Research Profile: Justin W. Webb

Justin W. Webb, Belk Distinguished Professor of Business Innovation, is an expert in entrepreneurship, innovation and market-based solutions to poverty. His research interests include the contextual and individual influences on the entrepreneurship process, market-based solutions to poverty in base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurship within the informal economy, and family firm dynamics.

Webb joined the faculty of the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte, where he has designed entrepreneurship classes and programming and is a faculty advisor with the University’s Super Fab Lab. This is the first Super Fab Lab established by any public university in the U.S. Webb’s arrival at Charlotte in 2014 followed five years with Oklahoma State University’s School of Entrepreneurship

His research has been published in top-tier journals, including “Academy of Management Journal,” “Academy of Management Review,” “Journal of Operations Management,” “Journal of Business Venturing,” “Journal of Management,” “Journal of Management Studies” and “Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.”

He currently serves as a member of the editorial board for “Journal of Family Business Strategy” and the review board for “Family Business Review.” He is a guest editor for a special issue of “Journal of Business Venturing” that will focus on customer involvement in the entrepreneurship process of new ventures.

He serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals, including “Academy of Management Journal,” “Journal of Business Venturing,” “Journal of Management Studies” and “Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.” He previously served as a field editor for “Journal of Business Venturing” and associate editor for “Family Business Review.” He also guest co-edited a special issue of “Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal” that offered a unique understanding of how entrepreneurs are influenced by and manage their institutional contexts in various informal economy settings.

Webb earned a Ph.D. in management from Texas A&M University, Mays Business School and an MBA from University of Richmond, Robins School of Business.