Organizations often create new businesses, so-called corporate ventures (CVs), with the
purpose of fostering innovation. However, not all venture initiatives turn out to be innovative …

We advance a model that highlights contingent linkages between overconfidence and
narcissism, entrepreneurial entry, and the successful realization of venture opportunities …

There is a fundamental conflict between new venture and mature company management
requirements. As an enterprise evolves, the focus for success shifts from sensing and …

Abstract Research Summary Studying the organizational design of entrepreneurial ventures
involves investigating how entrepreneurs design the (formal) structure of their ventures as …

An impressive literature documents how individual-level factors correlate with
entrepreneurship and commercialization behaviors. We have far less insight, however, into …

In this paper we examine the corporate venturing process in fifteen UK‐based firms,
representing the experience of some sixty internal corporate ventures. We focus on the …

Theorists debate whether organizations are inertial or adaptable, but mounting evidence
shows they are both, provoking questions about how shifts occur between inertia and …

Entrepreneurship research has paid insufficient attention to the context in which new
businesses are started. Consequently, efforts to identify factors that consistently lead to …

Managers of corporate parents and their ventures have long been faced with the question of
how closely to tie the parent and venture. A close connection may enable a venture to …

Stage of growth developmental models have traditionally been used to enhance our
understanding of the organizational creation and growth process. Until recently, most of this …