Arthur L. Sherwood

Arthur L. Sherwood

David Cole Professor of Entrepreneurship, College of Business and Economics

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    Art Sherwood is the David Cole Professor of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University.  Dr. Sherwood is also the director of Western’s IDEA Institute (InterDisciplinary Entrepreneurship in Action), an Affiliated Faculty of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis and as well as WWU’s Institute for Energy Studies.  Having completed his graduate work at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a research focus on cooperative alliances, he now seeks to better understand democratic and co-operative entrepreneurship/innovation, governance and leadership.  He is actively engaged in practical academic research related to entrepreneurial and innovative approaches to co-operative strategy including the mergers and strategic alliances in the co-op food sector.  In addition to his academic work, he is an experienced entrepreneur and a member-owner of CDS Consulting Co-op through which he advises and teaches leaders of democratic and co-operative organizations throughout the United States. 

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    • Curriculum Vitae

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    Education/Academic qualification

    Kelley School of Business, Business Policy (Strategy)/International Business, Ph.D., Indiana University - Bloomington

    … → 2002

    Kelley School of Business, Business, M.S., Indiana University - Bloomington

    … → 2000

    Kelley School of Business, Strategy/International Business, MBA, Indiana University - Bloomington

    … → 1997

    School of Business (now Grainger), BBA, University of Wisconsin - Madison

    … → 1991

    External positions

    Affiliated Faculty, Indiana University - Bloomington

    Research Interests

    • Cooperative allances
    • Co-operative entrepreneurship/innovation
    • Co-operative governance and leadership
    • Co-operative strategy

    Disciplines

    • Business
    • International Business
    • Strategic Management Policy