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Entrepreneurship and new organizations

Founding and early development of new organizations.

Of its 155 readings, 26 are assigned in two or more sources and listed first, with the number of sources beside each (in bold for the core readings, in 4 or more); the 129 listed in only one source are folded under each heading.

In the theory tree: grows out of 5 Organizational ecology and demography.

Drawn from: Amit (Wharton); Zuckerman (MIT); Maoret (IESE); Lounsbury & Zhao (Oxford Bibliographies); Lu, Li, Park, Yang & Yan (CityU); Clough (UBC); Pollock (Tennessee); Yue (USC); Levinthal (Wharton); Marquis (HBS); DiMaggio (Princeton); Jia (USC); Dobbin (Harvard). Full details of the sources are on the reading lists page.

By decade

Before 1950: 2 readings<19501950s: 1 reading1950s1960s: 2 readings1960s1970s: 1 reading1970s1980s: 10 readings1980s1990s: 23 readings1990s2000s: 64 readings642000s2010s: 52 readings2010s2020s: 0 readings2020s
Most date from the 2000s; half were published in 2005 or later.

6.1 Opportunity and the entrepreneurial process

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

26 readings listed in one source
  1. Knight, F. (1921). Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Houghton Mifflin.
  2. Schumpeter, J. A. (1947). The Creative Response in Economic History. The Journal of Economic History, 7(2), 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700054279
  3. Casson, M. (1982). The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory. Barnes and Noble Books.
  4. Gartner, W. B. (1985). A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation. Academy of Management Review, 10(4), 696. https://doi.org/10.2307/258039
  5. Amit, R., Glosten, L., & Muller, E. (1993). Challenges to Theory Development in Entrepreneurship Research. Journal of Management Studies, 30(5), 815–834. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.1993.tb00327.x
  6. Kirzner, I. M. (1997). Entrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian approach. Journal of Economic Literature, 35, 60–85.
  7. Shane, S. (2000). Prior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Organization Science, 11(4), 448–469. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.11.4.448.14602
  8. Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research. Academy of Management Review, 25(1), 217–226. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2000.2791611
  9. Sarasvathy, S. D. (2001). Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency. Academy of Management Review, 26(2), 243. https://doi.org/10.2307/259121
  10. Shane, S. (2003). A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781007990
  11. Ireland, R. (2003). A Model of Strategic Entrepreneurship: The Construct and its Dimensions. Journal of Management, 29(6), 963–989. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0149-2063(03)00086-2
  12. McMullen, J. S., & Shepherd, D. A. (2006). Entrepreneurial Action And The Role Of Uncertainty In The Theory Of The Entrepreneur. Academy of Management Review, 31(1), 132–152. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2006.19379628
  13. Ireland, R. D., & Webb, J. W. (2007). A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Entrepreneurship Research. Journal of Management, 33(6), 891–927. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206307307643
  14. Alvarez, S. A., & Barney, J. B. (2007). Discovery and Creation: Alternative Theories of Entrepreneurial Action. Revista Organizações em Contexto, 3(6), 123–152. https://doi.org/10.15603/1982-8756/roc.v3n6p123-152
  15. Gruber, M., MacMillan, I. C., & Thompson, J. D. (2008). Look Before You Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms. Management Science, 54(9), 1652–1665. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1080.0877
  16. Short, J. C., Ketchen, D. J., Jr, Shook, C. L., & Ireland, R. D. (2010). The Concept of “Opportunity” in Entrepreneurship Research: Past Accomplishments and Future Challenges. Journal of Management, 36(1), 40–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206309342746
  17. Zahra, S. A., & Wright, M. (2011). Entrepreneurship's Next Act. Academy of Management Perspectives, 25(4), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2010.0149
  18. Shane, S. (2012). Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research. Academy of Management Review, 37(1), 10–20. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2011.0078
  19. Venkataraman, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., Dew, N., & Forster, W. R. (2012). Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Whither the promise? Moving forward with entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial. Academy of Management Review, 37(1), 21–33. https://doi.org/10.5465/armr.2011.0079
  20. Grégoire, D. A., & Shepherd, D. A. (2012). Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus. Academy of Management Journal, 55(4), 753–785. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0126
  21. Folta, T. B. (2014). A Model Scholar and Preeminent Contributor to Our Understanding of Strategic Entrepreneurship: Arnold C. Cooper (1933–2012). Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(4), 349–360. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1183
  22. Felin, T., Kauffman, S., Koppl, R., & Longo, G. (2014). Economic Opportunity and Evolution: Beyond Landscapes and Bounded Rationality. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(4), 269–282. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1184
  23. Alvarez, S., Godley, A., & Wright, M. (2014). Mark Casson: The Entrepreneur at 30—Continued Relevance? Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(2), 185–194. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1180
  24. McGrath, R. G. (2015). The Academic Entrepreneur: A Biographical Sketch of Ian C. MacMillan's Contributions to Establishing the Field of Entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 9(2), 188–204. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1185
  25. Ramoglou, S., & Tsang, E. W. K. (2016). A Realist Perspective of Entrepreneurship: Opportunities As Propensities. Academy of Management Review, 41(3), 410–434. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2014.0281
  26. Zahra, S. A. (2016). Portrait of a Research Pioneer: Andrew Van de Ven. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 10(4), 413–429. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1235

