Entrepreneurship & Strategy

Violetta Gerasymenko

Associate Professor
violetta.gerasymenko@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-6104

Austin Hall

Austin Hall 320

2751 SW Jefferson Way

2751 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331

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College of Business
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Violetta Gerasymenko is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at Oregon State University.  She is also on the Board of Advisors of the Advantage Accelerator at OSU.  She earned her Ph.D. from HEC Paris and holds several other degrees: an MA (with honors) and BA (with honors) in Finance and Banking from Dniepropetrovsk State University (Ukraine), an MA in International Management from EUROMED, Marseille School of Management, and an MA in Economics from University Sorbonne-Pantheon, Paris. 

Before joining the faculty at Oregon State, Violetta held visiting scholar positions at MIT Sloan, New York University and National University of Singapore and an Assistant Professor position at Nova SBE in Portugal. Her research focuses on understanding the boundaries of organizational learning in cognitive forecasting under high uncertainty, the behavioral antecedents and consequences of dynamics of organizational attention, and business model change processes and implications for entrepreneurial ventures. 

Violetta's research work has been published in the Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings and other international journals and book chapters in both English and French.  She currently teaches Entrepreneurship at the College of Business. 

Prior to joining academia, Violetta worked as an analyst in one of the major venture capital firms in Paris, France.  She is regularly invited to be part of start-up competition juries and is a passionate coach of entrepreneurial ventures.

Biography

Dr. Violetta Gerasymenko is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Oregon State University College of Business. She earned her Ph.D. from HEC Paris. Before joining the faculty at Oregon State, Dr. Gerasymenko held visiting scholar positions at MIT Sloan, New York University and National University of Singapore and an Assistant Professor position at Nova SBE in Portugal. Her research work, which focuses on organizational learning and attention dynamics in venture capital firms and entrepreneurial ventures, has been published in the Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings and other international journals and book chapters in both English and French. She currently teaches entrepreneurship at the College of Business. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Gerasymenko worked in one of the major venture capital firms in Paris, France. She is regularly invited to be part of start-up competition juries and is a passionate coach of entrepreneurial ventures.

My Publications

Journal Articles


G. Shirokova Shirokova, Shakina, E., and Gerasymenko, V., “Entrepreneurial orientation as a mediator of ADHD–Performance relationship: A staged quasi-replication study”, Journal of Business Venturing Insights, vol. 17, 2022.

V. Gerasymenko, Arthurs, J., and Cho, S. Yul, “How and When Investment Horizons Determine Venture Capital Firms' Attention Breadth to Portfolio Companies.”, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 475-503, 2020.

V. Gerasymenko, “When do organizations learn from successful experience? The Case of Venture Capital Firms”, International Small Business Journal, pp. 1-23, 2019.

V. Gerasymenko and Eggers, J. P., “The Dynamics of Advice-Giving by Venture Capital Firms: Antecedents of Managerial Cognitive Effort”, Journal of Management, 2017.

V. Gerasymenko, Coff, R., and Durand, R., “Taking a Second Look in a Warped Crystal Ball: Explaining the Accuracy of Revised Forecasts”, Journal of Management Studies, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 1292-1319, 2016.

V. Gerasymenko, De Clercq, D., and Sapienza, H. J., “Changing the Business Model: Effects of Venture Capital Firms and Outside CEOs on Portfolio Company Performance”, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. pages 79-98, 2015.

V. Gerasymenko and Eggers, J. P., “What Makes Venture Capitalists Look Beyond Common Practices? Re-examination Of Organizational Antecedents Through The Behavioral Theory Lens.”, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, vol. 35, no. 1, 2015.

V. Gerasymenko and Arthurs, J., “New insights into venture capitalists' activity: IPO and time-to-exit forecast as antecedents of their post-investment involvement”, Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 29, pp. pages 405-420, 2014.

K. Medjad, Gerasymenko, V., Krieger, E., Grandsart, R., and Iselinm, F., “You said successful? Actual and perceived performance of venture capital in France”, International Journal of Business, vol. 16, no. 2, 2011.

V. Gerasymenko and Arthurs, J., “Venture capitalists' exit strategy: a dynamic capabilities and resource dependence perspective”, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, vol. 30, no. 3, 2010.

Conference Papers


V. Gerasymenko, Cho, S. Yul, Arthurs, J., and Choi, Y., “Re-examining Constraints And Ventures' Learning: The Case Of Business Accelerator Programs”, in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Researcg, 2021.

J. Arthurs and Gerasymenko, V., “Adjusting Attention to Organizational Routines in Response to Time Pressure”, in Academy of Management, 2017, vol. 2017, no. 1, p. 13179.

V. Gerasymenko and Eggers, J. P., “Shifting focus: sources of managerial attention to new activities in the venture capital industry”, in Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 2014.