Bringing Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life

Mit Sloan School of Management Mit Sloan School Working Paper 4762-09 Bringing Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life Bringing Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life

Organizational design in the context of new venture development is particularly challenging due to initially severe resource constraints. Deepening our understanding of differential productivity in the startup resource assembly process is therefore important. We address the twin questions of what assets are important to venture performance, and under what conditions are those assets especially ...

Bringing Ideas to Life : Integrating Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities

Using unique data on firm origins, early composition and multiple stages of performance measures, we provide evidence that if there are significant differences in the organizational capability to find valuable resources, then empirical tests of organizational economics alone with yield spurious results. Similarly, if determining the optimal arrangements for governance and transactions significa...

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Bringing Autonomic Services To Life

LUCIANO BARESI Politecnico di Milano ROBERTO CASCELLA Università Degli Studi di Trento PETER DEUSSEN Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems ANTONIO DI FERDINANDO AND RICARDO LENT Imperial College London SANDRA HASELOFF AND NERMIN BRGULJA Universität Kassel ANTONIO MANZALINI AND CORRADO MOISO Telecom Italia FABRICE SAFFRE British Telecommunications and FRANCO ZAMBONELLI Università d...

Bringing Evo Devo to Life

T he essential path of adaptive evolution is that genetic variation among individuals is translated by the process of development into phenotypic variability, which is then screened by natural selection for any design changes that enhance survival and reproductive success. In Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Sean Carroll shows how the central black box of development that maps phenotypes onto geno...