6.2 Who becomes an entrepreneur

  1. Burton, M. D., Sørensen, J. B., & Beckman, C. M. (2002). Coming from good stock: Career histories and new venture formation. In Research in the Sociology of Organizations (pp. 229–262). Emerald (MCB UP ). https://doi.org/10.1016/s0733-558x(02)19007-03
16 more, listed in one source
  1. Chinoy, E. (1955/1992). Automobile Workers and the American Dream. University of Illinois Press.
  2. McClelland, D. C. (1961). The achieving society. D. van Nostrand Co. https://doi.org/10.1037/14359-000
  3. Khilstrom, R., & Laffont, J. (1979). A General Equilibrium Entrepreneurial Theory of Firm Formation Based on Risk Aversion. Journal of Political Economy, 87(4), 719–748.
  4. Evans, D., & Leighton, L. (1989). Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship. American Economic Review, 79, 519–535.
  5. Amit, R., Muller, E., & Cockburn, I. (1995). Opportunity costs and entrepreneurial activity. Journal of Business Venturing, 10(2), 95–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/0883-9026(94)00017-o
  6. Amit, R., MacCrimmon, K. R., Zietsma, C., & Oesch, J. M. (2001). Does money matter? Journal of Business Venturing, 16(2), 119–143. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0883-9026(99)00044-0
  7. Lazear, E. P. (2005). Entrepreneurship. Journal of Labor Economics, 23(4), 649–680. https://doi.org/10.1086/491605
  8. Dobrev, S. D., & Barnett, W. P. (2005). Organizational Roles and Transition to Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 48(3), 433–449. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2005.17407910
  9. Baron, R. A. (2007). Behavioral and cognitive factors in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs as the active element in new venture creation. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1(1-2), 167–182. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.12
  10. Hellman, T. F. (2007). When do employees become entrepreneurs? Management Science, 53, 919–933.
  11. Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., Hunkin, J., & Spector, T. D. (2008). Is the Tendency to Engage in Entrepreneurship Genetic? Management Science, 54(1), 167–179. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1070.0761
  12. Vereshchagina, G., & Hopenhayn, H. A. (2009). Risk Taking by Entrepreneurs. American Economic Review, 99(5), 1808–1830. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.99.5.1808
  13. Cassar, G. (2010). Are individuals entering self‐employment overly optimistic? an empirical test of plans and projections on nascent entrepreneur expectations. Strategic Management Journal, 31(8), 822–840. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.833
  14. Fauchart, E., & Gruber, M. (2011). Darwinians, Communitarians, and Missionaries: The Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Journal, 54(5), 935–957. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.0211
  15. Beckman, C. M., Eisenhardt, K., Kotha, S., Meyer, A., & Rajagopalan, N. (2012). The Role of the Entrepreneur in Technology Entrepreneurship. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 6(3), 203–206. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1136
  16. Powell, E. E., & Baker, T. (2014). It's What You Make of It: Founder Identity and Enacting Strategic Responses to Adversity. Academy of Management Journal, 57(5), 1406–1433. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0454

