Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007

Detailed Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Best Paper Awards

OFFICE OF ADVOCACY, U.S. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AWARD FOR THE BEST PAPER EXPLORING THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL BUSINESSES TO THE U.S. ECONOMY OR A PUBLIC POLICY ISSUE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMUNITY

An Empirical Examination of "Barrier To Exit": How Does an Entrepreneur-Friendly Bankruptcy Law Affect Entrepreneurship Development at a Societal Level?
Seung-Hyun Lee, Yasuhiro Yamakawa, and Mike W. Peng…

IRENE M. MCCARTHY AWARD FOR THE BEST PAPER ON THE TOPIC OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY

Resources, Industry Membership, and Firm Performance: The Role of Capability Configurations in Value Creation for IPO-Stage New Ventures
Tim R. Holcomb, Michael Hitt, R. Duane Ireland, and Trevis Certo…

THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WESLEY J. HOWE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC OF CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Absorptive Capacity in New Ventures: Differences among Corporate Ventures and Independent Ventures
Bárbara Larrañeta, Shaker A. Zahra, and J. Luis Galán…

Motivation and Participation in Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Effects of Risk, Effort, and Reward
Erik Monsen, Todd Saxton, and Holger Patzelt…

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS (NFIB) AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH ON THE GENERAL TOPIC OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Exploring the Entrepreneurial Mindset: Feedback and Adaptive Decision-Making
J. Michael Haynie and Dean A. Shepherd…

I. ENTREPRENEURSHIP FINANCING

Technological Diversification, Cumulativeness and Venture Capital Exit: M&A versus IPO
Marianna Makri, Marc Junkunc, and Jonathan T. Eckhardt...

SUMMARIES

Does Overconfidence Affect Entrepreneurial Investment?
Gavin Cassar and Henry Friedman….

Making Do with Less: Firm Growth and Financial Performance under Resource Constraints
Jason R. Fitzsimmons…

What Drives the Capital Structure Of European LBOs?
Oksana Koryak and Laura Nuñez...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Cognitive Responses of Venture Capitalists to Entrepreneur Credibility
Alice J. de Koning and Benjamin M. Oviatt…

II. ANGEL FINANCING

SUMMARIES

Conflicts in Business Angel Networks: An Evolutionary Perspective
Björn Berggren, Andreas Fili, Nicolaus Lundahl, and Lars Silver…

A Virtuous Circle?  Longitudinal Evidence on Informal Investment Activity in the UK
Marc Cowling, Rebecca Harding, Richard Harrison, and Gordon Murray…

Assessing Biases Associated With Business Angel Research: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Size and Direction of Variances between Networked and Representatively Sampled Angels
Ellen Farrell…

Send Me an Angel? Comparing Screening and Final Investment Choices of Informal Investors and Venture Capitalists
Jill Kickul, Paul Steffens, Brett Smith, Jeffrey Sohl, and Todd Johnston…

Knowledge Transference in the Angel-Entrepreneur Relationship
Karla Peterson and William Mayfield…

The Impact of Business Angels on Investee Companies: A Knowledge Perspective
Amparo San José, Juan Roure, Juan Luis Segurado and Rudy Aernoudt…

III. VENTURE CAPITAL

The Joint Influence of Interaction History and Time Horizon on Venture-Capitalist/New-Venture Team Cooperation
Terje Berg-Utby, Roger Sørheim, and Truls Erikson…

Effects of Venture Capital Syndication Networks on Entrepreneurial Success
Jennifer M. Walske, Andrew Zacharakis, and Laurel Smith-Doerr…

Confidence in Cooperative Relations between Entrepreneurs and VCs: The Role of Social and Formal Control Mechanisms
Ronit Yitshaki…

SUMMARIES

Public Sector Influence on Private Fund Behavior: Germany’s Venture Capital Industry
Antonio J. Botelho and Paulo Pfeil…

Determinants of Venture Capital Firms’ Cross-Border Investments
Sofie De Prijcker, Sophie Manigart, and Wouter De Maeseneire...

Social Capitalists: A Longitudinal Study of the Iterative Relationship between Social Capital, Resources and Performance in Venture Capital Startups
Joy Godesiabois…

Private Equity Involvement and Performance of Buy-Out Firms: Entrepreneurial Growth versus Efficiency
Lotte Goossens, Sophie Manigart, and Tom Vanacker…

Syndication and Financial Performance in Venture Capital: The Moderating Role of Desirability as a Syndication Partner
Mikko Jääskeläinen, Markku Maula, and Johanna Pynnä...

