Collaboration Inside the Firm

2019 ◽  
pp. 680-704
Author(s):  
Elena Kulchina
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Early Years ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Start Ups

Founding and operating a firm is a collaborative process, but still little is known about the nature of collaboration between entrepreneurs and other members of the new-venture team, particularly key employees. For example, traditional entrepreneurship literature believed that founders always run their start-ups personally, at least in the early years of operation. However, recent empirical studies suggest that a significant share of founders hire CEOs for their start-ups at the time of founding or soon thereafter. This chapter explores what motivates founders to delegate managerial control to a hired agent, how founders choose their managers, and how they govern relationships with their CEOs.

scholarly journals The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 797-826
Author(s):  
Guoqian Xi ◽  
Jörn Block ◽  
Frank Lasch ◽  
Frank Robert ◽  
Roy Thurik
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Survival Rate ◽  
Firm Survival ◽  
Organizational Ecology ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Entry Modes ◽  
Survival Patterns ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Business takeovers and new venture start-ups are two important and distinct entry modes of entrepreneurship. They differ from resource-based and organizational ecology perspectives. We compare firm survival patterns and determinants associated with the two entry modes. From two large French datasets, we find that business takeovers have a higher survival rate than new venture start-ups. However, these differences in survival probability reduce over the entrepreneurship life cycle and when controlling for different entrepreneur and firm characteristics. Moreover, we identify differences in determinants of survival for the two groups, highlighting a distinction between the two entrepreneurship entry modes. This work contributes to the literature on the relationship between entrepreneurship entry and firm survival, thereby contributing to both entrepreneurship and firm survival research.

scholarly journals Innovation and value in pre-commercial procurement

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Brogaard
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Commitment

Governments increasingly use novel forms of public procurement to stimulate innovation in public service delivery. A notable example is pre-commercial procurement. Launched by the European Commission a decade ago, pre-commercial procurement encourages research and development of new solutions for the public sector. However, limited theoretical and empirical studies have made it difficult to assess and improve use of the model to foster public innovation. Based on two pre-commercial procurement projects in Denmark, the article aims to complete the first systematic and theory-based evaluation of national experiences. The evaluation shows that sufficient resources, participant and management commitment, and focused management of the collaborative process contributed to successful development and testing of a new solution in one of the projects. Meanwhile, technical obstacles in developing a prototype resulted in termination of the other project. In this case, the pre-commercial procurement model cannot accommodate significant changes to the agreed solution during the innovation process.

Die deutsche Gründerlandschaft im Energiesektor und ressourcenbedingte Voraussetzungen für eine Gründungsfinanzierung eines Energie-Startups

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 169-189
Author(s):  
Theresa Fritz ◽  
Wolfgang Burr
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Utility Models ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Technological Capital ◽  
Start Ups

Zusammenfassung Empirische Untersuchungen zur Gründungslandschaft der deutschen Energiewirtschaft sind in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur bisher unterrepräsentiert. Im Zuge einer explorativen Darstellung von deutschen Energie-Startups wird zu Beginn ein Überblick über die Gründungsbereiche, die Gründungsteams sowie die finanzielle Lage von 126 deutschen Energie-Startups gegeben. Mithilfe einer Regressionsanalyse werden im nächsten Schritt die Einflüsse von Humankapital und technologischen Ressourcen auf die Akquise von Finanzierungsmitteln überprüft. Im Rahmen der Auswertung kann ein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen der Anzahl der Gründer, den individuellen Fähigkeiten der Teammitglieder sowie der Anzahl der Patente und Gebrauchsmuster auf die Akquise von Finanzierungsmitteln nachgewiesen werden. Dies legt den Schluss nahe, dass die Kombination der beiden Ressourcen Humankapital und technologisches Kapital den Aufbau von Kompetenz bei der Finanzierungsmittelakquise auf organisationaler Ebene begünstigen und zum Wachstum des Startups beitragen können. Abstract Empirical studies on the start-up landscape of the German energy industry have so far been underrepresented in the scientific literature. In the course of an exploratory presentation of German energy start-ups, an overview of the start-up areas, the founding teams and the financial situation of 126 German energy start-ups is given at the beginning. In the next step, a regression analysis is used to examine the influence of human capital and technological resources on the acquisition of funding. As part of the evaluation, a significant relationship between the number of founders, the individual skills of the team members and the number of patents and utility models on the acquisition of funding can be demonstrated. This suggests that the combination of the two resources human capital and technological capital can facilitate the development of skills in the acquisition of funding at the organizational level and contribute to the growth of the start-up.

scholarly journals European automotive technological innovation systems in the age of disruption: The suppliers’ view

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Ana Hafner ◽  
Dolores Modic
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Electric Cars ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Original Equipment Manufacturers ◽  
Method Approach

