Entrepreneurship & Strategy IG
Institutional environments influence the effectiveness of entrepreneurial strategies. How should entrepreneurs adopt different strategies at different stages of an institutional change? We tackle this question by examining China’s transition from…
Read MoreIndustry experience is critical for new venture performance, and spinoff entrepreneurs (former employees from the same industry) perform better than other start-ups. However, studies have found that high performers’ mobility…
Read MoreWe examine the effects of founderteams’ firm- and industry prior work experience on startupgrowth in the context of high technology industries. Westudy these effects both on the early growth of…
Read MoreWhile family small and medium enter-prises (SMEs) increasingly involve women in their boards,the role of female directors as catalysts of innovation is yetto be fully understood. Drawing on upper echelons…
Read MoreThe role of founders and founder competences is critical as firms progress along their life cycles, whereby founders face decisions about which tasks deserve their attention and which ones they…
Read MoreIan C. MacMillan, originally from Africa, is a seminal figure in forging the contours of the present-day field of entrepreneurship. He was the first to empirically explore topics such as…
Read MoreLearning from negative outcomes is of fundamental interest to scholars. Yet most research in this area explores learning from actual outcomes. By contrast, we add to the literature by setting…
Read MoreWe study the causes and consequences of the replacement of founder-CEOs in a sample of 4,172 Danish start-ups. We propose that founder-CEO replacement is driven in part by mismatches between…
Read MoreFreemium business models are increasingly prevalent in the digital economy, yet very little is known about how freemium affects consumers’ perceptions of value and their willingness-to-pay. In this article, I…
Read MoreThis study assesses whether founders who write formal plans are more likely to achieve new venture viability. This is important because, despite its popularity, there is considerable debate about the…
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