How Founding Teams’ Diversity Shapes Culture and Impacts Venture Success
The paper focuses on how a founding team's cognitive diversity shapes the creation of a venture's culture and how this impacts venture outcomes such as reliability, legitimacy, and stakeholder engagement. The model presented in the paper serves as an initial step towards understanding culture creation in new ventures, hoping to inspire further research on the topic.
The environment advantage
How political, economical, and other conditions in the business environments can impact start-ups
Walls to tear down
An analysis of the impact business receive from government limitations and how these set the landscape for entrepreneurs
Align or perish
Aligned capacity building and aligning incentives with political actors enable ventures to overcome alignment challenges.
In the heat of the game
“Opportunity” as intentional content vs. opportunity as conditions of satisfaction
Pivoting or Persevering?
To persevere, entrepreneurs position actions as continuation of the past, extend timelines and complexify temporal ordering.
Failed but validated?
For failed crowdfunding projects, more market validation predicts commercialization performance.
Opportunity-production processes of aspiring refugee entrepreneurs
What patterns emerge among refugee entrepreneurs seeking disruption?
Owls, Larks, or Investment Sharks?
How does the time of day influence early-stage investment decisions?
ADHD Symptoms and Entrepreneurialism
How do mental health factors influence entrepreneurial activity and outcomes?
Work Designer, an important but often overlooked role of an entrepreneur
Work that a founder does everyday is also a creation of their own.
Is entrepreneurship the solution to economic inequality in emerging economies or the force creating it?
How does entrepreneurship affect economic inequality in emerging economies as opposed to mature economies? Where should scholars focus future research to help solve economic inequality?
Out of control or right on the money?
How does self-efficacy influence funder decision-making performance?
Entrepreneurial narratives in the video game industry to seek differentiation and coherence
How to do new ventures balance differentiation while maintaining coherence to a market segment?
The Path to Publication for Entrepreneurship Experiments
What kinds of gatekeeping hurdles do researchers face in the publishing process for entrepreneurship experiments? What can researchers do to increase their chance of success in publishing experimental work?
Effects of public and private infrastructure investments
How do infrastructure investments affect business growth and job creation? What effects does it have on exit rate and job destruction?
What factors determine the amount of funding raised in ICOs?
Interested in how to evaluate or conduct an initial coin offering? How can high quality ventures attract higher amounts of funding through signaling? How can ventures reduce information asymmetry?
How do entrepreneurs come up with the next big idea?
Which team configurations of imaginativeness result in higher quality new venture ideas? Which configurations result in lower quality new venture ideas?
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How do emotions affect entrepreneur decision-making? What helps entrepreneurs make sustainability-related decisions?
Do we understand each other?
Where do opportunities come from? How do entrepreneurs determine whether an idea is good or not?