How does the relationship between founding team composition and venture performance
depend on the venture's strategy and business environment? Using data from a novel …

Upper echelon theory highlights the importance of top management teams in large and
established firms; however, effects are not always clear outside of this context. Due to the …

As entrepreneurship research has matured, scholars have increasingly recognized that the
formation of new ventures is commonly accomplished by teams as opposed to lone …

We distinguish novelty from newness and argue that the tasks of new venture top
management teams vary with new venture novelty. We argue that as novelty increases, the …

This study conceptualizes founding team human capital with three multi–item scales that are
related to critical functional areas in new service ventures: marketing capabilities, market …

The likelihood of nascent entrepreneurs making the transition from a new venture idea to a
profitable business is argued to be contingent on the breadth of the resources available …

While earlier researchers have argued that the founding team's industry and start-up
experience should positively affect new venture performance, robust empirical support for …

This study explores the relationship between new venture team composition and new
venture persistence and performance over time. We examine the team characteristics of a 5 …

Entrepreneurial team formation—the process through which founders establish a team to
start a new venture—has important implications for team performance and entrepreneurial …

In this paper we introduce a new contingency variable that moderates the effect of top
management team composition on organizational performance–the organization's business …