Peter Klein

Peter G. Klein is W. W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He is Director of Baylor’s Entrepreneurship PhD Program and Senior Research Fellow at the Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics, Carl Menger Research Fellow at the Mises Institute, and Research Affiliate at GRANEM.

Klein serves as Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives, and Associate Editor of the Independent Review. His 2012 book Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment (with Nicolai Foss, Cambridge University Press) won the 2014 Foundation for Economic Education Best Book Prize, and his 2010 book The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur (Mises Institute) has been translated into Chinese and Portuguese. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Information Science and Technology.

He received his PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has held faculty positions at the University of Missouri, the Copenhagen Business School, the University of Georgia, and Washington University in St. Louis. He was a Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in 2000-01.

Klein’s research focuses on the links between entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization, with application to innovation, diversification, vertical coordination, health care, and public policy. His work has appeared in Organization Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Managerial and Decision Economics, Strategic Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Sloan Management Review, and other outlets.

His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation, the Mises Institute, the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, and other organizations.