This study examines whether the serial entrepreneurial experience of founders contributes to improved overall performance using a sample of Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) innovative firms that entered the U.S. financial markets since August 2003. Based on subsample analysis,...

Familienunternehmen gelten in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung als besonders innovativ und als "Hidden Champions" der deutschen Wirtschaft. In jüngster Zeit widmen sich Forscher vermehrt der Überprüfung dieser These und kommen zu diametral unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Einerseits wird...

The article studies the relation between the 1997 crisis and the diversification of the 5 main business groups in Colombia. The entropy measure of diversification did not fall during the crisis, which agrees with the risk-sharing hypothesis of business groups. Diversification fell after the...

We document that labor relationships at founder firms are less acrimonious than at non-founder firms. Founder-firms are less likely to be unionized and employees at non-unionized founder-firms are less likely to attempt to unionize. Further, among firms that are unionized, labor at founder-firms...

The literature considers firms seeking finance through an initial public offering (IPO) as entrepreneurial. But are they? We hypothesize that firms in the latter stage of industry life-cycle, or late bloomer firms as less innovative, proactive, and risk-taking, signal entrepreneurial orientation...

Tests of Leland and Pyle's (1977) signaling model in the public setting face a number of empirical challenges. We revisit the implications of their model with new evidence from a setting in which entrepreneurs sell their firms in private transactions. In this setting, it is common for sellers to...