Education

Katz attended Rhodes College in Memphis from 1970 to 1973, earning a BA (Honors) in psychology and political science. He then received a Masters in psychology from the University of Memphis in 1976 before going to Harvard to study administration, planning and social policy where he received a Certificate of Advanced Study in 1977. His PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan was awarded in 1981.

Academia

He taught at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business from 1981 to 1987. He moved to Saint Louis University in 1987. In 2005 he took over the Coleman Chair of Entrepreneurship from Robert Brockhaus, who held the chair since its inception in 1991. He is the current director of the Billiken Angels Network, an angel investor group that invests in start-ups and growing companies in the St. Louis MO-IL region or firms elsewhere with a tie to Saint Louis University.

Publications

Katz, with Richard Green, is the author of Entrepreneurial Small Business, a textbook for small business owners published in US, international, and Chinese editions by McGraw-Hill. He is a founding editor for the annual book series Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth published by Emerald. He is also the author of over 30 peer-reviewed academic papers, including four papers included in compendia of notable or classic works in entrepreneurship. In 2013, Katz and William Gartner received the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division Foundational Paper Award for their 1988 paper “Properties of Emerging Organizations.”

Selected books

• Katz, J.A and Green, R. P. (2014). Entrepreneurial Small Business, 4th Edition. Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw Hill Higher Education.

Selected articles

• Gaglio, C.M. and Katz, J.A.(2001). The psychological basis of opportunity identification: entrepreneurial alertness. Small Business Economics, 16(2), March, 95-111. Reprinted in Dean Shepherd and Denis Gregoire, Editors (2012). International Library of Entrepreneurship: Opportunity Recognition. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
• Katz, J. A. (1994). Modelling entrepreneurial career progressions: concepts and considerations. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. Winter, 19 (2), 23-40. Reprinted in Paul Westhead and Mike Wright, Editors, (2001). Advances in Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. ISSN 1042-2587
• Katz, J.A. (1993). The dynamics of organizational emergence: a contemporary group formation perspective. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 17 (2), 97-102. Reprinted in Scott Shane, Editor, (2002). The Foundations of Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Reprinted in Norris Krueger, Editor (2002), Entrepreneurship: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, London, UK: Routledge.
• MacMillan, I.C. and Katz, J.A. (1992). Idiosyncratic milieus of entrepreneurship research: the need for comprehensive theories. Journal of Business Venturing, 7 (1), 1-8. Reprinted in Norris Krueger, Editor (2002), Entrepreneurship: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, London, UK: Routledge.
• Katz, J. and Gartner, W.B. (1988). Properties of emerging organizations. Academy of Management Review, 13(3), 429-441. Reprinted in Landström, H., Lohrke, F., Editors (2012), Intellectual Roots of Entrepreneurship Research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Awarded the 2013 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Foundational Paper Award.