Entrepreneurship & Strategy IG

Entrepreneurial Strategies During Institutional Changes

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…

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High-Performer Mobility to Entrepreneurship and Parent-Firm Performance

Industry 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…

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Startup Founder Prior Work Experience – an Asset or a Liability?

We 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…

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Are Family Female Directors Catalysts of Innovation in Family Small and Medium Enterprises?

While 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…

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Founder–inventors and their investors: Spurring firm survival and growth

The 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…

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Rita McGrath discusses Ian MacMillan

Ian 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…

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Chris Bingham & Steve Kahl – Anticipatory Learning

Learning 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…

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Chen and Thompson on the replacement of founder CEOs

We 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…

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Creating and Capturing Value From Freemium Business Models

Freemium 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…

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Are Formal Planners More Likely To Achieve New Venture Viability?

This 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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