6.3 Founding and early growth of new ventures

  1. Ruef, M. (2000). The Emergence of Organizational Forms: A Community Ecology Approach. American Journal of Sociology, 106(3), 658–714. https://doi.org/10.1086/3189635
  2. Rao, H. (1994). The Social Construction of Reputation: Certification Contests, Legitimation, and the Survival of Organizations in the American Automobile Industry: 1895–1912. Strategic Management Journal, 15(S1), 29–44. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.42501509043
  3. Almandoz, J. (2012). Arriving at the Starting Line: The Impact of Community and Financial Logics on New Banking Ventures. Academy of Management Journal, 55(6), 1381–1406. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.03613
  4. Dimaggio, P. (1982). Cultural entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Boston: the creation of an organizational base for high culture in America. Media, Culture & Society, 4(1), 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443782004001042
  5. Baum, J. A. C., & Haveman, H. A. (1997). Love Thy Neighbor? Differentiation and Agglomeration in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898-1990. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(2), 304. https://doi.org/10.2307/23939222
  6. Sine, W. D., David, R. J., & Mitsuhashi, H. (2007). From Plan to Plant: Effects of Certification on Operational Start-up in the Emergent Independent Power Sector. Organization Science, 18(4), 578–594. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.03002
18 more, listed in one source
  1. White, H. C., & White, C. A. (1965). Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World. Wiley.
  2. Dimaggio, P. (1982). Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art. Media, Culture & Society, 4(4), 303–322. https://doi.org/10.1177/016344378200400402
  3. Katz, J., & Gartner, W. B. (1988). Properties of Emerging Organizations. Academy of Management Review, 13(3), 429. https://doi.org/10.2307/258090
  4. Zucker, L. G. (1989). Combining Institutional Theory and Population Ecology: No Legitimacy, No History. American Sociological Review, 54(4), 542. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095876
  5. Carroll, G. R., & Hannan, M. T. (1989). On Using Institutional Theory in Studying Organizational Populations. American Sociological Review, 54(4), 545. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095877
  6. Aldrich, H. E. (1990). Using an Ecological Perspective to Study Organizational Founding Rates. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 14(3), 7–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/104225879001400303
  7. Baum, J. A. C., & Oliver, C. (1996). Towards an institutional ecology of organizational founding. Academy of Management Journal, 39(5), 1378–1427. https://doi.org/10.2307/257003
  8. Rao, H. (1998). Caveat Emptor: The Construction of Nonprofit Consumer Watchdog Organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 103(4), 912–961. https://doi.org/10.1086/231293
  9. Bhide, A. V. (2000). The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195131444.001.0001
  10. Smith, K. G., Baum, J. R., & Locke, E. A. (2001). A multidimensional model of venture growth. Academy of Management Journal, 44(2), 292–303. https://doi.org/10.2307/3069456
  11. Padgett, J. F. (2001). Organizational genesis, identity, and control: The transformation of banking in Renaissance Florence. In J. E. Rauch & A. Casella (Eds.), Networks and Markets. Russell Sage.
  12. Delmar, F., & Shane, S. (2003). Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures? Strategic Management Journal, 24(12), 1165–1185. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.349
  13. McKendrick, D. G., Jaffee, J., Carroll, G. R., & Khessina, O. M. (2003). In the Bud? Disk Array Producers as a (Possibly) Emergent Organizational Form. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(1), 60–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/3556619
  14. Thornhill, S., & Amit, R. (2003). Learning About Failure: Bankruptcy, Firm Age, and the Resource-Based View. Organization Science, 14(5), 497–509. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.14.5.497.16761
  15. Graebner, M. E., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2004). The Seller's Side of the Story: Acquisition as Courtship and Governance as Syndicate in Entrepreneurial Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 49(3), 366–403. https://doi.org/10.2307/4131440
  16. Carroll, G. R., & Khessina, O. M. (2005). The Ecology of Entrepreneurship. In R. Agarwal, S. A. Alvarez, & O. Sorenson (Eds.), Handbook of Entrepreneurship: Disciplinary Perspectives (pp. 167–200). Kluwer. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23622-8_9
  17. Fern, M. J., Cardinal, L. B., & O'Neill, H. M. (2012). The genesis of strategy in new ventures: escaping the constraints of founder and team knowledge. Strategic Management Journal, 33(4), 427–447. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.1944
  18. Fisher, G., Kotha, S., & Lahiri, A. (2016). Changing with the Times: An Integrated View of Identity, Legitimacy, and New Venture Life Cycles. Academy of Management Review, 41(3), 383–409. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2013.0496

