Showing papers in "Journal of Business Venturing in 1995"

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of corporate entrepreneurship and its impact on company financial performance is presented, which suggests that corporate entrepreneurship is a particularly effective practice among companies operating in hostile environments (as opposed to benign environments).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a scenario approach to determine if entrepreneurs exhibit evidence of unique cognitive categorization processes when they are presented with equivocal data, and found that these perceptual differences were consistent and significant (i.e., entrepreneurs perceived more strengths versus weaknesses, opportunities versus threats, and potential for performance improvement versus deterioration).

TL;DR: This paper explored whether certain cognitive factors of potential entrepreneurs (as measured by a personal efficacy scale and the kinds of reasons people offer for their decision to undertake efforts to start a business) can be used to predict their subsequent persistence in business start-up activities and in new venture creation success.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared a company's pre-and post-LBO commitment to corporate entrepreneurship (CE), measured along two dimensions: innovation and venturing, and found that changes in corporate entrepreneurship activities were significantly and positively associated with changes in company performance.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that women are more likely to enter self-employment in skilled services fields than men and that advanced education and work experience were the strongest predictors of female self-employee entry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the range and intensity of networking among high-growth and low-growth entrepreneurial ventures in the People's Republic of China and find that the relationship between networking activities and growth transcended the stage of firm development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the information search practices of 1176 entrepreneurs and found that those with no entrepreneurial experience, on the average, sought more, not less, information, while those with higher levels of initial confidence sought less information.

TL;DR: This paper found that the satisfaction of entrepreneurs emphasizing economic goals was not more sensitive to economic performance, at least within the range of performance considered in this sample, and the relationship between membership in these demographic groups and later satisfaction was also examined.

TL;DR: This article found that those who choose to leave their employment to become entrepreneurs earn substantially less on average then those whose employment status did not change and who remained paid employees throughout the survey period.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined four potential sources of differences between venture capital (VC) firms, including the stage of interest, amount of assistance provided by the VC, VC firm size, and geographic region where located.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of three measurement issues that impact the study of entrepreneurship over time: (1) level of analysis difference between firms and individuals, (2) differences between rate and stock measures, and (3) the effects of choosing particular time frames on subsequent analytical results.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors document the entrepreneurial activities of the faculty of the University of Calgary, as well as the impact the University has had and the impact its recent budgetary problems might have on such activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the location of a new firm on its chances of survival and found that the impact on location of the new firm will be influenced by the industry in which it operates and the strategy it pursues.

TL;DR: The authors found that the more either type of investor is concerned with market or agency risk, the less likely he or she will be to use informal network informants (business associates and friends).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a measure to evaluate venture team interpersonal process effectiveness, and showed the relationship of interpersonalprocess effectiveness and partner agreement on specific aspects of interpersonal process to reports of venture success.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that small firms use different channels according to their objectives and turn to networks to overcome the limits of the information transfer system they use, and they use iterative techniques and intuition to complete their information and to decide on their investments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the "trajectory template" to evaluate the performance of a financial services firm and found that failure is more likely to lead to strategic redirection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the impact of relatedness on the performance of industrial product corporate ventures and show that the highest market shares are achieved by those ventures with high levels of relative relatedness and high level of intangible assets.

TL;DR: Critical assumption planning (CAP) as discussed by the authors is a process for business development risk management that focuses on learning to deal with uncertainty in new markets at the lowest cost by identifying and testing critical assumptions in the plan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study on the history of the creation and development within an established French electrical firm of a new business, a high-tech foundry, by a dynamic entrepreneur.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that failure at any one hurdle is potentially fatal, and a mathematical analysis shows that the likelihood of passing even 10 hurdles in a row is about one in three.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data on bank responses to 192 client firms and identified four distinct strategies toward these firms: (1) managerial, involving efforts to influence strategy and operations of the firm through suggestions and recommendations; (2) financial, involving effort to safeguard the security interests of the bank by seeking additional collateral and guarantees; (3) legal, involving recovery of funds through courts; and (4) restructuring, including efforts to improve capitalization.