Harvesting Start-Ups:  Real Options or the End of Growth?
Jay J. Janney…

Are Some VCs More Likely than Others to Replace the Founder-CEO?
Dmitry Khanin, J. Robert Baum, Raj V. Mahto, and Charles Heller…

Do Venture Capitalists Weigh Their Investment Criteria Differently at the Pre-Investment and Post-Investment Stages?
Dmitry Khanin, J. Robert Baum, and Raj V. Mahto…

Non-Financial Contributions from Venture Capital Firms – A Combined Approach
Morten Landsgård,Roger Sørheim, and L. Øystein Widding…

Agency versus Entrepreneurial Perspectives on the Buyout Cycle: An Empirical Study on Venture Capital Backed Buyout Transactions in the UK
Miguel Meuleman and M. Louise Scholes…

Investment Strategies and Human Capital in Venture Capital Firms
Holger Patzelt, Dodo zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, and Heiko T. Fischer...

Investment Strategies in Transition Economies: An Empirical Study of U.S. Venture Capitalists in China
James Richardson and Charles Chen…

Understanding Business Model and Business Model Risks
Yuwei Shi and Tom Manning…

Learning from Startups: Determinants of Exploratory Knowledge Creation
Anu Wadhwa, Corey Phelps, and Suresh Kotha…

The Growth Value from CVC Portfolio Diversification: Industry and Technology
Yi Yang and V.K. Narayanan…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Different Faces of Uncertainty: The Syndication of VC Investments in New Industries
Dimo Dimov and Hana Milanov...

Diversification and Performance in the Venture Capital Industry:  An Exploration of Leveraging Knowledge Assets
Sharon F. Matusik and Markus Fitza…

Closing the ‘Equity Gap’ in Startup/Seed Investment for ICT Ventures: The Israeli Experience
Jimmy Schwarzkopf, Ronit Yitshaki, Sheri Perelli, and Bo Carlson…

The Role Initial Conditions, Signalling, And Legitimacy Have on the Pursuit and Disbursement of Resources: A Venture Capitalist’s Perspective
Neil Wolff and Rein Peterson…

IV. THE ENTREPRENEUR

The Puzzle of Insular Domains: A Longitudinal Study of Knowledge Structuration and Innovation in Biotechnology Firms
Gerard George, Reddi Kotha, and Yanfeng Zheng…

Entrepreneurial Stress and Long Term Survival: Is There a Causal Link?
Andreas Rauch, Jens Unger, and Nina Rosenbusch…

SUMMARIES

Learning by Failure and Real Options Reasoning in the Entrepreneurial Context: Lesson from Transition Economy
Mariusz Bratnicki, Agata Austen, and Przemys?aw Zbierowski…

Young People – The Torch Bearers of Future UK Entrepreneurship
David Brooksbank, Dylan Jones-Evans, Caleb Kwong, Piers Thompson, and Robert Williams…

Entrepreneuring and the Human Enterprise: Where Private Obsession Meets Public Need
Susan Harmeling and Troy Harting…

Understanding Entrepreneurial Insights
G.T. Lumpkin, Hans Hansen, and Jeremy Short…

Founders’ Plans for Post-Succession Involvement: How Founders Influence the Future Direction of Their Companies through Their Succession Plans
John Perry and Xin Yao…

The Duel Between Two Domains: Does Work and Family Conflict Influence Entrepreneurial Success?
Leon Schjoedt…

Ambitious Nascent Entrepreneurs and National Innovativeness
Kashifa Suddle and Jolanda Hessels…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Is There a Labor Market ‘Penalty’ to Entrepreneurship? The Evolution of Earnings for Business-Owners Who Become Paid Employees
António Miguel Amaral, Rui Baptista, Francisco Lima, and Miguel Preto...

The Decision to Exploit: Do Experienced Entrepreneurs Use Evaluation Criteria Like Venture Capitalists?
 Betty Conklin, Robert Nixon, and Karen Bishop…

Who, How and When to Cope with Role Stress? Coping Strategies Used by Entrepreneurs in New Ventures
Mateja Drnovsek, Daniel Örtqvist, and Joakim Wincent…

Measuring Entrepreneurial Alertness in the Field: Scale Development and Validation
Denis Grégoire, David Williams, and Pamela Barr…

Entrepreneurs' Perception of Success: The Role of Family Status
Rachida Justo, Cristina Cruz, and Julio O. De Castro...

