investigated in the literature. However, the role of teams for spinoffs has received little scholarly attention. On one hand … emergence of different types of spinoffs depending on specific organizational arrangements. …

Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature … identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff … process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas do not always lead to spinoffs. This study brings individual level …

We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs … increases the rate of spinoffs from original firms. Indeed, if employers have all the bargaining power vis-à-vis their employees …, optimal entry of original firms and all subsequent employee spinoffs is achieved, despite the fact that the original firm can …