Dr. Bruce Barringer
Professor

bruce.barringer@okstate.edu
107 Business Building

405-744-9702 (office)
405-744-3352 (department)

Academic, Military, and Professional Positions

Awards and Honors

Best Paper Award in the Strategic Management Track (2007)

Education

Ph D, University of Missouri, Management, 1995
MBA, Iowa State University, , 1991
BS, Iowa State University, Agricultural Business, 1978

Courses Taught

Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Virtual Entrepreneurship Center Web Site Project
Florida I4 Corridor
- 2006

Course and Program Grant Proposal for Engineering Entrepreneurship Certificate Program
National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
- 2002

Self Vacuum Storage Bag E-Team
Lemelson Foundation
- 2002

Publications

Bruce Barringer, 2009, "The Truths About Starting a Business," Financial Times

Z. Zang, Bruce Barringer, D. Tzabbar, 2008, "Alliances and Customer Dissatisfaction," Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship, 13 (3), 35-46.

Bruce Barringer, A. Gresock, 2008, "Formalizing the Front-End of the Entrepreneurial Process Using the Stage-Gate Model as a Guide: An Opportunity to Improve Education and Practice," Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 15 (2), 289-303.

Bruce Barringer, 2008, "Preparing Effective Business Plans: An Entrepreneurial Approach," Financial Times

Bruce Barringer, D. Ireland, 2008, "What's Stopping You? Shatter the Nine Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business," Financial Times

Bruce Barringer, R.d. Ireland, 2007, "Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures," Prentice-Hall (2)

Bruce Barringer, R. Jones, D.o. Neubaum, 2005, "A Quantitative Content Analysis of the Characteristics of Rapid-Growth Firms and their Founders," Journal of Business Venturing, 20 (5), 663-687.

Bruce Barringer, F.f. Jones, 2003, "Achieving Rapid Growth: Revisiting the Managerial Capacity Problem," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 9 (1), 73-86.

Presentations Given

Understanding Individual Factors that Contribute to Pre-Launch Planning
Babson-Kauffman Foundation Research Conference
Southwest Academy of Management Annual Meeting
Chapel Hill NC - June 2008

Keynote Address, "Growing Entrepreneurial Firms"
Redempyme Congress
EOI Business School
Madrid and Sevilla Spain - November 13 2007

Formalizing the Front End of the Entrepreneurial Process Using the Stage-Gate Model
Annual Meeting
Academy of Management
Philadelphia PA - August 2007

Does Participating in Alliances Benefit the Customer of the Local Firm? An Empirical Investigation of Alliance Effects on Customer Satisfaction in the Airline Industry
Annual Meeting
Southwest Academy of Management
San Diego CA - March 2007

Achieving Rapid Growth: How Rapid-Growth Firms Lessen the Managerial Capacity Problem
Annual Meeting
Academy of Management
Seattle WA - August 2003

Opportunity or Threat: The Role of Strategic Alliances in Enhancing the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms
Babson-Kauffman Foundation Research Conference
June 2003

Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Rapid and Nonrapid Growth Firms
Babson-Kauffman Foundation Research Conference
June 2003

A Qualitative Study of the Managerially Controlled Attributes of Rapid-Growth Firms
United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Reno NV - January 2002