Showing papers in "Journal of Business Venturing in 1997"

TL;DR: The authors examined differences between entrepreneurs and managers in large organizations with respect to two biases and heuristics: overconfidence (overestimating the probability of being right) and representativeness (the tendency to overgeneralize from a few characteristics or observations).

TL;DR: The ENTRESCALE scale as discussed by the authors examines eight items reflecting the innovative and proactive disposition of management at a given firm and uses them to measure the extent of entrepreneurial orientation among main operations, subsidiaries, and (potential) partner firms in foreign lands.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model consisting of three sets of determinants of successful family business transitions was proposed consisting of the preparation level of the heirs, the nature of relationships among family members, and the types of planning and control activities engaged in by the family business.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a survey that ranked university entrepreneurship programs and explore how universities determined what courses constituted a program in entrepreneurship and how they determined the criteria that impact an entrepreneurship program's quality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined individual factors influencing performance of 200 Israeli women-owned businesses and found that women entrepreneurs are motivated by three basic groups of motives: achievement, independence, and economic necessity.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework and seven related propositions linking individualism and collectivism to entrepreneurship is presented, where the authors identify how both orientations affect the functions of entrepreneurship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the discontinuance pattern of 203 new firms in the retail industry and found that women-owned firms have higher odds of discontinuing than men-owned ones, and women appear to have fewer resources to start their businesses.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for assessing and managing the university technology business incubator (UTBI) as a tool for new venture creation is proposed, which is drawn from a combined survey of the existing body of knowledge in the areas of business incubation, the university's involvement in technology and business development support, and the commonly accepted approaches to organizational assessment that provide the necessary building blocks for the integrative framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of the total amount of capital raised by a firm through an initial public offering (IPO) and empirically test on a sample of 92 biotechnology IPOs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the importance of habitual entrepreneurs to the venture capital industry, with particular emphasis on those who have exited from an initial investment in the venture capitalists' portfolio, termed serial entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: This article found that the majority of start-up capital that financed small business formation came from family wealth (equity) and financial institution loans (debt), which typifies the process whereby supportive peer and community subgroups assist the creation and operation of firms by providing social capital in the form of loans.

TL;DR: In this article, a typological theory of entrepreneurial success is developed by examining how the fit between context and four other critical dimensions cause successful foundings, including entrepreneurial networks, entrepreneurial confidence-building behaviors, the motivation of stakeholders, and organizational structures and strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the transfer process of 23 different technologies developed at the University of Minnesota from 1983 to 1993 and found that most of the transferred technologies were used either to upgrade existing products or to extend existing product lines.

TL;DR: The authors of as mentioned in this paper found that managers who are entrepreneurial in their behavior have a positive impact on their subordinates' satisfaction with their supervisors, even when entrepreneurial management was counter to the company's preexisting culture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of tolerance for ambiguity and risk-taking propensity in mediating the relationships between role conflict and perceived performance among 70 entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses in Singapore.

TL;DR: The authors examined differences between independent ventures and corporate ventures and found that managers of CVs and IVs emphasized different resources and strategies, such as internal capital sources, proprietary knowledge, and marketing expertise.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the VC's incentives to maximize the profits of the entrepreneurs of ventures and the limited partners of a venture fund and show that the VC allocates attention among ventures and venture funds less frequently than required to maximise the entrepreneurs' and limited partners' profits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the event study method to assess stockholders' risk-adjusted wealth gains and a cross-sectional analysis based on a generalized least-squares model to test the hypotheses.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the differences and similarities in work-related values between Chinese entrepreneurs, managers, and U.S. entrepreneurs as exploratory research and found that entrepreneurial characteristics, such as individualism, achievement motives, and self-deterministic behavior, are universal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the learning needs and preferred instructional methods of practicing, fast growth entrepreneurs and provide a model of curriculum content for universities that wish to bring their courses more in line with the needs of practicing entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a large-scale empirical research study involving subjective and financial information from 118 publicly traded U.S. manufacturing firms and find that, in these industries, a company's marketing strategies preceding a recession strongly impact the extent of economic downturn on the firm, and influence its odds of a timely and complete recovery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the citation classics in contemporary small enterprise research (CSER) and a more qualitative discussion of the contributions of these classical articles and reveal the evolution of thought in the relatively new field of entrepreneurship research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the relationship between sales improvement per employee since first-round funding and dismissal and found a negative relationship between procedural justice in the VC-NVT relationship and dismissal.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a case study of the development and success of two major technological and market innovations: (1) the Toshiba laptop computer, a project vetoed twice by corporate headquarters, and (2) the notebook computer, hidden from headquarters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that large initial resource commitments do not result in higher market share and market survival in international markets, and that first entrants typically commit fewer resources, suggesting that this strategy can be pursued by firms with limited resources.