Oct 21, 2026 · 49 min · 11 segments
Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Dr. Denise Daniels, the Hudson T. Harrison Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship at Wheaton College and co-author of…
Denise DanielsGuestDan DorianiHostMark VroegopHostSo, um, there's also another theme running through your work, and that is collaboration and a sort of a communal approach to things.
And I've co-authored books and, and I've written solo, and co-authoring in some ways is harder, and yet you're, you seem to be committed to that.
What do you, what do you gain from the communal side of writing with somebody? How does that make your, your work more effective, more, um, maybe more palatable? That is to say, you don't have to do it yourself, uh, crank it all out yourself.
It connects to your desire to avoid individualism and work at general, in general, and have a more communal approach.
But let's, let's talk about your desire to do research and writing with a partner.
There's a quick story from 1996, so again, a long time ago, but I was being interviewed for my very first academic job.
And one of my older... who, who became a colleague, but, but one of the older gentlemen on the interview pro- in the interview process, um, was a little critical.
He looking at my, my, um, vita, which is, you know, a fancy academic word for resume, um, and noticing that all of my publications at that point were co-authored.
And he, he was like, "Are you really doing this work? Or is it somebody else that you're, you know, kinda riding on the, on the coattails of?" And I said, "You know, to be honest-
So, um, there's also another theme running through your work, and that is collaboration and a sort of a communal approach to things.
And I've co-authored books and, and I've written solo, and co-authoring in some ways is harder, and yet you're, you seem to be committed to that.
What do you, what do you gain from the communal side of writing with somebody? How does that make your, your work more effective, more, um, maybe more palatable? That is to say, you don't have to do it yourself, uh, crank it all out yourself.
It connects to your desire to avoid individualism and work at general, in general, and have a more communal approach.
But let's, let's talk about your desire to do research and writing with a partner.
There's a quick story from 1996, so again, a long time ago, but I was being interviewed for my very first academic job.
And one of my older... who, who became a colleague, but, but one of the older gentlemen on the interview pro- in the interview process, um, was a little critical.
He looking at my, my, um, vita, which is, you know, a fancy academic word for resume, um, and noticing that all of my publications at that point were co-authored.
And he, he was like, "Are you really doing this work? Or is it somebody else that you're, you know, kinda riding on the, on the coattails of?" And I said, "You know, to be honest-
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