Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of founding team experience (industry and venturing) in new … venture creation. This paper posits the following questions: How does founding team experience influence the likelihood of new … important gap in the literature by unpacking the impact of different types of founding team experiences on venture outcome, and …

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team …, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have …

Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps … disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by modeling two separate heterogeneity dimensions, namely knowledge scope … support for our contention of team heterogeneity as a two-dimensional concept. Results suggest that knowledge disparity …

origin contingent on national culture on these intentions is analyzed. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 focus on a team context and are … based on a team experiment with an entrepreneurial decision making task. Chapter 3 analyzes the team’s decision quality … based on information exchange, experimentally manipulated information uncertainty, and team metacognitive knowledge. In a …