Professor, Economics

Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, Management and Entrepreneurship

PhD in Business Administration, University of Michigan

MBA in Business Administration, Lehigh University

BA in Mathematics, Swarthmore College

geography of entrepreneurship

research methods

business strategy

Best Reviewer Award - Strategic Management Journal, 2022

Kalnins, A. & Praitis Hill, K. (In Press). (2024). Additional caution regarding rules of thumb for variance inflation factors: extending O’Brien to the context of specification error. Quality & Quantity. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-024-01980-0.

Kalnins, A. & Praitis Hill, K. (2025). The VIF score. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Organizational Research Methods. 28 (1) pp. 58-75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10944281231216381.

Williams, M., Ghorbani, M., & Kalnins, A. (2023). Moving to the big city: Temporal, demographic, and geographic influences on the perceptions of gender-related business acumen among male and female migrant entrepreneurs in China. Academy of Management Discoveries. 9 (3) pp. 383-407.

Kalnins, A. (2024). Should moderated regressions include or exclude quadratic terms? Present both! Then apply our linear algebraic analysis to identify the preferable specification. Organizational Research Methods. 27 (1) pp. 29-63.

Kalnins, A. (2022). When Does Multicollinearity Bias Coefficients and Cause Type 1 Errors? A Reconciliation of Lindner, Puck And Verbeke (2020) With Kalnins (2018). Journal of International Business Studies. 53 pp. 1536-1548. DOI: 10.1057/s41267-022-00531-9.

Kalnins, A. & Williams, M. (2021). The Geography of Female Small Business Survivorship: Examining the Roles of Proportional Representation and Stakeholders. Strategic Management Journal. 42 (7) pp. 1247-1274.

Lin, S., Thomas, C., & Kalnins, A. (2021). In-House and Arm's Length: Productivity Heterogeneity and Variation in Organizational Form. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 36 (3) pp. 415-460.

Kalnins, A. (2018). Multicollinearity: How Common Factors Cause Type 1 Errors in Multivariate Regression. Strategic Management Journal. 39 (8) pp. 2362-2385. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2783.

Kalnins, A. & Dowell, G. (2017). Community Characteristics and Changes in Toxic Chemical Releases: Does Information Disclosure Affect Environmental Injustice? Journal of Business Ethics. 145 (2) pp. 277-292.

Kalnins, A. (2017). Pricing Variation within Dual Distribution Chains: The Different Implications of Externalities and Signaling for High and Low Quality Brands. Management Science. 63 (1) pp. 139-152.

"Being Different Yet Feeling Similar: The Effects of Bounded and Unbounded Mega-Threats on the Expression of a Business-Owner Identity Among Underrepresented Demographic Groups," Accepted Speaker at Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, October 2023.

"The VIF Score. What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing," Accepted Speaker at Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, September 2023.

"Being Different Yet Feeling Similar: The Effects of Bounded and Unbounded Mega-Threats on the Expression of a Business-Owner Identity Among Underrepresented Demographic Groups," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2023.

"The VIF Score. What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing," Accepted Speaker at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2023.

"When Should We Test Interaction Hypotheses With Quadratic Terms? When Without Them?," Accepted Speaker at Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom, September 2022.

"Can Mergers Increase Output? Evidence from the Lodging Industry:," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, April 2016.

"Pricing Variation within Dual Distribution Chains: The Different Implications of Externalities and Signaling for High and Low Quality Brands," Guest/Invited Speaker at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2016.

"The More the Merrier: Community level proportional representation of women-owned businesses," Guest/Invited Speaker at Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan, January 2016.

"Can Mergers Increase Output? Evidence from the Lodging Industry:," Guest/Invited Speaker at Columbia University, New York, New York, December 2015.

"Beyond Manhattan: Localized Competition and Organizational Failure in Urban Hotel Markets Throughout the United States, 2000-2014," Guest/Invited Speaker at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, October 2015.