Living and dying: Synthesizing the literature on firm survival and failure across stages of development

MA Josefy, JS Harrison, DG Sirmon… - … of Management Annals, 2017 - journals.aom.org
Understanding why some firms survive while others fail is a central question of strategic
management research. Indeed, many consider survival the quintessential indicator of firm …

[HTML][HTML] Service tasks of board of directors: A literature review and research agenda in an era of new governance practices

C Åberg, M Bankewitz, M Knockaert - European Management Journal, 2019 - Elsevier
In their seminal review article on board of directors, Johnson, Daily, and Ellstrand (1996)
distinguished between the control, service, and resource dependence tasks of the board …

Understanding the life cycles of entrepreneurial teams and their ventures: An agenda for future research

H Patzelt, R Preller, N Breugst - … Theory and Practice, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
While research on entrepreneurial teams has flourished over the past two decades, it has
mainly taken a static perspective, neglecting the developments both teams and their …

[HTML][HTML] Team resilience building in response to co-founder exits

R Preller, N Breugst, H Patzelt, R Dibbern - Journal of Business Venturing, 2023 - Elsevier
Founding teams often experience the exit of co-founders. To develop theory about how
founding teams deal with adversity emerging from the exit of one of their members, we take …

Does team entrepreneurial passion matter for relationship conflict and team performance? On the importance of fit between passion focus and venture development …

S Boone, P Andries, B Clarysse - Journal of Business Venturing, 2020 - Elsevier
This study advances the literature on entrepreneurial passion, which struggles to explain
when and how the experience of passion impacts venture-level performance, by shifting the …

The undigital behavior of innovative startups: empirical evidence and taxonomy of digital innovation strategies

P Centobelli, R Cerchione, E Esposito… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize the digital behavior of startups and investigate the
emerging behaviors about digital strategies of the Italian startup firms enrolled in the Startup …

The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?

N Symeonidou, DR DeTienne, F Chirico - Small Business Economics, 2022 - Springer
Research on family firms provides mixed evidence of the effect of family ownership on firm
performance and exit outcomes. Drawing on threshold theory and the socioemotional wealth …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance work systems in family firms: A mixed gamble approach

JD Peláez-León, G Sánchez-Marín - Journal of Business Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on the use of high-performance work systems (HPWSs) in family firms has yielded
mixed evidence. This study aims to bridge this gap by using the socioemotional wealth …

Industry profitability matters: The value of sustainable growth rate and distance from bankruptcy as enablers of venture survival

PC Patel, MJ Guedes, MS Pagano, GT Olson - Journal of Business …, 2020 - Elsevier
Industries with a higher return on invested capital (ROIC), or profit for each unit of assets
invested, could be particularly appealing to entrepreneurs. Yet, why do some ventures in …

Origins and emergence of exploration and exploitation capabilities in new technology-based firms

A Jensen, TH Clausen - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017 - Elsevier
The essence of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) is to generate new technologies and
employ them in practice, contributing to a business sector in which many approaches to …