Understanding the Entrepreneurial Process through Paradox – A Multiple Case Study of Singapore’s Serial Entrepreneurs
Pi-Shen Seet…

Who Is The Academic Entrepreneur?
Caroline Wigren, Anna Jenkins, and Clas Wahlbin…

V. ENTREPRENEUR CHARACTERISTICS

Entrepreneurial Exit and Firm Performance
António Miguel Amaral, Rui Baptista, and Francisco Lima...

Knowledge Acquisition Activities, Prior Knowledge and Experience & the Survival of New Firms
John C. Dencker, Marc Gruber, and Sonali Shah…

The Relationship between Entrepreneur Psychological Capital and Well-Being
Keith M. Hmieleski and Jon C. Carr...

Start-Up and Success in Ethnic New Ventures
Gerry Kerr and Francine Schlosser...

Who Am I? Looking Inside the “Entrepreneurial Identity”
Charles Y. Murnieks and Elaine M. Mosakowski…

SUMMARIES

Entrepreneurship and Creative Leadership
Fernando A. Gimenez, Jane M. Ferreira, and Simone C. Ramos...

Entrepreneurs’ Cultural Orientations as Moderators of the Relationships between Entrepreneurs’ Visions and Goals and Their Entrepreneurial Success
Christine König, Lin Xia and  Xianfang Xue...

Focus on Entrepreneurial Exits – Who Should We Be Concerned About?
Hannu T. Niittykangas and Sofia A. Kauko-Valli...

The Entrepreneur’s Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?
Simon C. Parker and Mirjam van Praag...

The Big Five Personality Dimensions: Do the Big Five Affect Entrepreneurial Success at the Personal Level?
Leon Schjoedt and Robert A. Baron…

Entrepreneurial Alertness, Technological Innovations, and New Product and Service Development: Evidence from Two Studies 
Jintong Tang, Patrick J. Murphy, Raman Chadha and Renhong Zhu…

The Entrepreneurial Process and Its Determinants
Roy Thurik, Isabel Grilo and Peter van der Zwan...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Entrepreneurs’ Social Competence and New Venture Success: Evidence on Mediating Mechanisms and Generality of the Effects
Robert A. Baron and Jintong Tang…

Human Capital and High Tech Entrepreneurial Discovery: Beyond the Search Serendipity Continuum
Matthew R. Marvel and Patrick J. Murphy…

Student Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Perceptions of Business Plan Competition
Nareatha L. Studdard… 

Who Is The Entrepreneur?  Prototypical Views of the Entrepreneurial Role across Three Cultures
Xin Yao, Steven Farmer and Kate Kung-McIntyre…

VI. ENTREPRENEURIAL COGNITION

Where Is the Risk?  Availability, Anchoring, and Framing Effects on Entrepreneurial Risk Taking
Saulo D. Barbosa and Alain Fayolle…

Entrepreneurs’ Attitudes towards Failure – An Experiential Learning Approach
Diamanto Politis and Jonas Gabrielsson…

Entrepreneurial Optimism and Experience: Does the Nature of Experience Matter?
Deniz Ucbasaran, Manuel Flores, and Paul Westhead…

An Examination of the Role of Opportunity Cost and Opportunity Value in New Venture Creation
Lee J. Zane, Donna M. DeCarolis, and Marco S. DiRenzo...

SUMMARIES

Prospecting for New Answers to Old Paradoxes in Entrepreneurial Risk Taking
Saulo D. Barbosa and Alain Fayolle…

Role of Incubator in the Entrepreneurship Learning Process
Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini…

“Trying” To Be an Entrepreneur? A “Goal-Specific” Challenge to the Intentions Model
Malin Brännback, Norris Krueger, Alan Carsrud, and Jennie Elfving…

Remembering the Future: Transactive Memory and the Emergence of Organizational Identity in New Entrepreneurial Firms
Peter T. Bryant…

Micro-Foundations of Alertness to Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Alexandra Dawson, Carlo Salvato, and Giovanni Valentini...

