Through an inductive study of six corporate venture capital programs, we unravel how new
organizational units resolve competing forces from two different institutional environments …

Support systems for early venturing efforts need to be harmonious with the emergent nature
of those efforts. With the current literature treating the conceptions of new ventures as …

This study investigates the types of championing processes that explain the innovativeness
of 136 internal corporate ventures. Current theory suggests that bottom-up champions create …

Acquisitions are an important exit strategy for technology entrepreneurs and investors, but
what can technology ventures do to increase their chances of achieving an acquisition? We …

The strategy focus of over 2500 new ventures across six different industries was examined
to identify what dimensions coalesce into distinct configurations. The supposition that …

Time is a defining feature of human activity, but has been underexamined in theories of
entrepreneurial action. This is perplexing given that entrepreneurial action is oriented …

New ventures (companies eight years or younger) face an important choice in attempting to
achieve growth: Should they follow “strategic simplicity” by relying on a few similar …

January–February 2010 Harvard Business Review 77 suppliers, and customers are. They
hold constant the very parameters that are up in the air. Some frameworks compare the …

Research summary How do external venturing units effectively achieve external knowledge
search and integration of their initiatives with mainstream organizational units? We …

To investigate how firms engage in forward-looking action, we examined the processes by
which a pioneering firm actively influenced the future of its industry over five decades. From …