Dr Anna Jenkins

Senior Lecturer

School of Business
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Overview

Areas of expertise:

  • The processes activities involved in creating high impact startups
  • The development and evolution of startup ecosystems
  • The impact firm failure has on small business owners’ well-being including their financial, and emotional well-being and how they respond to and cope with firm failure

Dr Anna Jenkins studies the startup process, the activities and processes which entrepreneurs engage in to explain why some startups emerge successful and growing and others either stagnate or fail. She currently holds an ARC Discovery grant for this project where she is leading a project following the development and trajectories of startups for over four years. She is also leading a research project on the development of startup ecosystems where the research team is conducting a longitudinal ethnographic study on how startup ecosystems emerge.

Her other area of expertise on how small business owners manage setbacks and failure. Her research focuses on how small business owners respond to failure, how they reduce the impact failure can have on their well-being, and the effectiveness of different coping strategies for their well-being and future employment. She was been awarded a number of prestigious research grants for this work including funding from The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council and Swedbank.

She is familiar with a variety of research methods having conducted large scale longitudinal quantitative studies and narrative interviews with small business owners who have failed. As well as ethnographic field work and experiments.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Hogskolan i Jonkoping

Publications

  • Oyola-Lozada, Maria Giuliana, Pregelj, Lisette, Jenkins, Anna, Siegel, Evan, Munro, Trent and Hine, Damian (2024). Anticipatory regulation for pandemic responses: are we there yet?. Trends in Biotechnology. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2024.02.016

  • Jenkins, Anna, Achtenhagen, Leona and Hellerstedt, Karin (2023). Back to work? How employers perceive applicants’ experience of entrepreneurial failure. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 36 (5-6), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/08985626.2023.2277791

  • Oyola Lozada, Giuliana, Jenkins, Anna, Pregelj, Lisette and MacAulay, Sam (2022). Interviews. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/4ef737d

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Thompson, Neil Aaron, Byrne, Orla, Jenkins, Anna and Teague, Bruce T. (2022). Introduction to the Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice. Research handbook on entrepreneurship as practice. (pp. 1-19) edited by Neil Aaron Thompson, Orla Byrne, Anna Jenkins and Bruce T. Teague. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788976831.00006

  • Jenkins, Anna and Byrne, Orla (2021). Entrepreneurial failure and exit. The psychology of entrepreneurship: new perspectives. (pp. 244-262) edited by Michael M. Gielnik, Melissa S. Cardon and Michael Frese. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003137573-14

  • Jenkins, Anna, Steen, John and Verreynne, Martie-Louise (2015). Entrepreneurial exit: who, what or to where? Regional relocation as a form of exit. Research Handbook of Entrepreneurial Exit. (pp. 246-264) edited by Dawn R. DeTienne and Karl Wennberg. Northampton, MA United States: Edward Elgar. doi: 10.4337/9781782546979

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • Langham, Jo’Anne, Lin, Caihui, Jenkins, Anna, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Mikolajewska-Zajac, Karolina and Paulsen, Neil (2022). Gender bias in idea generation and the evaluation of creative ideas: an online behavioural experiment. 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ECIE 2022, Pafos, Cyprus, 15-16 September 2022. Reading, United Kingdom: Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.

  • Kho, Joanna, Jenkins, Anna and Spee, Paul (2021). Routine emergence, selection and persistence: How entrepreneurs manage their business models in dynamic environments. 37th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-10 July 2021.

  • Spee, Paul, Kho, Joanna and Jenkins, Anna (2021). Forming new routines. 37th European Group for Organizational Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8-10 July 2021.

  • Angel, Pablo, Jenkins, Anna and Stephens, Anna M. (2016). Understanding the meaning of entrepreneurial success. ACERE, Gold Coast, Australia, 2 – 5 February 2016.

  • Jenkins, Anna and Wiklund, Johan (2012). A risky decision on an informed choice: Re-entry after firm failure. 32nd Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, June 2012. Babson Park, MA United States: Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.

  • Jenkins, Anna S., Brundin, Ethel and Wiklund, Johan (2010). Grief or relief? Emotional repsonses to firm failure. Babson College Entrepreneurial Research Conference 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2010. Babson Park, MA, United States: Babson College, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship.

Other Outputs

  • Oyola Lozada, Giuliana, Jenkins, Anna, Pregelj, Lisette and MacAulay, Sam (2022). Interviews. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/4ef737d

  • Jenkins, Anna and Spee, Paul (2022). Reaching crunch time: fight or fold. London, ON, Canada: Ivey Publishing.

  • Steen, John, Verreynne, Martie-Louise and Jenkins, Anna (2014). Growing business in Redlands: technical report. Brisbane, Australia:

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

Completed Supervision