Using Systems Concepts to Explore the Issue of Growth in Small Owner-Managed Firms
Paul Donaldson…

Entrepreneurship and the Motivation to Work Hard
Evan J. Douglas and Robyn J. Morris…

Intuitive Perception: As Measured on Repeat Entrepreneurs in the Cambridge Technopol Using Electro-Physiological Instrumentation
Murray Gillin, Raymond T.  Bradley, Mike Atkinson, Frank LaPira, and Rollin McCraty…

Knowledge, Motivation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Experimental Investigation Using Functional Measurement
Scott R. Gordon and Jason R. Fitzsimmons…

The Cognitive Role of New Venture Expertise and Opportunity Alertness in the Acknowledgement of Opportunities: Evidence from Verbal Protocols
Denis Grégoire, Pamela Barr, and David Williams…

Regional Variations in Entrepreneurial Cognitions: Start-Up Intentions of University Students in Spain
Francisco Liñán, David Urbano, and Maribel Guerrero…

Entrepreneurial Action: New Product Development Decisions under Uncertainty
Alexander McKelvie and Veronica Gustafsson…

Serial Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneuring Behaviors as Psychological Addiction
April Murdoch, J. Michael Haynie, and Minet Schindehutte...

Multiple Failure or Repeat Entrepreneurship - A Case Study
Marius Pretorius and Ingrid Le Roux…

The Paradox of Overconfident Entrepreneurs
Anthony Robinson and Alice de Koning…

Dynamic Interactive Effects of Thought, Emotion and Action as Sources of Information in Entrepreneurship
Minet Schindehutte…

Toward a Process Model for Creativity in the Entrepreneurial Context: A Case for Contingent Serendipity
Jeffrey A. Stamp…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

How Entrepreneurs Influence the Evolution of Management Accounting Systems: The Role of Decision-Making Style and Overconfidence
David A. Bruce and Helen Thorne…

The Cultural Consequences of Opportunity Recognition and Exploitation – The Case of Transnational Entrepreneurs vs. Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Victor Z.Y. Huang, Frank W. Roche, Dermot Ryan, Tom Esselman, and Liu Goggin…

Regulatory Focus, Opportunity Recognition and Creativity:  An Experimental Investigation
Javier Monllor, David J. Hansen, Diane Sullivan, and Kelly Shaver…

The Role of Cognitive Appraisals in Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation
Isabell Welpe and Matthias Spörrle…

VII. THE ENTREPRENEUR and NETWORKS

Who Will Be An Entrepreneur? How Cultural Mechanisms and Social Network Structure Together Influence Entrepreneurial Participation
Kim Klyver, Kevin Hindle, and Thomas Schøtt…

Networks, Networking Activity, and Organizational Emergence
Erno T. Tornikoski and Scott L. Newbert…

SUMMARIES

Virtual Corporate Entrepreneurship Teams: Does Culture And Do Communities Of Practice Help?
Heidi Bertels, Peter Koen, and Elko Kleinschmidt…

The Development of Human and Social Capital by Nascent Academic Entrepreneurs
Simon Mosey, Deniz Ucbasaran, Andy Lockett, Hannah Noke, and Iris Vanaelst…

VIII. WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Institutional Logics: Gender and Business Creation across GEM Countries
Amanda Elam and Siri Terjesen...

What Do Women (And Men) Want? Entrepreneurial Expectancies of Women and Men Nascent Entrepreneurs
Tatiana S. Manolova, Candida G. Brush, and Linda F. Edelman...

SUMMARIES

Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Intentions and Business Start-Up Activities
Gry Agnete Alsos, Stijn Bruyneel and Sara Carter…

Women Entrepreneurs’ Business Goals and Performance: In Harmony?
Maika Valencia, Laura Lamolla, and Jose E. Amorós...

IX. ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SUMMARIES

Defining Indigenous Entrepreneurship as a Research Field: Discovering and Critiquing the Emerging Canon
Kevin Hindle and Peter Moroz…

Entrepreneurial Activity of Immigrants Versus Natives in Spain: Are Immigrants More Enterprising than Natives?
Nahikari Irastorza and Iñaki Peña…

Migrant and Non-Migrant Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom: Individual, Local and Regional Effects On Quantity and Quality
Jonathan Levie, Mark Hart, Michael Anyadike-Danes, and Rebecca Harding…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Foreignness and Newness as Ethnic Advantages: Evidence from Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Network Marketing Organizations
Xiaohua Lin, Mary Han, and Derek Hassay…

X. THE ORGANIZATION

Celebrity Entrepreneurship: Insights for New Venture Strategy
Erik Hunter, Per Davidsson, and Helén Andersson…

