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Research paper thumbnail of When Does Lack of Resources Make New Firms Innovative?

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the formation of international new ventures: The limits of theories from international business research

Journal of Business Venturing, 1994

SSRN-Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures: The Limits of Theories from Internat... more SSRN-Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures: The Limits of Theories from International Business Research by Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane, Benjamin M. Oviatt.

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to the Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer

Management Science, 2002

... General Terms: Documentation. Collaborative Colleagues: David C. Mowery: colleagues. Scott Sh... more ... General Terms: Documentation. Collaborative Colleagues: David C. Mowery: colleagues. Scott Shane: colleagues. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2009 ACM, Inc. Terms ...

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring entrepreneurship over time

Journal of Business Venturing, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of Fostering Risk Taking in Research and Development: The Importance of a Project's Terminal Value

Research paper thumbnail of Entrepreneurship and occupational choice: Genetic and environmental influences

We applied quantitative genetics techniques to a sample of 347 pairs of monozygotic and 303 pairs... more We applied quantitative genetics techniques to a sample of 347 pairs of monozygotic and 303 pairs of dizygotic twins taken from the MIDUS database to examine the influence of genetic factors on the variation across people in the tendency to be self-employed and to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Organization governance form in franchising: efficient contracting or organizational momentum?

Research paper thumbnail of New Firm Survival: Institutional Explanations for New Franchisor Mortality

Management Science, 1999

Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that new firms fail because entre... more Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that new firms fail because entrepreneurs inefficiently manage production and organizational design (Williamson 1985). Sociologists (e.g., Granovetter 1985) have typically viewed this explanation as undersocialized, and argue that institutional legitimacy must also be considered to explain the survival of new firms. This paper examines the survival of 1292 new

Research paper thumbnail of Genetics, the Big Five, and the tendency to be self-employed

The Journal of applied psychology, 2010

We applied multivariate genetics techniques to a sample of 3,412 monozygotic and dizygotic twins ... more We applied multivariate genetics techniques to a sample of 3,412 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United Kingdom and 1,300 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United States to examine whether genetic factors account for part of the covariance between the Big Five personality characteristics and the tendency to be an entrepreneur. We found that common genes influenced the phenotypic correlations between only Extraversion and Openness to Experience and the tendency to be an entrepreneur. Although the phenotypic correlations between the personality characteristics and the tendency to be an entrepreneur were small in size, genetic factors accounted for most of them.

Research paper thumbnail of The Promise of Entrepreneurs Hip as a Field of Research

For a field of social science to have usefulness, it must have a conceptual frame- work that expl... more For a field of social science to have usefulness, it must have a conceptual frame- work that explains and predicts a set of empirical phenomena not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields. To date, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship has ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Kauffman Firm Survey: Results from the Baseline and First Follow-Up Surveys

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Appropriability and the timing of innovation: Evidence from MIT inventions

Research paper thumbnail of An Update to the Individual-Opportunity Nexus

Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Individual-Opportunity Nexus

International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Can genetic factors influence the likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activity?

This article offers an argument for how genetic factors may influence the tendency of people to e... more This article offers an argument for how genetic factors may influence the tendency of people to engage in entrepreneurial activity, and describes four mechanisms through which genetic factors could operate. It also explores ways that researchers can use quantitative and molecular genetics to examine entrepreneurship, and discusses the potential implications of a genetic perspective for management research on entrepreneurship. ©

Research paper thumbnail of Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures?

Strategic Management Journal, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Organization governance form in franchising: efficient contracting or organizational momentum?

Strategic Management Journal, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants of invention commercialization: an empirical examination of academically sourced inventions

Strategic Management Journal, 2007

We examine the attributes of technological inventions that influence their commercialization. Usi... more We examine the attributes of technological inventions that influence their commercialization. Using a unique dataset of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-licensed patents, we show that the likelihood of invention commercialization, which we measure by the ...

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of sensation seeking in the heritability of entrepreneurship

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others?

Research paper thumbnail of When Does Lack of Resources Make New Firms Innovative?

Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the formation of international new ventures: The limits of theories from international business research

Journal of Business Venturing, 1994

SSRN-Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures: The Limits of Theories from Internat... more SSRN-Explaining the Formation of International New Ventures: The Limits of Theories from International Business Research by Patricia Phillips McDougall, Scott Shane, Benjamin M. Oviatt.

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction to the Special Issue on University Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer

Management Science, 2002

... General Terms: Documentation. Collaborative Colleagues: David C. Mowery: colleagues. Scott Sh... more ... General Terms: Documentation. Collaborative Colleagues: David C. Mowery: colleagues. Scott Shane: colleagues. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Copyright © 2009 ACM, Inc. Terms ...

Research paper thumbnail of Measuring entrepreneurship over time

Journal of Business Venturing, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of Fostering Risk Taking in Research and Development: The Importance of a Project's Terminal Value

Research paper thumbnail of Entrepreneurship and occupational choice: Genetic and environmental influences

We applied quantitative genetics techniques to a sample of 347 pairs of monozygotic and 303 pairs... more We applied quantitative genetics techniques to a sample of 347 pairs of monozygotic and 303 pairs of dizygotic twins taken from the MIDUS database to examine the influence of genetic factors on the variation across people in the tendency to be self-employed and to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Organization governance form in franchising: efficient contracting or organizational momentum?

Research paper thumbnail of New Firm Survival: Institutional Explanations for New Franchisor Mortality

Management Science, 1999

Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that new firms fail because entre... more Why do some new firms succeed and others fail? Economists argue that new firms fail because entrepreneurs inefficiently manage production and organizational design (Williamson 1985). Sociologists (e.g., Granovetter 1985) have typically viewed this explanation as undersocialized, and argue that institutional legitimacy must also be considered to explain the survival of new firms. This paper examines the survival of 1292 new

Research paper thumbnail of Genetics, the Big Five, and the tendency to be self-employed

The Journal of applied psychology, 2010

We applied multivariate genetics techniques to a sample of 3,412 monozygotic and dizygotic twins ... more We applied multivariate genetics techniques to a sample of 3,412 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United Kingdom and 1,300 monozygotic and dizygotic twins from the United States to examine whether genetic factors account for part of the covariance between the Big Five personality characteristics and the tendency to be an entrepreneur. We found that common genes influenced the phenotypic correlations between only Extraversion and Openness to Experience and the tendency to be an entrepreneur. Although the phenotypic correlations between the personality characteristics and the tendency to be an entrepreneur were small in size, genetic factors accounted for most of them.

Research paper thumbnail of The Promise of Entrepreneurs Hip as a Field of Research

For a field of social science to have usefulness, it must have a conceptual frame- work that expl... more For a field of social science to have usefulness, it must have a conceptual frame- work that explains and predicts a set of empirical phenomena not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields. To date, the phenomenon of entrepreneurship has ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Kauffman Firm Survey: Results from the Baseline and First Follow-Up Surveys

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Appropriability and the timing of innovation: Evidence from MIT inventions

Research paper thumbnail of An Update to the Individual-Opportunity Nexus

Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Individual-Opportunity Nexus

International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Can genetic factors influence the likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activity?

This article offers an argument for how genetic factors may influence the tendency of people to e... more This article offers an argument for how genetic factors may influence the tendency of people to engage in entrepreneurial activity, and describes four mechanisms through which genetic factors could operate. It also explores ways that researchers can use quantitative and molecular genetics to examine entrepreneurship, and discusses the potential implications of a genetic perspective for management research on entrepreneurship. ©

Research paper thumbnail of Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures?

Strategic Management Journal, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Organization governance form in franchising: efficient contracting or organizational momentum?

Strategic Management Journal, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Determinants of invention commercialization: an empirical examination of academically sourced inventions

Strategic Management Journal, 2007

We examine the attributes of technological inventions that influence their commercialization. Usi... more We examine the attributes of technological inventions that influence their commercialization. Using a unique dataset of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-licensed patents, we show that the likelihood of invention commercialization, which we measure by the ...

Research paper thumbnail of The influence of sensation seeking in the heritability of entrepreneurship

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others?

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