Audra Quinn

Supervisor(s)

• Darren Meister
• Denis Grégoire

Audra is an Entrepreneurship PhD student at the Ivey Business School. Having had a diverse career and successful exit from her own entrepreneurial venture, she brings unique perspective to her research program. Her dissertation focuses on cofounder selection, dynamics, and satisfaction among entrepreneurs who pursue new venture creation together. She contributes a relational view to the entrepreneurial teams literature, developing novel theoretical insight around the importance of fit between dyadic pairs, relational norms of reciprocity, and dynamics of psychological safety and perceived justice. In addition to contributing to theory, she hopes her work will help entrepreneurs think critically when choosing cofounders to achieve better cofounder fit and satisfaction.

Education

• Master's of Business Administration, August 2013
  Emphasis in Entrepreneurship
  Pepperdine University
  Graziadio School of Business & Management
•  Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication, May 2003
  Minor in Journalism
  Albion College, Albion, Michigan

Research Interests

• Entrepreneurial teams
• Cofounder selection & satisfaction
• Team innovation & creativity
• Decision-making

Publications

• A Fear of Failure Fallacy? How Team Innovation Beliefs and Performance Relate to Fear of Failure. N Ouslis, AG Quinn, N Allen. Academy of Management Proceedings 2020 (1), 19940

Presentations

• Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021 Symposium. Facts vs. Folklore of Founding Teams: Let’s Talk with the Trailblazers. Organizers: A. Quinn, J. D’Mello. Presenters: E. Mollick, A. Franco, H. Aldrich, C. Ben-Hafaïedh, M. Ruef, M. Zellmer-Bruhn, N.Wasserman, N. Breugst.
• Quinn, A., Meister, D., & Grégoire, D.A. (2021). Selecting Well Drives Cofounder Satisfaction. Accepted for presentation at 2021 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Munich, Germany.
• Quinn, A., (2021). Key Elements of Cofounder Fit. Accepted for presentation at 2021 California Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, San Diego, California, USA.
• Quinn, A., Byrne, J. (2020) A Chip on the Shoulder and a Pat on the Back: Social Support, Reflected Appraisals and Entrepreneurial Intentions. Accepted for presentation at 2020 DIANA Conference, postponed to May 2021 due to coronavirus.
• Quinn, A., Meister, D., & Grégoire, D.A. (2020). From “Me” To “We”: How And Why Entrepreneurs Select Cofounders. Accepted for presentation at 2020 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Knoxville, TN. Conference canceled due to coronavirus.
• Quinn, A., Meister, D. (2020) The “Relationship Talk” Between Cofounders: Developing And Validating A Scale Of Cofounder Satisfaction. Accepted for presentation at 2020 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Knoxville, TN. Conference canceled due to coronavirus.
• Ouslis, N., Quinn, A., Allen, N., Meister, D. (2020) A Fear of Failure Fallacy? How Team Innovation Beliefs and Performance Relate to Fear of Failure. Accepted for presentation at 2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. Conference held virtually due to coronavirus.
• Quinn, A. (2019) Founder Seeks Cofounder: Evaluating the Benefits of a Formal Cofounder Selection Process Among Nascent Entrepreneurs. Accepted for presentation at 2019 Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference.
• Quinn, A., & Meister, D. (n.d.). 30 Years of Choosing Cofounders A Systematic Review of Entrepreneurial Founder Team Formation and Updated Decision-making Model.
• Keynote speaker, Pepperdine University Micro-Enterprise Program graduation – April, 2017
• How To Crowdfund Your Dream Into Reality, Pepperdine University & General Assembly – 2015

Academic Experience

• Lecturer, University of Western Ontario Engineering, London, ON
• Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University, The Graziadio School of Business & Management, Los Angeles, California
• Adjunct Professor, California State Polytechnic University, The Collins College of Hospitality Management, Pomona, California

Professional Experience

• CEO, Co-Founder, Uncorked! Games, Los Angeles, California
• Content Marketing Managing Editor, Capital Group, Los Angeles, California
• Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University, The Graziadio School of Business & Management, Los Angeles, California & California State Polytechnic University, The Collins College of Hospitality Management, Pomona, California
• Managing Editor, Graziadio Business Review, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

Awards and Honours

• Selected for the 2021 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference Doctoral Consortium
• Selected for the 2021 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Doctoral Consortium
• S. Chum Torno Scholarship
• Brock Scholarship
• John F. Rankin Scholarship