Kimberly Ann Eddleston is the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship,[1] and Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.[2][3] Her expertise on subjects related to family business management and small business management is quoted in US sources.[4][5][6] She has received many academic awards by US institutions and is a leading editor of several academic journals.
Eddleston's education leaned towards business studies driven by family ties.[7] She obtained a BS in Business Administration from Bryant University (Smithfield, RI) in 1992.[2] She gained an MS in Hotel Administration from Institut de Management Hotelier International, Cornell University/Groupe ESSEC in 1995.[3] She obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut in 2001.[8]
Eddleston worked as an assistant director at Westin Hotel Copley Place, Boston, MA (1995-1996). She was an Assistant Director of the Wolff Family Program in Entrepreneurship, at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT.) from 1996 to 2001. At this university she was a Lecturer of Management at the School of Business Administration from 2000 to 2001. In 2001, she began a teaching and research career at her current institution, the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University (Boston), where she successively became an Assistant Professor (since 2001), Associate Professor (since 2008), and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation since 2014.[2][3]
She is a Montoni Research Fellow, and a Faculty Fellow at Cornell University’s Smith Family Business Initiative.[2] Additionally, she has held appointments as a Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen Center for Family Business,[9] Toft Professor in Family Business at Jönköping International Business School (2013 – 2015),[9] Visiting Scholar at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2018),[10] and Visiting Scholar in Small Business at Florida Atlantic University, (2018 – 2019).[11]
She is the founding editor, and Editor in Chief of familybusiness.org, [12][13] and a Senior Editor of the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eix.org).[14] Also, she is or has been an editor of other academic journals including Organizational Dynamics,[15] Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,[16] Journal of Family Business Strategy,[17] Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,[18] Small Business Economics,[19] Asia Pacific Journal of Management,[20] Long Range Planning,[21] Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,[22] and Journal of Business Venturing.[3]
In 2012, Eddleston received the Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar Award in 2012 from the University of North Texas.[23] In 2006 and 2015 she received Family Owned Business Institute Scholar Award from Grand Valley State University.[24] In 2015, she received the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship.[1]
Her research received awards from learned societies, among them the Academy of Management (2002),[25] the Family Firm Institute (2010, 2018),[26] the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA),[27] and the US Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, USASBE (2015, 2017).[28][29][30][31]
Eddleston has published over 160 papers, which have been cited over 15,000 times, according to Google Scholar.[32] Her most cited papers are:
Jennings, J.E., Eddleston, K.A., Jennings, P.D. & Sarathy, R. 2015. Firms Within Families: Enterprising in Diverse Country Contexts. Edward Elgar Publishing.[33]