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Research with Impact

I am a nationally and internationally recognized scholar within the area of entrepreneurship having a particular expertise with regards to the influence of gender upon women’s entrepreneurship, high technology business incubation and family business. I was ranked amongst the top 2% of scientists in the world for research impact in 2021 and 2022.


CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


  • Women's Entrepreneurship 
  • Women in Family Business
  • Women's Digital Entrepreneurship
  • Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Women Entrepreneurship and traditional masculine industries
  • Entrepreneurial Behavior, gender and diverse contexts.

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Research outputs

RESEARCH OUTPUT

Journal Publications 

(note that some of these have links to the publication, and some don't. I'll be working my way through them to add the links)


  • Kelly, G. and McAdam, M., (2022). Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, p.10422587221115363.
  • Lefebvre, M.R. Ronteau, S., Lefebvre, V., and McAdam, M. (2022) Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/08985626.2022.2075472?casa_token=HqMTjc5S7_8AAAAA:Od-IwPUsJLJUOYiG5chLzJ8WZJSxtUoyoVAi4g4lMrFCgaOa73si-Ltv_vfqaOlXPc-BTTArB21t0fo
  • Kelly, G. and McAdam, M. (2022) Scaffolding Liminality: The Lived Experience of Women Entrepreneurs in Digital Spaces. Technovation - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102537
  • Vershinina, N., Phillips, N. and McAdam, M., (2022). Online communities and entrepreneuring mothers: practices of building, being and belonging. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, pp.1-23.
  • Brush, C., Manolova, T. Edelman, L., Eddleston, K. McAdam, M.  and Rossi-Lamastra, C. (2022) Catalyzing Change and Innovation in Women’s Entrepreneurship, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Forthcoming
  •  McAdam, M., Brophy, M. and Harrison, R.T. (2021). Anointed or appointed? Father–daughter succession within the family business. International Small Business Journal, 39(6) 576–600.
  •  McAdam, M., Miller, K. and McAdam, R. (2021). A micro level investigation of stakeholder motives on university technology transfer business models. Studies in Higher Education, 46(5), pp.951-964. 
  • Tlaiss, H.A. and McAdam, M., (2021). Unexpected lives: the intersection of Islam and Arab women’s entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Ethics, 171(2), pp.253-272. 
  • Clinton, E., McAdam, M., Gamble, J.R. and Brophy, M., (2021). Entrepreneurial learning: The transmitting and embedding of entrepreneurial behaviours within the transgenerational entrepreneurial family. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 33(5-6), pp.383-404. 
  • 9. Xian, H., Jiang, N. and McAdam, M. (2021). Negotiating the female successor–leader role within family business succession in China. International Small Business Journal, 39(2), pp.157-183. 
  • Tlaiss, H.A. and McAdam, M. (2021). Islam, Arab women's entrepreneurship and the construal of success. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 821-844. 
  • Alrubaishi, D., McAdam, M. and Harrison, R., (2021). Culture, convention, and continuity: Islam and family firm ethical behavior. Business Ethics: A European Review, 30(2), pp.202-215. 
  • Alrubaishi, D., McAdam, M. and Harrison, R., (2021). Culture, Islamic capital and the entrepreneurial behaviour of family firms in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 27 (6) pp. 1476-1501. 
  • Alrubaishi, D., Alarifi, G. and McAdam, M. (2021). Innovation heterogeneity in family firms: evidence from the date industry in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Vol. 22(2) 75–87. 
  • McAdam, M., Clinton, E. and Dibrell, C., (2020). Navigation of the paradoxical landscape of the family business. International Small Business Journal, 38(3), pp.139-153.
  • McAdam, M., Crowley, C. and Harrison, H. (2020) Digital girl: Cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Small Business Economics, 55(2), 349-362.
  • Miller, K., McAdam, M., Spieth, P. and Brady, M. (2020). Business models big and small: Review of conceptualisations and constructs and future directions for SME business model research. Journal of Business Research, 131: 619-626. 
  • Al Ayyash, S., McAdam, M. and O’Gorman, C. (2020) Towards a New Perspective on the Heterogeneity of Business Incubator-Incubation Definitions IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2020.2984169 
  • Harrison, R.T., Leitch, C.M. and McAdam, M., (2020). Woman’s entrepreneurship as a gendered niche: the implications for regional development policy. Journal of Economic Geography, 20(4), pp.1041-1067.
  • McAdam, M., Leitch, C.M. and Harrison, R.T. (2019) Stories from the Field: Women’s Networking from the Field: Women’s Networking as gender capital in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems. Small Business Economics 53(2), pp.459-474.
  • McAdam, M., Crowley, C. and Harrison, R.T. (2019). “To boldly go where no [man] has gone before”-Institutional voids and the development of women's digital entrepreneurship. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 146, pp.912-922.
  • Vershnina, N., Rodgers, P., McAdam, M., Clinton, E. (2019) Transnational Migrant Entrepreneurship, Gender and Family Business. Global Networks 19(2), pp.238-260.
