El objetivo de este trabajo es identificar el capital social que se construye en Jalisco en el sector estratégico de desarrollo, como es el caso del Software. Para lo cual nos apoyamos en las teorías de Coleman (1990), Bourdieu (1980) y Putman (1993). Ya que nos permiten identificar al...

We examine the effect of multiple founders on firm performance. We find that firms with multiple founders exhibit valuation premiums over firms with single-founders or professional managers. In addition, founder teams which have moderate heterogeneity performs best, while too much heterogeneity...

This paper studies how the presence of cross-border as opposed to domestic venture capital investors is associated with the growth of portfolio companies. For this purpose, we use a longitudinal research design and track sales, total assets and payroll expenses in 761 European technology...

We examine the rise of cloud computing and AI in China and their impacts on industry dynamics after the shock to the cost of Internet-based computing power and services. We find that cloud computing is associated with an increase in firm entry, exit and the likelihood of M&A in industries that...

This paper distinguishes entrepreneurial network effects from the firm effects and industry effects that have been the focus of much of the literature about the economics of technological change and the economics of industrial organization. A method of identifying entrepreneurial networks is...

This paper studies how prior professional connections among founding employees predict a new firm's short and medium term success. We apply three employment network measures to a large employer-employee matched Brazilian panel dataset, to find that network structures are strongly predictive of...

Social media have been widely adopted in various organizations. The use of social media for achieving business sustainability and financial outcomes has been addressed in the literature. In the entrepreneurship context, social media have received great attention as the platforms can be one of...

In many facets of life, individuals make evaluations that they often update after consulting with others in their peer networks. But not all individuals have the same positional opportunities for social interaction in a given network, nor the ability and desire to make use of those opportunities...

There is significant and growing interest in entrepreneurship. Notwithstanding this interest, sizable barriers limit our understanding of the phenomenon and, by implication, our understanding of who is most likely to succeed in it. One fundamental challenge we face is the confounded language we...