6.4 Resources, social capital and founding teams

  1. Stuart, T. E., Hoang, H., & Hybels, R. C. (1999). Interorganizational Endorsements and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Ventures. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 315–349. https://doi.org/10.2307/26669983
  2. Ruef, M., Aldrich, H. E., & Carter, N. M. (2003). The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs. American Sociological Review, 68(2), 195. https://doi.org/10.2307/15197662
  3. Baker, T., & Nelson, R. E. (2005). Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage. Administrative Science Quarterly, 50(3), 329–366. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.2005.50.3.3292
  4. Almandoz, J. (2014). Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics: When Institutional Forces Predict Banks’ Risk Exposure. Administrative Science Quarterly, 59(3), 442–473. https://doi.org/10.1177/00018392145378102
  5. Hallen, B. L., Katila, R., & Rosenberger, J. D. (2014). How Do Social Defenses Work? A Resource-Dependence Lens on Technology Ventures, Venture Capital Investors, and Corporate Relationships. Academy of Management Journal, 57(4), 1078–1101. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.00032
7 more, listed in one source
  1. Wiewel, W., & Hunter, A. (1985). The Interorganizational Network as a Resource: A Comparative Case Study on Organizational Genesis. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(4), 482. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392693
  2. Gimeno, J., Folta, T. B., Cooper, A. C., & Woo, C. Y. (1997). Survival of the Fittest? Entrepreneurial Human Capital and the Persistence of Underperforming Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, 42(4), 750. https://doi.org/10.2307/2393656
  3. Beckman, C. M. (2006). The Influence of Founding Team Company Affiliations on Firm Behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 49(4), 741–758. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2006.22083030
  4. Zott, C., & Huy, Q. N. (2007). How Entrepreneurs Use Symbolic Management to Acquire Resources. Administrative Science Quarterly, 52(1), 70–105. https://doi.org/10.2189/asqu.52.1.70
  5. Vissa, B. (2012). Agency in Action: Entrepreneurs' Networking Style and Initiation of Economic Exchange. Organization Science, 23(2), 492–510. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0567
  6. Hallen, B. L., & Eisenhardt, K. M. (2012). Catalyzing Strategies and Efficient Tie Formation: How Entrepreneurial Firms Obtain Investment Ties. Academy of Management Journal, 55(1), 35–70. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2009.0620
  7. Mollick, E. (2012). People and process, suits and innovators: the role of individuals in firm performance. Strategic Management Journal, 33(9), 1001–1015. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.1958

6.5 Entrepreneurial finance and venture capital

No reading here is assigned in more than one source.

18 readings listed in one source
  1. Amit, R., Glosten, L., & Muller, E. (1990). Does Venture Capital Foster the Most Promising Entrepreneurial Firms? California Management Review, 32(3), 102–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/41166621
  2. Amit, R., Glosten, L., & Muller, E. (1990). Entrepreneurial Ability, Venture Investments, and Risk Sharing. Management Science, 36(10), 1233–1246. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.36.10.1233
  3. Gompers, P. A. (1995). Optimal Investment, Monitoring, and the Staging of Venture Capital. The Journal of Finance, 50(5), 1461–1489. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.1995.tb05185.x
  4. Amit, R., Brander, J., & Zott, C. (1997). Rethinking Venture Capital Financing. Canadian Investment Review, X(3), 19–22.
  5. Amit, R., Brander, J., & Zott, C. (1998). Why do venture capital firms exist? theory and canadian evidence. Journal of Business Venturing, 13(6), 441–466. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0883-9026(97)00061-x
  6. Brander, J. A., Amit, R., & Antweiler, W. (2002). Venture-Capital Syndication: Improved Venture Selection vs. the Value-Added Hypothesis. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 11(3), 422–451. https://doi.org/10.1162/105864002320272558
  7. Kaplan, S. N., & Stromberg, P. (2003). Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts. Review of Economic Studies, 70(2), 281–315. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-937x.00245
  8. Hsu, D. H. (2004). What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation? The Journal of Finance, 59(4), 1805–1844. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2004.00680.x
  9. Kaplan, S. N., & Schoar, A. (2005). Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence, and Capital Flows. The Journal of Finance, 60(4), 1791–1823. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00780.x
  10. Gompers, P., Kovner, A., Lerner, J., & Scharfstein, D. (2005). Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11385. https://doi.org/10.3386/w11385
  11. Lerner, J., Schoar, A., & Wongsunwai, W. (2007). Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices: The Limited Partner Performance Puzzle. The Journal of Finance, 62(2), 731–764. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2007.01222.x
  12. Wasserman, N. (2008). Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of Venture Capital. Organization Science, 19(2), 241–259. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1070.0309
  13. Combs, J. G., Michael, S. C., & Castrogiovanni, G. J. (2009). Institutional Influences on the Choice of Organizational Form: The Case of Franchising. Journal of Management, 35(5), 1268–1290. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206309336883
  14. Kaplan, S. N., Sensoy, B. A., & Strömberg, P. (2009). Should Investors Bet on the Jockey or the Horse? Evidence from the Evolution of Firms from Early Business Plans to Public Companies. The Journal of Finance, 64(1), 75–115. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01429.x
  15. Li, Y., & Chi, T. (2013). Venture capitalists' decision to withdraw: The role of portfolio configuration from a real options lens. Strategic Management Journal, 34(11), 1351–1366. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.2073
  16. Mollick, E. (2014). The dynamics of crowdfunding: An exploratory study. Journal of Business Venturing, 29(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2013.06.005
  17. Huang, L., & Pearce, J. L. (2015). Managing the Unknowable: The Effectiveness of Early-stage Investor Gut Feel in Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions. Administrative Science Quarterly, 60(4), 634–670. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839215597270
  18. Ewens, M., Nanda, R., & Rhodes-Kropf, M. (2018). Cost of experimentation and the evolution of venture capital. Journal of Financial Economics, 128(3), 422–442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.03.001

