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. …

industries in order to gain insights into the primary forces governing the agglomeration of industries. Spinoffs, which are firms …

Spinoffs firms 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 …

Most existing models of employee spinoffs assume they are driven by a desire to implement new ideas. However, history … is replete with examples of spinoffs that were launched to continue with old ideas that their parents were in the process … of abandoning. We develop a model of technology choice in which spinoffs may form to implement new or old technologies. A …

The theory predicts that spinoffs of successful parents are more successful than others. The success of the parents can … paper, the survival chances of spinoffs in the German automobile industry regarding the success of their parents will be … investigated. Therefore it is differentiated between spinoffs of old parents and spinoffs of innovative parents. The results of the …

are most likely to spawn spinoffs, when they are most likely to spawn them, and the relationship between the quality of … the parent firm and its spinoffs. Deeper investigations into the causes of spinoffs have highlighted the importance of …