Professorial Faculty
Technical University of Munich

Prof. Siddharth Vedula

Professorship

Entrepreneurship & Communities

School

TUM School of Management

Contact Details

Business card at TUMonline

Academic Career and Research Areas

Prof. Vedula's research focuses on how entrepreneurs interact with communities to address environmental degradation natural. He has investigated several topics such as regional differences in the adoption of green building practices, ideological differences in renewable energy entrepreneurship, and the competitive dynamics between startups and incumbents entering "green markets".

Prof. Vedula completed his Bachelors degree in Physiology and Mathematics from the University of Toronto. He subsequently obtained a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in Strategic, Organizational, and Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. He then worked as an assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. Since November 2020, Prof. Vedula was appointed to the professorship for Entrepreneurship and Communities at TUM.

Awards

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (sNSF) grant (2024-2026): Unleashing Civic Wealth Creation Through Community Entrepreneurship (co-authored with Christina Hertel (PI), Sophie Bacq, Rossella Rocchino, and Tom Lumpkin)
  • TUM School of Management Best Teacher Award (2023) and Best PhD Supervisor Award (2022) 
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant (2020-2025): Animating Necessity-Based Entrepreneurship (co-authored with Robert Nason (PI), Joel Bothello, Sophie Bacq,and Andrew Charman)

Key Publications

Nason, S., Vedula, S., Bothello, J., Bacq, S., Charman, A. 2024. Sight Unseen: The Visibility Paradox of Entrepreneurship in an Informal Economy. Journal of Business Venturing, 39(2): 106364.

Abstract

Vedula, S., Doblinger, C., Pacheco, D., York, G.J., Bacq, S., Russo, M., Dean, T. 2022. Entrepreneurship for the Public Good. A review, critique, and path forward for social and environmental entrepreneurship research. Academy of Management Annals, 16(1): 391-425.

Abstract

Vedula, S.*, York, G.J.*, Conger, M., Embry, E. 2022. Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Exit in Moral Markets. Organization Science, 33(6): 2274-2299.
*York, G.J. and Vedula, S contributed equally to this work.

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Vedula, S., Kim, P.H. 2019. Gimme Shelter or Fade Away: The Impact of Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Quality on Startup Survival. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(4): 827-854.

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York, G. J.*, Vedula, S.*, Lenox, M. 2018. It's Not Easy Building Green: The Impact of Public Policy, Private Actors, and Regional Logics on Voluntary Standards Adoption, Academy of Management Journal, 61(4): 1492-1523.
*York, G.J. and Vedula, S contributed equally to this work.

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