Entrepreneurial Teams, Gender, and New Venture Survival: Contexts and Institutions

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...

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

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...

Disclosure, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Spawning

Venture capital funds have been facing increasing regulatory scrutiny since the 2007 financial crisis, particularly in respect of calls for increased disclosure requirements. In this paper, we examine whether more stringent securities regulation helps or hinders the supply and performance of venture capital as well as new business creation (i.e., entrepreneurial spawning). Based on data from 34...

The Use and Effect of Social Capital in New Venture Creation – Solo Entrepreneurs vs. New Venture Teams

This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that solo entrepreneurs and new venture teams do not differ in their degree of use of social capital. Howev...