What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and
Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into …

We use signaling theory to explain how new ventures effectively signal future prospects to
acquire external resources. Based on a sample of 235 new ventures drawn from a unique …

Labor market insecurity has been expanding rapidly in recent years, as downsizing,
outsourcing, and the use of “contingent” labor have all combined to weaken the “standard” …

We explore a well‐known instance of fast decision making under high uncertainty, venture
capital (VC) opportunity screening. We analyze a sample of 722 funding requests submitted …

While the dotcom period is often dismissed as a false start in the history of the web's
commercial development, it is better conceived of as highly generative of modern structures …

Venture capital (VC) refers to investments provided to early-stage, innovative, and high
growth start-up companies. A common characteristic of all venture capital investments is that …

This article reviews the activities undertaken by venture capitalists before the first dollar is
invested. The unifying theme is information acquisition. Specifically, it reviews how venture …

We examine the influence of two factors beyond pay on applicants' job offer evaluations in
the IT and hospitality industries–whether an offer's expected work hours influence attraction …

Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market
experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers …

How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and Internet markets evolved
over the past half-century? In the first section of this review, I discuss these questions in light …