Short Term Sacrifices for Long Term Benefits: A Look at High Growth Firms
Moren Levesque and Maria Minniti…

SUMMARIES

Exploiting Exploration:  An Analysis of the Impact of Phase 1 SBIR Awards on Subsequent Award Activity
Michael P. Ciuchta…

When Learning Can Hurt Your Performance: Market Learning Through Expansion, Modification and Contraction in Technology-Based Ventures
Anton Danielsen and Annaleena Parhankangas…

The Role of Resources and Experience on the Success of Film Projects
Michael J. Mannor, Yuri Mishina, Jamal Shamsie, and Federico Aime…

Entrepreneurs in Academe: An Exploration of Institutional Incentives and Life Scientists’ Entrepreneurial Efforts
Petra Moog…

The Role of Firm and Managerial Characteristics in Reducing the Severity of Adverse Events in Young Firms
Stuart Napshin and Donna M. DeCarolis…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Firm Reputation in a Context of Low Familiarity
Rebecca Reuber and Eileen Fischer...

Entrepreneurial Cognition and Franchisee Expertise
Isaac H. Smith, Kristie K. Seawright, and Ronald K. Mitchell…

Growing, Growing, Grown – Measuring the Enterprise Growth
Pekka Stenholm…

A Spatial Model of Entrepreneurship and Growth
Zuoquan Zhao…

XI. TEAMS

Homophily and Resource-Seeking Behavior in New Venture Network Formation
Elissa Grossman, Helena Yli-Renko, and Ramkumar Janakiraman...

The Impact of Past Performance on the Exit of Team Members in Young Firms: The Role of Team Composition
Karin Hellerstedt, Howard Aldrich, and Johan Wiklund…

SUMMARIES

A Regulatory Focus Perspective on Teams Engaged In an Entrepreneurial Task: A Repeated Measures Study
Asad Aziz and Maw-Der Foo…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Change and Stability of Employment Models in Growing New Ventures: A Simultaneous Examination of Core Team Imprinting, Structural Inertia, and Adaptive Pressures
Aegean Leung…

XII. GOVERNANCE

Founders, Governance, and Firm Valuation:  Does the Market Perceive Psychological Ownership? 
Jonathan D. Arthurs, Lowell Busenitz, David Townsend, and Kun Liu…

SUMMARIES

Entrepreneurship vs. Privatization: The Case of Slovenia
Richard T. Bliss, Lidija Polutnik, and Marko Pahar…

What Fit Matters?  Effects of Employment Models on Employee Outcomes in Entrepreneurial Firms
Aegean Leung and Sankalp Chaturvedi…

An Empirical Test on the Effect of New Firm’s Legal Form on Venture Survival
Iñaki Peña and Saioa Arando...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Structuring Executive Compensation in Entrepreneurial Firms:  An Optimal Incentives Perspective
Joshua Aaron, Louis Marino, and Brandon Cline…

Structural Separation and Corporate Venturing: The Moderating Effects of Formal and Informal Integration Mechanisms
J. Henri Burgers, Justin J.P. Jansen, Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch, and Henk W. Volberda…

XIII. STRATEGY

Causation and Effectuation:  Measurement Development and Validation
Gaylen N. Chandler, Dawn R. DeTienne, and Troy V. Mumford…

Risk Taking, Aspiration Levels and the Evolution of New Ventures
Frédéric Delmar and Karl Wennberg…

Re-Examining and Extending Penrose’s Growth Theory: Updating Penrose for the 21^st Century
Andy Lockett, Johan Wiklund, and Per Davidsson…

Patterns of Performance in New Firms: The Relative Effects of Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity
Erik Wetter and Frédéric Delmar…

SUMMARIES

High Growth vs. Normal Growth Entrepreneurial Firms
Erlend Bullvaag…

Growth Strategies of Young Technology Based Firms
Bart Clarysse, Johan Bruneel, and Michael Wright…

The Road to Legitimacy: A Study of Startups and Their Established Competitors in the Australian Wine Industry
Clay Dibrell, Aaron Johnson, Peter Davis, Ken Moores, and Justin Craig…

Didn’t Expect That! Surprise Events, Responses and Outcomes in Entrepreneurial Firms
Yan Gong, Ted Baker, Dale T. Eesley, and Anne S. Miner…

“Take and Give” versus” Knowledge Catching” – Empirical Analysis of How Firms Manage Knowledge
Carolin Haeussler…

