Founding Teams and Startup Performance

Founding the Future: The evolution of teams from founding to IPO•

We develop an evolutionary theory of entrepreneurial top management teams highlighting that entrepreneurial teams follow a path-dependent process where the founding team shapes the quality and characteristics of subsequent executive teams. By attracting top managers who are both similar to the founders and experienced in their own right, experienced founding teams accrue long-term advantages. U...

Founding the Future: Path Dependence in the Evolution of Top Management Teams from Founding to IPO

We contrast life-cycle and path-dependent views of entrepreneurial firms by examining the evolution of top management teams. We show how initial conditions constrain subsequent outcomes by demonstrating that the founding team’s prior functional experiences and initial organizational functional structures predict subsequent top manager backgrounds and later functional structures. We find that na...

Founding Enterprise Systems on Enterprise Performance Analysis

Information, knowledge and learning systems are developed with the implicit belief that their existence will lead to better performance for those using them, and that this will translate into better performance for the organisations for which the user works. One important activity that must occur prior to requirements analysis for such systems is organisational and human performance analysis. O...

Teams for Teams Performance in Multi-Human/Multi-Robot Teams

The present study addresses the interaction between automation and organization of human teams in controlling large robot teams performing an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) task. We identify three subtasks: perceptual visual search for victims, assistance teleoperation to assist robot, and navigation path planning and coordination. For the studies reported, navigation was selected for automatio...

Designing Incentives in Startup Teams: Form and Timing of Equity Contracting