Abstract Although empirical studies show that suppliers’ innovativeness enhances original equipment manufacturers’ (OEM) total innovation performance, some evidence reveals that suppliers’ innovation affects OEM in quantitatively and qualitatively limited ways. This study aims to explore innovation systems of European automobile producers, i.e., OEM. Technological innovation systems (TIS) remain relatively underexplored, but the approach is especially valuable for explaining why and how sustainable and circular innovation develop and spread. We applied a mixed-method approach and conducted patent analyses and interviews with 20 respondents from Slovenia, Austria, and Hungary, which are representatives of suppliers for the automotive industry and automotive clusters. We confirm that the European OEMs build innovation ecosystems that are more closed than their Asian counterparts. Furthermore, we define three paths of how inventions of suppliers can reach the OEMs, with developmental suppliers (large companies) having the highest probability of influencing the innovation activity of OEMs. The entry of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and start-ups with their inventions is difficult. However, it is not impossible, especially if they develop new solutions connected to current disruptive trends in the automotive industry: electric cars, autonomous driving and digitalisation.

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, START-UPS, AND PRODUCTIVITY DURING TRANSITION

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (S2) ◽  
pp. 213-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Brixiová ◽  
Balázs Égert
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
State Sector ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
Productivity Gap

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and Baltic countries, which opted for fast and deep reforms including transformation of their business environments, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which embarked on reforms later and with less depth, the productivity gap remains large. Whereas the literature has focused mainly on empirical studies, this paper develops a dynamic search model of firm start-ups that reflects these trends. The model shows that an enabling business climate contributes to start-ups of highly productive firms at an earlier stage of transition, underscoring the importance of early reforms. The role of the state sector as an employer during transition rises in countries where reforming the business environment is particularly costly.

New venture start‐ups and technological innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Blazenko ◽  
Andrey D. Pavlov ◽  
Freda Eddy‐Sumeke
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Start Ups

scholarly journals Teams in new ventures: gender, human capital and motivation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Cerqueti ◽  
Caterina Lucarelli ◽  
Nicoletta Marinelli ◽  
Alessandra Micozzi
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
Personal Motivation ◽  
Start Ups

Purpose This paper aims to dismantle the idea that sex per se explains entrepreneurial outcomes and demonstrates the influence of a gendered motivation on forging and shaping new venture teams, which is a disruptive choice affecting the future of start-ups. Design/methodology/approach A two-level research model is validated on data from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics II (PSED II), with a system of simultaneous equations. First, if team features affect the performance of new ventures is tested; then, the study investigates determinants of team features with a focus on sex and motivation of nascent entrepreneurs. Findings Human capital (HC) in terms of education and experience of team members consistently explains venture evolution only when considering the larger team of affiliates. The HC gathered by nascent entrepreneurs is not because of the simplistic sex condition, but rather to a gendered motivation related to the inferior need of achievement of women. Research limitations/implications Limitations of discretionary scoring assigned to items of the PSED II survey are present, but unavoidable when processing qualitative data. Practical implications Women need to be (culturally) educated on how to re-balance their personal motivation towards entrepreneurship by fostering their incentives for achievement. Political and educational programmes could trigger success in the creation of new businesses led by women. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature on nascent entrepreneurship, focusing on the entrepreneurial teams in the initial phase of business creation, and provides the basis for further studies aimed at eradicating the stereotypes of gender roles that lead women to self-exclusion and organizational errors.

Internalization theory, entrepreneurship and international new ventures

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Verbeke ◽  
M. Amin Zargarzadeh ◽  
Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sections ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Early Years ◽  
New Venture ◽  
International New Ventures ◽  
Internalization Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Individual

Purpose – The aim of the article is to establish robust linkages between internalization theory and the empirical phenomenon of international new ventures (INVs). Here, the focus is on firm-specific advantages (FSAs) critical to early new venture internationalization. Design/methodology/approach – On the conceptual level, we explain how the INV literature can easily be accommodated using an internalization theory lens, and we formulate hypotheses to that effect. On the empirical level, we use the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) dataset, which includes a panel of 4,928 US-based new businesses founded in 2004, tracked over their early years of operations. We use logistic regressions building upon pooled cross-sections, and including lagged dependent variables. Findings – INV-type foreign expansion is a special case of international growth, easily and credibly predicted by internalization. No new theory beyond internalization theory is needed to explain this phenomenon. Originality/value – The early stages of the Uppsala model, in terms of requisite resources accumulation and recombination, may have been undertaken at the individual level, by founding entrepreneurs, in the pre-stage of the new venture, and are “invisible” when focusing on organizational experience built up in the new venture. Here, particular founding entrepreneurs’ characteristics function as FSAs.

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