Kimberly Ann Eddleston is the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship,^[1] and Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.^[2][3] Her expertise on subjects related to family business management and small business management is quoted in US sources.^[4][5][6] She has received many academic awards by US institutions and is a leading editor of several academic journals.

Eddleston's education leaned towards business studies driven by family ties.^[7] She obtained a BS in Business Administration from Bryant University (Smithfield, RI) in 1992.^[2] She gained an MS in Hotel Administration from Institut de Management Hotelier International, Cornell University/Groupe ESSEC in 1995.^[3] She obtained a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut in 2001.^[8]

Eddleston worked as an assistant director at Westin Hotel Copley Place, Boston, MA (1995-1996). She was an Assistant Director of the Wolff Family Program in Entrepreneurship, at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT.) from 1996 to 2001. At this university she was a Lecturer of Management at the School of Business Administration from 2000 to 2001. In 2001, she began a teaching and research career at her current institution, the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University (Boston), where she successively became an Assistant Professor (since 2001), Associate Professor (since 2008), and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation since 2014.^[2][3]

She is a Montoni Research Fellow, and a Faculty Fellow at Cornell University’s Smith Family Business Initiative.^[2] Additionally, she has held appointments as a Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen Center for Family Business,^[9] Toft Professor in Family Business at Jönköping International Business School (2013 – 2015),^[9] Visiting Scholar at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2018),^[10] and Visiting Scholar in Small Business at Florida Atlantic University, (2018 – 2019).^[11]

She is the founding editor, and Editor in Chief of familybusiness.org, ^[12][13] and a Senior Editor of the Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (eix.org).^[14] Also, she is or has been an editor of other academic journals including Organizational Dynamics,^[15] Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice,^[16] Journal of Family Business Strategy,^[17] Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,^[18] Small Business Economics,^[19] Asia Pacific Journal of Management,^[20] Long Range Planning,^[21] Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal,^[22] and Journal of Business Venturing.^[3]

In 2012, Eddleston received the Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar Award in 2012 from the University of North Texas.^[23] In 2006 and 2015 she received Family Owned Business Institute Scholar Award from Grand Valley State University.^[24] In 2015, she received the Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship.^[1]

Her research received awards from learned societies, among them the Academy of Management (2002),^[25] the Family Firm Institute (2010, 2018),^[26] the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA),^[27] and the US Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, USASBE (2015, 2017).^{[28][29][30][31]}

Eddleston has published over 160 papers, which have been cited over 15,000 times, according to Google Scholar.^[32] Her most cited papers are:

• Martins, Luis L.; Eddleston, Kimberly A.; Veiga, John F. (2002-04-01). "Moderators of the Relationship Between Work-Family Conflict and Career Satisfaction". Academy of Management Journal. 45 (2): 399–409. doi:10.5465/3069354. ISSN 0001-4273
• Kellermanns, Franz W.; Eddleston, Kimberly A. (2004-05-01). "Feuding Families: When Conflict Does a Family Firm Good". Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 28 (3): 209–228. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2004.00040.x. ISSN 1042-2587
• Eddleston, Kimberly A.; Kellermanns, Franz W. (2007-07-01). "Destructive and productive family relationships: A stewardship theory perspective". Journal of Business Venturing. 22 (4): 545–565. doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2006.06.004. ISSN 0883-9026
• Zellweger, Thomas M.; Eddleston, Kimberly A.; Kellermanns, Franz W. (2010-03-01). "Exploring the concept of familiness: Introducing family firm identity". Journal of Family Business Strategy. 1 (1): 54–63. doi:10.1016/j.jfbs.2009.12.003. ISSN 1877-8585

Jennings, J.E., Eddleston, K.A., Jennings, P.D. & Sarathy, R. 2015. Firms Within Families: Enterprising in Diverse Country Contexts. Edward Elgar Publishing.^[33]

• Kimberly Eddleston publications indexed by Google Scholar