Selected Articles and Papers
- "Incentives and the Structure of Teams" April M. Franco and Matthew Mitchell and Galina Vereshchagina, Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
- "Who Goes, Where to, and Does It Matter?: Employee Mobility, Entrepreneurship, and the Effects on Source Firm Performance," Benjamin Campbell, Martin Ganco, April Franco, and Rajshree Agarwal, Strategic Management Journal, Forthcoming
- "Decentralized Organizational Learning: An Experimental Investigation" Andreas Blume, John Duffy, and April M. Franco, American Economic Review, 2009
- "Swift and Smart: The Moderating Effects of Technological" MB Sakar, Rajshree Agarwal, Raj Echambadi, and April M. Franco, Management Science, 2009
- "Covenants not to Compete, Labor Mobility, and Industry Dynamics" April M. Franco and Matthew Mitchell, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2008
- "Decentralized Learning from Failure" Andreas Blume and April M. Franco, Journal of Economic Theory, 1, 2007, 504-523
- "Spin-outs: Knowledge Diffusion through Employee Mobility" April M. Franco and Darren Filson, Rand Journal of Economics, 37(4), 2006, 841-60
- "Employment Mobility Laws and Competition" April M. Franco and Matthew F. Mitchell, Journal of Corporation Law, 31(2), 2006, 375-386
- "Employee Entrepreneurship: Recent Research and Future Directions" April M. Franco, Handbook of Entrepreneurship, 2005, 81-96
- "Knowledge Transfer through Inheritance: Spin-out Generation, Growth, and Survival" Rajshree Agarwal, Raj Echambadi, April M Franco, and MB Sarkar, Academy of Management Journal, 47(4), 2004, 501-522
Working Papers
- What do i take with me? the mediating effect of spin-out team size and tenure on the founder-firm performance relationship
Honors / Awards
- 2011 Rector’s Award for the most innovative paper, Aalborg University
- 2011 Second Place, Dingman Entrepreneurship Best Paper Award Competition, University of Maryland
- 2010 Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Research , Rotman School of Management
- 2009 Honorable Mention, Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize, Strategic Management Society
- 2006 Dean’s Teaching Award, Tippie College of Business
- 2005 Best Paper Award, Academy of Management Journal
- 2005-2008 Research Grant for Entrepreneurship and Technological Change, Kaufmann Foundation
- 2001-2002 Award for Beginning Academics, National Science Foundation
- 2000 Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iow