Entrepreneurs need to accumulate different types of resources to take the initial steps to grow their ventures. While much is known about the configurations of resources that improve venture success, less is known on how ventures should initially accumulate resources to begin to exploit valuable...

I investigate how entrepreneurs' choice of first partner influences the likelihood and type second partner and the effect of partner order on outcomes for new ventures in the bio-pharmaceutical industry. Ventures match up with generic resource firms as their first choice partners, while...

Traditional theories of entrepreneurship have been about risk-oriented profit-seeking individuals who identify market opportunities and exploit them to earn profits. Though useful to understand a large part of entrepreneurial activities in modern economies, the focus on profit as the underlying...

The role of founder exit in shaping organizational outcomes is an interesting phenomenon that has attracted research interest in recent years. In the present study, we advance and test theory on the impact of founder exits from new venture teams on firm performance. While exits ease coordination...

We examined how implicit and explicit activation of gender stereotypes affect entrepreneurial intentions of men and women. Based on stereotype activation theory, we hypothesized that men and women would confirm gender stereotypes about entrepreneurs when they are activated implicitly, but they...