Faculty & Research
Shawn Carraher
Shawn M. Carraher is professor of management and global entrepreneurship, the Virginia Brewczynski Endowed Chair, the Director of the Small Business Institute®, and the Academic Director of the Center for Emerging Technology & Entrepreneurial Studies with Cameron University and received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma. He has more than 100 journal publications, twelve book chapters, 50 proceedings papers, 75 unpublished academic papers and presentations, and one book. He was also the founding director of the International Family Business Center within the Texas A & M University system and has 12 videotapes that have been shown around the world. He has served as a senior specialist with the Fulbright program in Ukraine and Latvia. Shawn has also taught in Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. His research combines family business, entrepreneurship, strategic management, international business, and organizational behavior, examining such issues as cross-cultural differences in why individuals choose to become entrepreneurs, differences in the outcomes of entrepreneurship ventures, teaching entrepreneurship domestically and globally, and improving the service-oriented behaviors of business owners - and he has done primary data collection of entrepreneurship-oriented data in more than 100 countries. Shawn has owned three businesses in the sports equipment, health care, and consulting areas and his students regularly complete 25 to 40 student consulting projects per semester for area businesses. Shawn has held elected positions in the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Small Business Institute, Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management, SouthWest Academy of Management, Southern Management Association, the Association for Entrepreneurship, Family Business, & Franchising, and the Academy of Global Business Advancement. In his free time, Shawn enjoys walking, baking, and data collection.