Planned luck: How incubators can facilitate serendipity for nascent entrepreneurs through fostering network embeddedness

C Busch, H Barkema - Entrepreneurship Theory and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Incubators often play an important role in facilitating networks for entrepreneurs. However,
nascent entrepreneurs typically face high uncertainty and goal ambiguity, and which ties …

Opening the aperture: Explaining the complementary roles of advice and testing when forming entrepreneurial strategy

A Miller, S O'Mahony, SL Cohen - Organization Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Forming entrepreneurial strategy is difficult, as the future value of strategy alternatives is
uncertain. To create and capture value, firms are advised to consider and test multiple …

The role of incubator support in new firms accumulation of resources and capabilities

M Breivik-Meyer, M Arntzen-Nordqvist, GA Alsos - Innovation, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Entrepreneurs need to accumulate different types of resources and capabilities to gain a
competitive advantage for their firms, often in settings characterised by uncertainty and …

When is effort contagious in new venture management teams? Understanding the contingencies of social motivation theory

N Breugst, H Patzelt… - Journal of Management …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Consistent with social motivation theory, prior research on managerial motivation suggests
that effort is contagious across management team members. In this study, we draw on …

Another post‐heroic view on entrepreneurship: The role of employees in networking the start‐up process

T Braun, AI Ferreira, T Schmidt… - British Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Moving beyond the present post‐heroic perspective known from leadership and
entrepreneurship research that emphasizes the importance of external context, we shift the …

Beyond the lone hero: How interpersonal feedback seeking helps entrepreneurs to engage with their social environment

A Drencheva, U Stephan, M Patterson - Applied Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Entrepreneurs are often depicted as lone heroes. However, they are encouraged to seek
and use feedback from their social environment to refine their venture ideas and enhance …

An empirical test of sponsorship theory on a population of business incubators between 2005 and 2017–is it working or not?

M Samuelsson, M Jutterström - Innovation, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article investigates how business incubator support affects subsequent firm
performance. We build on and extend a recent focus on organisational sponsorship …

Investors response to different dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation

A Agnihotri, S Bhattacharya - International Journal of Organizational …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Leveraging signalling theory and institutional environment theory, this study aims to
examine how the entrepreneurial orientation of emerging market firms impacts initial public …

Introduction: Bringing jobs back in: Toward a new multi-level approach to the study of work and organizations

MD Burton, LE Cohen, M Lounsbury - The structuring of work in …, 2016 - emerald.com
In this paper, we call for renewed attention to the structure and structuring of work within and
between organizations. We argue that a multi-level approach, with jobs as a core analytic …

Attributes of Business Incubators: A Conjoint Analysis of Venture Capitalist's Decision Making

M Manconi, S Bellomo, A Nosella… - Journal of Risk and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Startups contribute significantly to the economic development of a country. Despite their
importance and promising future, they are extremely fragile, mainly for their lack of tangible …