Sociology

We examine consequences of team stability and change on the time new ventures take to achieve various organizing milestones. We propose two competing hypotheses: 1) Stable teams indicate greater coordination and positively contribute to achieving certain founding events and 2) Teams that...

We use status characteristics theory to examine the ways in which members of startup teams work together toward establishing new businesses. We hypothesize that team members were most likely to contribute high levels of assistance when their own status and the status of their teammates are high....

Academic research has become increasingly collaborative, not just in the hard sciences and engineering but also in the social sciences. In this paper, we review studies that have documented this increasing collaboration, showing that collaboration, especially in the form of co-authorship, has...

In this paper, we extend our previous research by investigating the stability of start-up teams and its impact on reaching operating status. Using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), we analyze a nationally representative cohort of nascent entrepreneurs over three observation...

Previous research has emphasized the positive impact of supportive informal relations on workers in various occupational settings. Such support seems particularly important for workers who aspire to be self-employed, running their own businesses. Existing theory, however, offers little guidance...

We investigate the impact of past performance and team composition on exits of members from entrepreneurial teams. Not only does the homophily principle guide team formation, but it also seems to drive exits from teams. Our findings suggest that greater internal diversity along some but not all...