Hi there! I’m Per Bylund, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. My research focuses on issues in entrepreneurship, strategic management, and organizational economics – especially where they overlap and intersect with each other and/or regulation/policy.

I am a Fellow with the Mises Institute in Auburn, AL, and an associate fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

My research aims to explain the market process of prosperity-creation and economic development with a focus on organizations, institutions, entrepreneurship and management. I have several papers and a book on the theory of the firm, especially targeting and attempting to illuminate the economic function of the firm – both to the entrepreneur and as a means to explain the evolution of market structure. My research has been published in several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Managerial and Decision Economics, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought,.

I have authored two books, both published in 2016: The Problem of Production: A New Theory of the Firm (Routledge) on the economic theory of organization and the firm; and The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives (Lexington) that provides the reader with an introduction to economic reasoning to understand the market and regulation.

I also co-edited The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno (Mises Institute, 2015) with David Howden. More information on these books is available on the Books page.

I am the editor or a book series on Austrian economics published by Agenda Publishing.

I serve as an associate editor for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, and serve on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, the Journal of Management Studies, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and the Molinari Review, and am a consulting editor for Cosmos+Taxis.

I regularly write columns for The Entrepreneur magazine; they are available to read at entrepreneur.com here. For a list of all my published columns, please see my Columns page.

Follow me on Twitter at @PerBylund.