Innovation
We examine one prevalent source of conflict: platform owners’ entry into complementary product spaces. We show that app developers on Google’s Android system are strategic and nimble actors. They respond…
Read More about Threat of platformowner entry and complementor responses: Evidence from the mobile app marketFirms in innovation-driven industries cooperate to develop interoperability standards and compatible technologies. Yet, cooperative firms may disagree about what constitutes fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms for licensing intellectual property. Thus,…
Read More about The Evolution of Cooperation in the Face of ConflictHow do multinational enterprises (MNEs) transfer knowledge over space between clusters and between other locations? To explore this question, we construct a typology of four MNE knowledge strategies (replicating, scouting,…
Read More about Headquarters‐Subsidiary Knowledge Strategies at the Cluster LevelLean startup methodology has rapidly become one of the most common and trusted innovation and entrepreneurship methods by corporations, startup accelerators, and policymakers. Unfortunately, it has largely been portrayed as…
Read More about The Lean Startup MethodWe 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 More about Chen and Thompson on the replacement of founder CEOsEntrepreneurial ventures are a key source of innovation. Nowadays, ventures are backed by a wide array of investors whose complementary asset profiles differ significantly. We therefore assert that entrepreneurial ventures…
Read More about Alvarez-Garrido and Dushnitsky: Investor complementary assetsThe 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 More about Founder–inventors and their investors: Spurring firm survival and growthHas the entrepreneurial journey remained unchanged over the past decades? And if there have been substantive changes, what are they? And what are their implications? These are critical questions that…
Read More about A fresh look at patterns and assumptions in the field of entrepreneurship