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Academic History

• B.S., M.S.A., Accounting, Illinois State University; Bloomington, IL, 2014

• Ph.D., Organizations and Strategy, University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN, 2019

Expertise

• Stress, Coping, and Well-Being

• New Venture Teams

• Team Conflict

• Qualitative Methods

Selected Publications

• Lerman, M., Ju, H., & Nikolaev, B. (forthcoming) "Towards a Coping-in-Combination Approach: The Benefits of Combining Coping Strategies for Purpose in Life of the Self-Employed", BRQ Business Research Quarterly,

• D’Oria, L., Scheaf, D.1, Michaelis, T.L., & Lerman, M.P. (forthcoming) "Para-social Mentoring: The Effects of Entrepreneurship Influencers on Entrepreneurs", Journal of Business Venturing,

• Dwyer, S., Lerman, M. & Gras, D. (forthcoming) "When the Going Gets Tough…: Stressors and Purpose in Life Among Social and Commercial Entrepreneurs", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Link to Paper

• Michaelis, T., Carr, J., Spivack, A., McKelvie, A., & Lerman, M. (2023) "Health Resourcefulness Behaviors: Implications of Work-Health Resource Trade-offs for the Self-employed", Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20Link to Paper

• Yan, J., Mmbaga, N., Lerman, M.P., Munyon, T.P. (2023) "Driven to Influence: How Entrepreneurial Drive and Political Skill Influence New Venture Performance", Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 35 (9-10):885-904. Link to Paper

• Mmbaga, N., Lerman, M., Munyon, T., & Lanivich, S. (2023) "Juggling Act: Waged Time Investments and the Health–Wealth Trade-off", Journal of Business Research, 158:113695. Link to Paper

• Nikolaev, B. N., Lerman, M. P., Boudreaux, C. J., & Mueller, B. A. (2023) "Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Problem- and Emotion-Focused Coping", Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47 (6):2127-2154. Link to Paper

• Lerman, M., Mmbaga, N., Smith, A. (2022) "Tracing Ideas from Langley (1999): Exemplars, Adaptations, Considerations, and Overlooked", Organizational Research Methods, 25 (2):285-307. Link to Paper

• Lerman, M. P., Munyon, T., Williams, D. (2021) "The (not so) dark side of entrepreneurship: Ameta-analysis of the well-being and performanceconsequences of entrepreneurial stress", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Link to Paper

• O’Kane, P., Smith, A., Lerman, M.P (2019) "Building Transparency and Trustworthiness in Inductive Research through Computer-Aided Qualitative Data Analysis Software", Organizational Research Methods, Link to Paper