Entrepreneurial Passion Heterogeneity and New Venture Team Performance Trajectory

The Influence of Entrepreneurial Passion in New Venture Teams: an Empirical Examination

Entrepreneurial Team Dynamics and New Venture Creation Process in Digital Entrepreneurial Teams: An Exploratory Study Within a Startup Incubator

New venture creation plays a significant role in the today’s economy because it accounts for a considerable portion of new product innovations. Despite many success stories, many new ventures fail before they have fulfilled their greatest potential. Overriding the myth of the “lonely hero entrepreneur” and shifting attention to the “entrepreneurial team”, this research attempts to explore sever...

Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture

This paper is about …nancial contracting choices for the entrepreneur. In an incomplete contracts model, the entrepreneur can design contracts contingent on three possible control right allocations: entrepreneur-control, investor-control, and joint control, with each allocation inducing di¤erent e¤ort levels by both the entrepreneur and the investor. Four types of contract emerge as potentially...

Now and Later? Mentorship, Investor Ties and New Venture Performance in Entrepreneurial Seed-Accelerators

While business accelerators remain understudied in the academic literature, there is growing interest in understanding how accelerators work and where they provide value to entrepreneurs. In this paper, we focus exactly on this question – we examine how mentorship and investor ties, two key aspects observed across accelerators in general lead to positive accelerator outcomes and through them, t...

Is passion contagious? The transference of entrepreneurial passion to employees

The scholarly entrepreneurship community is coming to recognize what practicing entrepreneurs have known for some time — that passion is a central element of the entrepreneurial process. Recent developments have more carefully defined the construct of entrepreneurial passion and modeled its impact on entrepreneurial behaviors. This paper takes the next step by building a model of how that passi...