Benjamin King, PhD

Welcome to my personal website!

My name is Ben and I am an Assistant Professor at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. I received my PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. 

My research explores non-pecuniary incentives as independent motivators for entering entrepreneurship, employee mobility, and individual and firm-level investments into human capital development.  I use experimental designs, surveys, and a broad range of theoretical perspectives to explore these areas.  

My most recent focus emerges from the EMPS project (Entrepreneurship Mobility Process Survey), which tackles research questions such as: (1) what drives the small firm effect, (2) are employees more likely to disclose or hide business ideas from their employers, and (3) are employees who are bound by many restrictive covenants more or less likely to generate ideas in the first place? 

My research has been supported by the Kauffman Foundation and was a finalist for Best Student Paper at the SMS 2020 Annual Conference, best paper at the SMS 2022 Annual Conference, and I have recently been published at the Strategic Management Journal.