ENTREPRENEURIAL TEAMS IN NEW VENTURES: COMPOSITION, TURNOVER AND PERFORMANCE.

Despite the continuous interest in studying entrepreneurial teams, the relationship between team composition and, particularly, team diversity and performance remains fertile ground for active debate. Taking roots in the knowledge-based view and organizational learning literatures, this chapter argues that performance in entrepreneurial teams is contingent on (a) the overlap between team members’ knowledge/competences and the content of the performed tasks, (b) the duplication of the team members’ knowledge in the areas with that content, (c) the nature of tasks (exploration or exploitation), (d) the team’s flexibility to adapt to changes in the content and nature of those tasks, and (e) the rate of environmental change. Because an important source of ambiguity in the understanding of how team diversity and performance are linked ties to issues of how team diversity is conceptualized and operationalized, the chapter also proposes a new way of looking at diversity in future research.

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ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND EXTERNAL TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION: AN EMPIRICAL TEST ON PERFORMANCE OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED NEW VENTURES

Journal of Business Economics and Management ◽

10.3846/16111699.2013.770786 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 544-561 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Li Cai ◽

Qing Liu ◽

Shengliang Deng ◽

Dan Cao

Keyword(s):

Emerging Economies ◽

Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽

Empirical Test ◽

New Ventures ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

Complex Relationship ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Technology Acquisition ◽

And Performance ◽

The Relationship

This research investigates the effects of entrepreneurial orientation and external technology acquisition on the performance of technology-based new ventures in the context of a transitional economy. An analysis of the cross-sectional data from 123 Chinese technology-based new ventures was conducted. The results of the analysis support the contention that both the acquisition of external technology and entrepreneurial orientation improve new ventures’ performance. Additionally, the interaction of entrepreneurial orientation and external technology acquisition positively moderates the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and performance of technology-based new ventures. Overall, this study contributes to our enhanced understanding of the complex relationship among entrepreneurial orientation, external technology acquisition and firm performance under transitional economic conditions. Firms from emerging economies, especially technologybased new ventures, may find the study findings useful in guiding their decision on external technology acquisition.

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Cultural values, entrepreneurial team structure and performance of SMEs

International Journal of Emerging Markets ◽

10.1108/ijoem-06-2019-0459 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mohammad Bashokuh-E-Ajirloo ◽

Bahman Khodapanah ◽

Mehdi Alizadeh ◽

Mehdi Ebrahimzadeh

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Team Performance ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Content Type ◽

Team Members ◽

Team Structure ◽

Entrepreneurial Teams ◽

Reliability Indicator ◽

Entrepreneurial Team ◽

And Performance

PurposeThe main objective of this study is to explain the relationship between members' cultural values on structure and performance of the entrepreneurial teams that located in Tehran.Design/methodology/approachData used in this study are collected by a questionnaire distributed among managers and other executive members of SMEs located in Tehran. One hundred and thirty-nine participants completed the questionnaires, and their responses were analyzed using partial least squares technique. Measures showed good convergent and discriminant validity. Furthermore, Cronbach's alpha, as reliability indicator for all measures, is at the acceptable level.FindingsResearch finding shows that all hypothesis supported in Iran contex. Entrepreneurial team members' cultural values have positive and significant effect on the entrepreneurial team structure. Entrepreneurial team members' cultural values have significant effect on the entrepreneurial team performance and also, the structure of the entrepreneurial team has a positive and significant effect on the entrepreneurial team performance.Originality/valueThese studies mostly focused on technical dimensions of entrepreneurial teams and overlooked the cultural values of their members.

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