6.6 Corporate entrepreneurship and spinoffs

  1. Burgelman, R. A. (1983). A Process Model of Internal Corporate Venturing in the Diversified Major Firm. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28(2), 223. https://doi.org/10.2307/23926192
  2. Klepper, S. (2001). Employee Startups in High-Tech Industries. Industrial and Corporate Change, 10(3), 639–674. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/10.3.6392
  3. Phillips, D. J. (2002). A Genealogical Approach to Organizational Life Chances: The Parent-Progeny Transfer among Silicon Valley Law Firms, 1946–1996. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47(3), 474–506. https://doi.org/10.2307/30948482
15 more, listed in one source
  1. Anton, J., & Yao, D. (1995). Start-ups, Spin-offs, and Internal Projects. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jleo.a036876
  2. Gompers, P., Lerner, J., & Scharfstein, D. (2005). Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986 to 1999. The Journal of Finance, 60(2), 577–614. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2005.00740.x
  3. Gilbert, C. G. (2005). Unbundling the Structure of Inertia: Resource Versus Routine Rigidity. Academy of Management Journal, 48(5), 741–763. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2005.18803920
  4. Dushnitsky, G., & Lenox, M. J. (2005). When do firms undertake R&D by investing in new ventures? Strategic Management Journal, 26(10), 947–965. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.488
  5. Dushnitsky, G., & Lenox, M. J. (2005). When do incumbents learn from entrepreneurial ventures? Research Policy, 34(5), 615–639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2005.01.017
  6. Dushnitsky, G., & Lenox, M. J. (2006). When does corporate venture capital investment create firm value? Journal of Business Venturing, 21(6), 753–772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2005.04.012
  7. Dushnitsky, G., & Shaver, J. M. (2009). Limitations to interorganizational knowledge acquisition: the paradox of corporate venture capital. Strategic Management Journal, 30(10), 1045–1064. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.781
  8. Dushnitsky, G., & Shapira, Z. (2010). Entrepreneurial finance meets organizational reality: comparing investment practices and performance of corporate and independent venture capitalists. Strategic Management Journal, 31(9), 990–1017. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.851
  9. Mollick, E. R. (2010). In the Blood: Organizational History and the Heritability of New Venture Performance. Working paper. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1630549
  10. Gaba, V., & Bhattacharya, S. (2012). Aspirations, innovation, and corporate venture capital: A behavioral perspective. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 6(2), 178–199. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1133
  11. Kacperczyk, A. J. (2012). Opportunity Structures in Established Firms: Entrepreneurship versus Intrapreneurship in Mutual Funds. Administrative Science Quarterly, 57(3), 484–521. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839212462675
  12. Park, H. D., & Steensma, H. K. (2012). When does corporate venture capital add value for new ventures? Strategic Management Journal, 33(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.937
  13. Park, H. D., & Steensma, H. K. (2013). The Selection and Nurturing Effects of Corporate Investors on New Venture Innovativeness. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 7(4), 311–330. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1165
  14. Sonenshein, S. (2014). How Organizations Foster the Creative Use of Resources. Academy of Management Journal, 57(3), 814–848. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2012.0048
  15. Souitaris, V., & Zerbinati, S. (2014). How do Corporate Venture Capitalists do Deals? An Exploration of Corporate Investment Practices. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8(4), 321–348. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1178

6.7 Social entrepreneurship and diversity

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6.8 Entrepreneurship, institutions and the economy

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