New venture dissolution and the comobility of new venture teams

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...

The New Venture Creation Process: How Nascent Entrepreneurs Behave When Forming a New Venture

Organizational Learning and New Venture Performance

This research uses Huber’s (1991) conceptualization of organizational learning to analyze knowledge acquisition by management teams in emerging firms. Involvement in ongoing knowledge acquisition activities is positively and significantly related to new venture performance. In addition, task environment dynamism is a positive moderator of the relationship between involvement in knowledge acquis...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Effective Heuristics for New Venture Formation

Entrepreneurs are often under time pressure and may only have a short window of opportunity to launch their new venture. This means they often have no time for rational analytical decisions and rather rely on heuristics. Past research on entrepreneurial heuristics has primarily focused on predictive modes of control. Studies have analyzed the heuristics that entrepreneurs use when they try to p...