2026
From Matchmakers to Innovation Machines: A Study of Market Generativity in the Bubble.io Ecosystem.
Sarbazvatan, M., & Keyhani, M.•Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Research
Machines, Markets
& Judgment.
A rigorous record of research covering generative AI, entrepreneurial experimentation, strategic entrepreneurship, value capture, and digital marketplaces.
Career recognition
Winner of the 2019 Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Award, the 2014 Kauffman Foundation Promising Paper Award, a 2026 Best Abstract Award, and a 2026 ASAC Information Systems Honourable Mention. Papers were selected for the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings in 2011, 2016, and 2025. Further recognition includes consecutive Haskayne Research Professorships in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from 2016 to 2021, approximately 1,400+ Google Scholar citations, and more than $1 million CAD in grants over the preceding seven years.
See how research questions about judgment and experimentation inform a real venture in the Honeybee Logic case study.
Publications
31 works across 5 formats
2026
2025
2025
Random Experimentation and Exceptional Outcomes in Entrepreneurship.
Keyhani, M., & Jamshidi, Z.•Academy of Management Perspectives
2025
The Generativity Advantage: Unpredicted Innovation at Scale
Keyhani, M.•De Gruyter•De Gruyter
2025
A Foundational Curriculum for Generative AI Literacy.
Keyhani, M.•AI in Education: The Urgency of the Now. Real-world applications, challenges, and lessons for educators. (pp. 34-47)•Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
2025
Fostering AI Literacy: Implementing IBL and Experiential Learning in a Novel Generative AI Course in Higher Education.
Delanoy, N., & Keyhani, M.•Applying Inquiry-Based Learning in Higher Education Across Disciplines. (pp. 74-93)•Cambridge Scholars
2025
Managing Generative Products: Different Rules for Software Innovation.
Keyhani, M. & Sarbazvatan, M.•Building Cloud Software Products: Innovation, Technology and Product Management. (pp. 95-109)•Springer
2025
The Rise of Generative AI: Capabilities and Potential for Higher Education.
Keyhani, M., & Mohaghegh-Neyshabouri, S.•Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education: Ethical, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. (pp. 18-32)•Edward Elgar
2025
The Pedagogical Ethics: Navigating Learning in a Generative AI-Augmented Environment.
Eaton, S. E., & Keyhani, M.•Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education: Ethical, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. (pp. 160-178)•Edward Elgar
2024
2024
Timing and pricing of micro-acquisitions: A Perspective from effort justification theory.
Jamshidi, Z., & Keyhani, M.•Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 22
2024
Team Ventures and Acquisition Exits: Are Team-founded Ventures More Likely to be Acquired.
Soleimani, L., & Keyhani, M.•Entrepreneurship Research Journal, 14(2), 433-456
2023
2023
The Logic of Strategic Entrepreneurship.
Keyhani, M.•Strategic Organization, 21(2), 460-475
2022
2022
Exploration-exploitation and acquisition likelihood in new ventures.
Keyhani, M., Deutsch, Y., Madhok, A., & Lévesque, M.•Small Business Economics, 58, 1475–1496
2022
Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship
Keyhani, M., Kollmann, T., Ashjari, A., Sorgner, A., & Hull, C. E.•Edward Elgar•Edward Elgar
2022
Digital entrepreneurship and capital acquisition in the global economy.
Keyhani, M., Robinson, M., Lehar, A., & Ashjari, A.•Digital Entrepreneurship and the Global Economy (pp. 91-101)•Routledge
2022
Startup Stacks: Understanding the Landscape of Entrepreneurship Technology.
Keyhani, M.•Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship (pp. 140-160)•Edward Elgar
2022
An Introduction to Digital Entrepreneurship: Concepts and Themes.
Keyhani, M., Ashjari, A., Sorgner, A., Kollmann, T., Hull, C. E., & Jamshidi, Z.•Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship (pp. 2-25)•Edward Elgar
2021
2021
An Ensemble Learning Approach to Digital Corona Virus Preliminary Screening from Cough Sounds.
Mohammed, E.A., Keyhani, M., Sanati-Nezhad, A., Far, B.H., & Hejazi, H.•Nature: Scientific Reports, 11
2021
Interview with Mohammad Keyhani on the Logic of Strategic Entrepreneurship.
Keyhani, M., & Hastings, H.•Available at SSRN 3984747
2021
Implications of Generativity for Entrepreneurship and Strategy.
Keyhani, M., & Hastings, H.•ERENET Profile, 16(1), 3-12
2020
2020
Crowdfunding Canadian theatre: An exploratory analysis of Kickstarter data with US comparison.
Keyhani, M., Mohaghegh Neyshabouri, S., & Hosseini Amereii, A.•Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 9(1), 99-130
2019
2019
A theory of digital firm-designed markets: Defying knowledge constraints with crowds and marketplaces.
Tajedin, H., Madhok, A., & Keyhani, M.•Strategy Science, 4(4), 323-342
2019
Computational modeling of entrepreneurship grounded in Austrian economics: Insights for strategic entrepreneurship and the opportunity debate.
Keyhani, M.•Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 13(2), 221-240
2018
2018
Internationalize to live: A study of the post-internationalization survival of new ventures.
Fariborzi, H., & Keyhani, M.•Small Business Economics, 50(3), 607-624
2016
2016
The equilibrating and disequilibrating effects of entrepreneurship: Revisiting the central premises.
Keyhani, M., & Lévesque, M.•Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 10(1), 65-88
2016
Computer simulation studies of the entrepreneurial market process.
Keyhani, M.•Complexity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology Research: Applications of Emergent and Neglected Methods (pp. 117-137)•Springer
2016
Resource transformation through alliances: The resource-based and relational rents dilemma and implications for the evolution of firm boundaries.
Madhok, A., Keyhani, M., Bossink, B., & Vlaar, P.•Governance Issues in Strategic Alliances (pp. 131-150)•Information Age Publishing
2016
Disentangling the effect of uncertainty types on alliance governance choice.
Mellewigt, T., Madhok, A., Weller, I., Keyhani, M., & König, F.•Governance Issues in Strategic Alliances (pp. 1-33)•Information Age Publishing
2015
2015
Understanding alliance evolution and termination: Adjustment costs and the economics of resource value.
Madhok, A., Keyhani, M., Bossink, B.•Strategic Organization, 13(2), 91-116
2015
Towards a theory of entrepreneurial rents: A simulation of the market process.
Keyhani, M., Lévesque, M., & Madhok, A.•Strategic Management Journal, 36(1), 76-96
2012
2012
Acquisitions as entrepreneurship: asymmetries, opportunities, and the internationalization of multinationals from emerging economies.
Madhok, A., & Keyhani, M.•Global Strategy Journal, 2(1), 26-40
2008
2008
Islam-Friendly Entrepreneurship: The Case of Iran.
Keyhani, M., & Moghadam, S. J.•ERENET Profile, 3(4), 34-44