The Relationship among Factors Reported At Business Registration and Subsequent Early Business Performance
Espen J. Isaksen…

The Effect of Ownership and Governance Change on the Strategy of Family Firms: Evidence from Management Buy-Outs
M. Louise Scholes, Hans Bruining, and Andrew Burrows…

The Role of Financial Bootstrapping Mentality for Handling Liability of Newness
Joakim Winborg…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Exploration and Exploitation under Resource Scarcity: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Succession
Hamid Bouchikhi and Erno T. Tornikoski…

Start-Up Conditions and Development Paths of New Technology-Based Firms
Jan Brinckmann, Sören Salomo, and Hans Georg Gemuenden…

The Knowledge Building Dilemma of Technology Based New Firms
Dzidziso S. Kamuriwo and Charles Baden-Fuller…

Transfer of Technological Skills during a Merger: An Analysis in the French Information Technology Sector
Audrey Missonier and Katherine Gundolf…

Acquisition as a Growth Strategy for New Ventures
Rodney Shrader and Javier Monllor…

XIV. FAMILY ENTERPRISE

Succession, Professionalization and the Staying Power of “Familiness”: A Longitudinal Study of Management Buyouts of Family Firms
Carole Howorth, Michael Wright, and Paul Westhead…

SUMMARIES

Sustaining Innovation in Family Businesses: A Business History Perspective
Carole Howorth, Mary Rose, and Eleanor Hamilton…

Women-Owned Family Businesses in Transitional Economies
Jill Kickul, Lisa Gundry, and Tatiana Iakovleva…

Understanding the Process of Creating, Maintaining and ‘Reproducing’ Family Business
Wing Lam…

XV. THE ORGANIZATION and NETWORKS

Building Trust: A Matter of Proximity?
Johan Bruneel, André Spithoven, and Annelies Maesen…

SUMMARIES

Microprocesses of Opportunity Recognition in Dynamic Networks
Oana Branzei and Michael Valente...

The Effect of Alliance Portfolio Diversity on Biotech Firms’ Exit
Olga Bruyaka…

Organizational Reputation and New Ventures: Firm Awareness of Credit Ratings and Its Impact on Firm Performance
Dale T. Eesley…

Social Capital and the Modern Incubator: A Comparison of In-Group and Out-Group Social Networks
Benson Honig and Tomas Karlsson…

XVI. ENVIRONMENT

SUMMARIES

Why Do Small Firms Produce the Entrepreneurs?
Simon C. Parker…

Catastrophic Environmental Disequilibrium and New Venture Survivors: A Search for Evidence of Schumpeter’s Entrepreneurial Engine
Sheryllynn Roberts…

Explaining Preferences and Involvement in Self-Employment: New Perspectives on the Role of Gender
Ingrid Verheul, Roy Thurik and Isabel Grilo...

Schumpeter’s Plea: Historical Approaches to the Study of Entrepreneurship
R. Daniel Wadhwani and Geoffrey Jones...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Symbiotic Entrepreneurship in the Eurozone
Leo Dana, Frank Lasch, and Annabelle Jaouen…

XVII. OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION

SUMMARIES

Linking Regional Conditions to Individual Entrepreneurial Behavior
Niels Bosma and Veronique Schutjens…

The Invisible Hand of Corruption: What Matters for Entrepreneurial Decisions on Informality in Bulgaria?
Nikolinka Fertala and Todor Yalamov…

Opportunity: An 11-Letter Word
David J. Hansen and Rodney Shrader…

The Dynamics of Entrepreneurial Narratives of Opportunity
Elaine M. Mosakowski…

Does Systematic Search Generate More Value in Time and Space?
Pankaj C. Patel and James O. Fiet…

The Many Faces of an Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Exploration and Exploitation in the Quest for New Ideas
Luis Vives and Silviya Svejenova Nedeva…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

The Financial Cost of Errors in Venture Selection and Launch Timing
David C. Croson…

Do Actual Outcomes Justify Writing a Business Plan Either for Educating Students or for Starting Real Ventures?
Julian E. Lange, Li Hong, Narayanan Seshadri, Siddharth Tenneti, and William D. Bygrave…

XVIII. INDUSTRY

The Benefits (Or Not) of Clusters: Evidence from the United Kingdom
Stephen Chen…

SUMMARIES

Where Do Slack Resources Matter Most? A Configurational Approach
Steven W. Bradley and Dean A. Shepherd…

The Impact of Sector Role
Margaret Dalziel and Shengnan Zhang…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

The Importance of Industry Characteristics for Venture Performance: A Meta-Analysis
Nina Rosenbusch, Andreas Bausch, Andreas Rauch, and Jens Unger...

