When large firms invest in newly created smallbusinesses, they are engaging in corporate venturing.Corporate venturinghas a cyclical popularity, most recently reaching great heights during thedot-com surge of the 1990s.Following this period, declines in U.S.corporate venturing have occurred due...

Despite its importance as a potential source of variation within industries, little is currently known about the antecedents of new business ideas in large, established firms. While a number of organization and management literatures address, tangentially, issues pertaining to this topic, none...