  • Crowley, C. McAdam, M., Hillard, R., Cunningham, J. (2018) Community of Practice: A Flexible Construct to Identify SME Networking Roles in the Irish Agri-Farmhouse Cheese Sector, Journal of Rural Studies 64, pp.50-62.
  • McAdam, M., Crowley, C. and Harrison, H. (2018) The Emancipatory Potential of Female Digital Entrepreneurship: Institutional Voids in Saudi Arabia, Academy of Management Proceedings Vol. 2018, No. 1 https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.58
  • Clinton, E., McAdam, M. and Gamble, J. (2018) Transgenerational entrepreneurial family businesses: A longitudinal examination of business model structures. Journal of Business Research 90: 269-285.
  • McAdam M. and Debackere, K. and (2018) Beyond “Triple Helix” towards “Quadruple Helix” models in regional innovation systems,R&D Management 48(1), pp.3-6.
  • Miller, K., McAdam, R. and McAdam, M., (2018). A systematic literature review of university technology transfer from a quadruple helix perspective: toward a research agenda. R&D Management, 48(1), pp.7-24
  • McAdam, M., Miller, K., and McAdam, R. (2018) Understanding Quadruple Helix Relationships of University Technology Commercialisation: A Micro Level Approach, Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-16.
  • McAdam, M., Miller, K. and McAdam, R., (2017). University business models in disequilibrium–engaging industry and end users within university technology transfer processes. R&D Management, 47(3), pp.458-472.
  • McAdam, M., Miller, K., and McAdam, R. (2016) Situated Regional University Incubation: A Multi-Level Stakeholder Perspective, Technovation 50-51: 69-78. 
  • McAdam M., McAdam R., Dunne, A. and McCall, C. (2016) Regional horizontal networks within the SME Agri-Food sector: An innovation and social network perspective, Regional Studies 50(8): 1316-1329.
  • Harrison, R., Leitch, C. and McAdam, M. (2015) Breaking Glass: Towards a Gendered Analysis of Entrepreneurial Leadership, Journal of Small Business Management 53(3): 693–713.
  • Marlow, S. and McAdam, M. (2015) Incubation or Induction? Gendered identity work in the context of technology business incubation, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, 39(4): 791-816.
  • Miller, K., McAdam, M. and McAdam, R. (2014) The University Business Model: Evolution and Emergence from a Stakeholder Perspective. R&D Management 44(3): 265-287.
  • McAdam M., McAdam R. Dunne, A. and McCall, C. (2014) Development of SME Horizontal Innovation Networks: UK Agri-Food sector study. International Small Business Journal 32(7): 830-853.
  • McAdam, M. and Marlow, S. (2013) A gendered critique of the copreneurial business partnership: exploring the implications for entrepreneurial emancipation. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 14(3): 151-163.
  • Marlow, S. and McAdam, M. (2013) Advancing debate and challenging myths; exploring the mystery of the under-performing female entrepreneur. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research, 19(1): 114 -124.
  • Wynarczyk, P., Piperopoulos, P.G. and McAdam, M. (2013) Open Innovation in SMEs: Special Issue Overview. International Small Business Journal, 31: 240-255.
  • Battisti, M. and McAdam, M. (2012) The Challenges of Social Capital Development within the University Science Incubator: The Case of the Graduate Entrepreneur. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 13(4): 261-276.
  • McAdam, R., Miller, K., McAdam, M. and Teague, S. (2012) The Development of University Technology Transfer Stakeholder Relationships at a Regional Level: Lessons for the Future. Technovation, 32(1): 57–67.
  • McAdam, M. and Marlow, S. (2011) Sense and sensibility: the role of business incubator client advisors in assisting high technology entrepreneurs to make sense of investment readiness status. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 23(7-8): 449-468.
  • McAdam M., McAdam, R., Galbraith, B. and Millar, K. (2010) An exploratory study of Principal Investigator roles in UK University Proof of Concept processes: An Absorptive Capacity Perspective. R&D Management 40(5): 455-473.
  • McAdam R., McAdam, M. and Brown, V. (2009) The evaluation of the Proof of Concept process and absorptive capacity of University’s technology transfer activities. R&D Management, 39(2): 192-210.
  • McAdam, M. and McAdam, R. (2008) High Tech Start-Ups in University Science Park Incubators: The Inverse Relationship between the Start-up’s Lifecycle Progression and Use of the Incubator’s Resources. Technovation28(5): 277-290.
  • McAdam, M. and Marlow, S. (2008) The University Incubator: Insights in the Entrepreneurial Process from a Network Perspective. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, 14(4): 219-241.
  • McAdam, M. and Marlow, S. (2007) Building Futures or Stealing Secrets? Entrepreneurial Cooperation and Conflict within Business Incubators. International Small Business Journal, 25(4): 359-377.
  • McAdam, M. and McAdam, R. (2006) The Networked Incubator: The Role and Operation of Entrepreneurial Networking with the University Science Park Incubator (USI). International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation7(2): 87-97.
  • McAdam, M. Galbraith, B. McAdam, R. and Humphreys, P. (2006) Business Processes and Networks in University Incubators: A Review and Research Agendas. Journal of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 18(5): 451-472.

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