Sola Lawal

Campus

• Bloomington

Education

• PhD Entrepreneurship, Indiana University, 2013
• B. Sc. Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007

Professional Experience

• Instructor of Senior-level Strategy Class at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 2010 - Present
• Production Engineer at Dow Chemical, Texas City, TX 2008-2009
• Reliability Engineer at Dow Chemical, Texas City, TX 2007-2009
• Engineering Research Assistant in the Martin Group, Troy, NY 2005-2007
• Co-founder & Consultant, So True, LLC Houston, TX 2006-2007

Professional Interests

Corporate Venturing, eLancing & its effects on Staffing, Strategic Social Responsibility.

Personal Interests

Reading for personal enjoyment, Eating, Psychology & Motivation, Making the world a better place.

Current Projects

• Corporate Venturing & Human Resources
• eLancing as a Methodological Tool
• Corporate Social Responsibility & Institutional Pressures

Background

Sola Lawal is a 2nd Year Doctoral Student of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. He is currently working on research in three different streams. The first research stream deals with corporate venturing in large organizations and the role of human resource practices that allow such venturing to occur and flourish. Second, he is working to inform the academic community about eLancing, or Internet freelancing, and the effects it can have on both practitioners and academics. Finally, he is working on strategic social responsibility, a term he has coined to discuss how large organizations are moving from a strictly philanthropic model to one in which traditional venturing activities are being adapted to help with corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. He has presented at Academy of Management (AOM 2010) and the Diversity Education Forum. He has also published a paper on eLancing in Human Resource Management (in press).

Selected Publications

• Aguinis, H. and S. O. Lawal (in press), "eLancing: A review and research agenda for bridging the science-practice gap," Human Resource Management Review.