About Us

Dr. Andre Laplume is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. Holds a PhD in Management, an MBA and Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Manitoba.

He is interested in the intersections between incumbent firms and startups. His research aims to explain and predict entrepreneurial behaviours and firm responses. His work appears in Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, and Human Relations.

Dr. Sepideh Yeganegi is an Associate Professor of Management at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. She earned a PhD in Management from University of Manitoba and a Master's in Entrepreneurship from the University of Tehran.

She is interested in barriers to and enablers of entrepreneurship. She has published in Research Policy, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Business Venturing Insights and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.