Eduardo Melendez

Eduardo Meléndez is a third-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Tom Love Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development at the University of Oklahoma Michael F. Price School of Business. His research interests include market category creation and civic wealth creation, focusing in particular on the strategies and mechanisms by which entrepreneurial actors collectively create opportunities and influence different types of changes.

Eduardo is originally from Ecuador. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and foreign affairs from The University of Virginia and a Master of Business Administration degree from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. During his 14 years of entrepreneurial and corporate experience, he founded a social venture in the sports sector and a financial service firm and held a C-level executive position in one of Ecuador’s Top 100 business conglomerates.

• M.B.A. IE Business School, 2006.
• B.A. in Economics and Foreign Affairs, The University of Virginia, 2003.

Lumpkin, G. T., Meléndez, E., & Bacq, S. (2023). "Civic Wealth Creation: Bypassing Monopolies Through Collective Action." Academy of Management Perspectives, [doi:10.5465/amp.2022.0105].

Meléndez, E. (2022). "Good Soldiers and Good Generals: Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Startups." Academy of Management Proceedings, [doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2022.42].

Meléndez, E. 2022. Good soldiers and good generals: Organizational citizenship behavior in startups. Academy of Management Proceedings,

• Selected as Best Paper in Entrepreneurship Division. An award given to the top 10 percent of accepted papers.