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 study analyzes how the market overlap between startups founded by former employees of parent organizations affects their performance. The researchers propose that market overlap has a curvilinear relationship with the likelihood of survival of spin-outs. The previous hierarchical position of founders moderates this relationship. Market overlap helps reduce uncertainty, but too much overlap may lead to hostile actions by parent organizations, creating disruptive competition that lowers spin-outs' survival. The study uses European biotech spin-outs and their parent firms as a sample and finds support for the hypotheses.

The potentials and perils of prosocial power.

There is a positive association between venture capital backing and the top management team quality of firms going public.

Family and community background explains up to 45% of variation in entrepreneurship.

“The self-efficacy of an entrepreneur cannot be viewed in isolation from the environment in which they operate.”

How do outside entrepreneur board directors influence firm growth?

How do different career states associate with career success?

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?

How is human capital and founder coachability related to product innovation?

What are the key themes in research on identity in entrepreneurship?

Does new venture team power hierarchy enhance or impair new venture performance?

In one of JBVs most cited articles of all time, Davidsson & Honig found social & human capital to be predictors for nascent entrepreneurs. What role do each play in advancing through the start-up process?