Management professor elected president of small business organization

Press Release Date: 11-17-2011

DURANT, Okla. – Dr. Martin Bressler, Associate Professor of Management in the John Massey School of Business at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, was recently elected President of the Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ASBE) at the annual meeting in Savannah, Georgia.

The purpose of ASBE is to provide an active vehicle for strengthening the small business sector of the free enterprise system through increasing the effectiveness and impact of small business teaching and consultation in colleges and universities, particularly relating to the operation of the Small Business Institute program.

In addition, ASBE strives to provide a means for the exchange of information and guidance concerning teaching, research, extension, and other activities designed to aid small business and enhance the relationship and cooperation between faculty with Small Business Institutes and other organizations that are a part of the small business community.

ASBE first began in 1974 and has been affiliated with other academic organizations, most recently, the Federation of Business Disciplines. In 2003, ASBE broke off from the Federation and began meeting on their own. Since 1989, ASBE has published The Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship.

Bressler has an extensive background in small business and entrepreneurship. In addition to teaching, researching and writing in the field for more than twenty-five years, he served as Director of an award-winning Small Business Institute program, authored an award-winning newspaper column titled “The Small Business Adviser” for more than three years, and served as a Resource Panel Expert to the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business.

Bressler, who joined the Southeastern faculty in 2010, is also a Fulbright Scholar and Sam Walton fellow.