Sarah Burrows

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Sarah Burrows is a professor of Entrepreneurship in the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. Sarah's research focuses on leveraging her background in psychology to understand how family dynamics influence the management of the firm and entrepreneurship across generations.

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Academic Area

Strategy and Organizations

Interest Topics

Behaviour & Psychology
Entrepreneurship
Management
Strategy & Innovation

Faculty Details

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Full Bio

Sarah received her PhD in Management from the University of Central Florida in 2023 and received her M.Sc. in Management from John Molson School of Business at Concordia University in 2018.

Her research interests are in the area of entrepreneurship and family business. Although her research uses both quantitative and qualitative methodology, she is particularly passionate about qualitative methods that enable her to dig deeper into a phenomenon and connect with entrepreneurs and their families.

Sarah has published in Family Business Review and presented at conferences, such as the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Southern Management Association Conference, and the International Family Enterprise Research Conference. She has also been awarded the 2022-2023 Social Sciences Human Research Council (SSRHC) Doctoral Fellowship Award, as well as the University of Central Florida's Dean's Dissertation completion award.

Academic Degrees

PhD of Business Administration, Management, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 2018-2023

M.Sc. Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Jaskiewicz, 2016-2018

Bachelor of Arts, Honors Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Supervisor: Dr. Peter Jaskiewicz & Dr. Theresa Bianco, 2012-2016

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Combs, J. G., Shanine, K. K., Burrows, S., Allen, J. S., & Pounds, T. W. (2020). What Do We Know
About Business Families? Setting the Stage for Leveraging Family Science
Theories. Family Business Review, 33(1), 38–63.

Works in Progress

Burrows, S., Crossley, C., Faherty, C., & Combs, J.G. Creating “Tommys”: When Nonfamily Employees
Feel Like Owners and Defend the Family Firm Like “Part of the Family”? To be submitted to Journal
of Management Studies.

Burrows, S., Jaskiewicz, P., Deephouse, D, & Suddaby, R. Tradition fit: How family firms can
leverage rhetorical histories to combat legitimacy threats. Final draft in progress. To be
submitted to Academy of Management Journal by Fall 2023.

Burrows, S., Combs, J.G., & Jaskiewicz, P. Toward a balanced theory of the family firm. Draft in
progress. To be submitted to Academy of Management Review by end of Fall 2023.

Burrows, S., Skandera, D.J., Silva, B., & Joseph, D. Who’s the better employer: Family versus
non-family firms? Coding of primary studies to be meta-analyzed. Target journal Journal of
Management.

Gish, J., Lassau, R., Stephan, U., Carr, J., Burrows, S., & Pollack. J. Nature Interventions &
Entrepreneurial Well-being. Part 1: Qualitative data collection in progress.

Burrows, S., Crossley, C., & Faherty, F. Big foot, unicorns & the bifurcation bias:
Distinguishing reality from myth. Scale development in progress.

Manuscripts Under Review

Hamrick, H., Burrows, S., Waddingham, J.A., & Crossley, C. It’s My Business! The Influence
of Psychological Ownership on Entrepreneurial Intentions and Work Performance. 1st round
R&R at Journal of Organizational Behavior

Teaching

Instructor

ENT 4013-New Venture Design, Fall 2022
MAN 4720-Strategic Management (2 sections) Spring 2021
MAN 4720-Strategic Management (2 sections) Fall 2020
MAN 4720-Strategic Management (2 sections) Fall 2019
MAN 4720-Strategic Management (2 sections) Spring 2019
MAN 4720-Strategic Management (2 sections) Fall 2018

Graduate Teaching Assistant

MAN 6721-Applied Strategy & Business Policy (MBA, 1 section) Spring 2022
MAN 6721-Applied Strategy & Business Policy (MBA, 2 sections) Spring 2021
MAN 6721-Applied Strategy & Business Policy (MBA, 2 sections) Spring 2020
MAN 6721-Applied Strategy & Business Policy (MBA, 2 sections) Spring 2019

Research

Research Interests

Family Business, Family Entrepreneurship, Family Science, Qualitative Research

Research in Practice

Spotify Podcast, 2021

YouTube Webinar, 2021

IrishNews, 2020

Presentations

Conference Presentations

Burrows, S., & Combs, J. G. (June 2023). The Distribution of Entrepreneurship Within & Across
Generations of Enterprising Families. Paper presentation at the 2023 Babson conference. Knoxville,
Tennessee.

Burrows, S., Crossley, C., Faherty, C., & Combs, J.G. (November 2021) Fighting for the family firm:
Can nonfamily employees defend like “part of the family” ? Paper presentation at the 2021
conference of Southern Management Association, New Orleans, LA.
* Finalist for the Best Doctoral Student Paper Award for Track 1: Entrepreneurship & Family
Business.

Burrows, S., Jaskiewicz, P., & Deephouse, D. (June 2019). The stakeholder identification handcuff:
A National & Local Newspaper Analysis of Anheuser-Busch. Paper presentation at the International
Family Enterprise Research Academy, Bergamo, It.

Burrows, S., Jaskiewicz, P., & Deephouse, D. (August 2018). How do stakeholders respond to changes
in firm image? Paper presentation at the 78ᵗʰ Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago,
IL.

Burrows, S., Jaskiewicz, P., & Deephouse, D. (October 2017). The handcuffing effect of
stakeholders: A National Newspaper Analysis of Anheuser-Busch. Paper presentation at
the 2017 conference of Southern Management Association, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Awards

Research Grants & Awards

University of Central Florida’s Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Value: $10,000, 2023
Social Sciences Human Resource Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship Award, Value: $20,000, 2022
Southern Management Association Grant, Value: $500, 2018, 2021
UCF Student Government Association Grant, Value: $500, 2018