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Founding Manifesto · Undeterred Press

Release the Krakens

Undeterred Press

A quarter million doctoral dissertations shackled every year, most never read past their own defense — and the origin story of a press built to release them.

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Essay · Practitioner Scholarship

Unleashing the Hidden Goldmine of Practitioner Insight

Kevin A. Schulte, Founder and Editor, Undeterred Press

An argument that practitioner research is a hidden goldmine, rich in clarity, lived experience, emotional truth, and real-world rigor, and deserving of full visibility within the scholarly ecosystem.

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Issue 1 · Founding Article · Economics & Public Policy

Ten Years Hence: Business Angel Tax Credits, the Absent Employment Lift, and a Decade of Convergent Evidence

Kevin A. Schulte, Ph.D.

A null finding on angel investor tax credits and employment, produced in a 2016 doctoral dissertation and independently confirmed by the Journal of Finance in 2023 through a different dataset and methodology.

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Founding Editorial · Volume 1, Number 1

The New Press: Artificial Intelligence, the Democratization of Scholarly Knowledge, and the Founding of This Journal

Kevin A. Schulte, Ph.D.

Why Undeterred Press exists: the case for editor- and domain-expert review, open to practitioners without an academic gate, with every article's AI involvement disclosed plainly.

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White Paper · Small-Business Public Policy
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Rethinking Dissertation Rigor in Small-Business Public Policy

Kevin A. Schulte

A review of dissertations in small-business public policy finds them clear, disciplined, and directly useful to practitioners — and finds that no comparative study has ever tested whether institutional prestige predicts dissertation rigor.

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