After more than 35 years, Hambrick and Mason's upper echelons theory (UET) stands as
one of the most influential perspectives in management research. However, as the literature …

Academic interest in start-up teams has grown dramatically over the past 40 years, with
researchers from a wide variety of disciplines actively studying the topic. Although this …

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 …

Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in managing
their internal organizations. Progress on understanding these dynamics has been …

Evaluating the attractiveness of startup employment requires an understanding of both what
startups pay and the implications of these jobs for earnings trajectories. Analyzing Danish …

Who constitutes the top management team (TMT)? What are the boundary conditions that
distinguish the TMT from other managers? Despite nearly four decades of TMT research, the …

Research summary The role structure of a top management team (TMT)—the roles of TMT
members and the relationships among those roles—has important implications for how TMT …

One of the major entrepreneurial challenges faced by scaling firms involves changing their
internal organization. Our study focuses on a particular aspect of internal organizing …

We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they
professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In …

Over the last two decades, the sociology of entrepreneurship has exploded as an area of
academic inquiry. Most of this research has been focused on understanding the …