XIX. MACRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

SUMMARIES

Entrepreneurship in Prospect: Using Metaphors to Identify Cultural Perceptions amongst Young Europeans
Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd, Sarah Jack, Alistair Anderson, and Stavros A. Drakopoulos…

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Individual and Country-Level Determinants of Growth Aspiration in New Ventures
Erkko Autio and Zoltan Acs...

Are Cultural Attitudes a Capital for Entrepreneurship? A Four-Country Comparative Study
Shelly Lev–Koren, Miri Lerner, and Mina Westman…

XX. INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Effect of Upstream and Downstream Internationalization on the Acquisition of Market and Technological Knowledge: The Moderating Role of Prior Knowledge
Lucia Naldi and Shaker A. Zahra…

SUMMARIES

Relationship Strategies; Explaining Idiosyncrasies in Entrepreneurs’ Internationalisation; (Not Traits, Not Rates, but ‘Mates’)
Ted Fuller and Telma Barbosa…

Self-Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Regions
Antonio Golpe and André Van Stel...

East Meet West or East Plus West? The Emergence of “Sea Turtle” Chinese Entrepreneurs and Their Role in Innovation and Technology Transfer
Victor Z.Y. Huang and Frank W. Roche…

Network Composition and Speed of New Venture Internationalization during Economic Transition: A Theoretical Model
Andreea Kiss and Wade Danis…

Going Out from the Start? Patterns and Performance of Spanish Born Globals
Jose Luis M. Marin Arandia, Silviya Svejenova Nedeva, Montse Olle Valls, and Marcel Planellas Arán…

The Effects of Corruption on Entrepreneurial Activity: A Cross-Country Study
Dara Szyliowicz and R. Daniel Wadhwani…

Indirect Internationalization of Small Ventures: A Development and Test of Two Theories
Siri Terjesen and Jolanda Hessels...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

From Traders to Entrepreneurs: Micro-Enterprise Growth in a Developing Economy in Africa
Carol Dalglish…

Capability Interactions and Resource-Based Constraints within International Entrepreneurship: Is There a Logic for International Sourcing?
Carsten Zimmermann…

XXI. CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Entrepreneurial Learning Processes in Academic Spin-Offs
Petra Dickel, Anke Rasmus, and Achim Walter...

SUMMARIES

The Dynamic Capability Construct and Its Operationalization
Gry Agnete Alsos, Odd Jarl Borch, Elisabet Ljunggren, and Einar Lier Madsen…

Measuring Corporate Entrepreneurship and Relating It to Performance: What Really Matters for Fast Growth and Superior Effects?
Mariusz Bratnicki and Wojciech Dyduch...

Measuring the Effect of Family Ideology on Family Business Performance
Alberto Gimeno, Marcel Planellas Arán, Gaston Labadie, and Willem Saris

Opportunity Recognition (Or) and Organizational Performance in the Military
Fredric Kropp, Roxanne Zolin, and Noel J. Lindsay…

Firm-Level Entrepreneurship in Mature Industries: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Salvatore Sciascia, Fernando Alberti, and Carlo Salvato...

INTERACTIVE PAPERS

Model of Corporate Entrepreneurship: Application of Structural Equation Modelling
Broto Bhardwaj, Sudhir Jain, Sushil Sushil, and Kiran Momaya…

Strategic Entrepreneurship: Linking Strategy to Outcome in Radical Innovation Projects
Astrid Heidemann Lassen and Bjørge Tiemenes Laugen…

Opportunity Recognition and Exploitation in Online-Communities
Christoph Hienerth and Christopher Lettl…

An Amplitutude-Frequency Framework for Corporate Entrepreneurship
Simon Mak and David C. Croson…

Intercorporate Structural Holes and Patterns of Corporate Entrepreneurship
Erik Noyes…

XXII. PUBLIC POLICY

Norms Surrounding Business Plans and Their Effect on Entrepreneurial Behavior
Tomas Karlsson and Benson Honig…

SUMMARIES

Incubators and Market Failures: Designs for an Entrepreneurial Economy
Alejandro S. Amezcua…