Download or read book Three Essays on Entrepreneurial Strategy written by Jarrod Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: resource allocation for academic spinouts. Finally, the third essay examines the strategic decision to withdraw a firm from the IPO premarket. Using the CEO, the decision-maker most responsible for IPO withdrawal, I find that entrepreneurial CEOs (founders) increase a firm's probability of IPO withdrawal. Additionally, I show that founder-led IPO firms are more likely to return to the capital markets after a withdrawal than professional CEOs. However, I show these relationships weaken if the CEO enters entrepreneurship from a publicly traded company. I find strong support for my predictions using 24 years of data on all life sciences firms that filed their intention to become publicly traded with the SEC. The three essays contribute to the entrepreneurial strategy, strategic leadership, and knowledge inheritance literature.

Download or read book Three Essays on Entrepreneurial Strategies written by Simone Santamaria and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Entrepreneurial Strategy and Performance written by Kenny Hwee Seong Ching and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the conditions under which entrepreneurial firms are most apt to succeed. Besides grappling with the multiple strategic choices that they face, these firms also have to address the institutional complexities in their environments. Together these three essays contribute to our understanding of how the challenges associated with addressing these multifaceted environmental conditions impact firm outcomes. The first study examines the process of entrepreneurial strategy making by analyzing the competitive history of the Internet video industry in China. Leveraging a new hand-collected dataset that records activity by all entrants into the Chinese Internet video industry from 2006-2011, this study documents how entrants who adapted to a disadvantageous shift in the environment outperform those firms that chose a strategy that did not require change; and how strategic commitments to user communities can serve as a complementary asset to enhance the resilience of a start-up against disadvantageous shifts in their environment. The second essay considers how the endogenous nature of appropriability impacts entrepreneurial strategy and performance. This study focuses on the entrepreneur's choice between investing their time and scarce resources in ensuring appropriability versus investing in the execution and operation of their fledgling businesses. We investigate these ideas empirically in the context of a unique sample of academic entrepreneurs: within a sample of ventures that could have been developed by either faculty or students (or both), we find that faculty-led ventures are much more closely associated with intellectual property, but are less agile in terms of their start-up and commercialization activities. The third essay examines the impact of local institutional arrangements on firm-level spillover effects from universities. This study provides early evidence suggesting that foreign invested firms collocated with universities in China are more innovative than their domestic counterparts. Furthermore, the performance discrepancy is most apparent among smaller firms. This finding raises some substantial policy implications about public investments in universities when the benefits of such investments are juxtaposed against localized institutional arrangements.

Download or read book Three Essays on Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Sang Kyun Kim (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Entrepreneurship written by Jianhong Xue and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays. In Essay One, I question the conventional wisdom that economic transactions are governed either by the price mechanism or by the authority of the firm. I argue that the exchange of information and knowledge for innovative production does not totally conform to such alternatives of governance. I term such exchanges hidden transactions. Since innovative production takes place inside the mind, individual entrepreneurship is the fundamental force that initializes hidden transactions. Institutional factors that enhance hidden transactions are important. In Essay Two I consider two types of entrepreneurship, conceiving entrepreneurship and performing entrepreneurship, and argue that while conceiving entrepreneurship is largely unobservable performing entrepreneurship can be measured. A confirmatory factor analysis under latent variable modeling is proposed and multiple indicators are used to manifest performing technology entrepreneurship. Results show that the proposed model is plausible. In Essay Three, I argue that the performing entrepreneurship of a region depends on the entrepreneur's regional opportunity set. Four components of the opportunity set include the availability of strategic resources, the ease of combining resources, the ease of founding a firm, and the security of doing business. The OLS model results indicate that R & D investment, anchor firms, appropriate government size, and intellectual property law are important elements of these components.

Download or read book Three Essays on Distribution Strategy and Business Operation written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Drives EEmployees to Start New Businesses Three Essays on Employee Entrepreneurship written by Sedigheh Yeganegi Abarghoei and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most prevalent form of entrepreneurial entry, employee entrepreneurship is worthy of careful consideration-especially since independent businesses created by employees frequently out-perform inexperienced start-ups. Employee entrepreneurship is emerging as a new area of research, receiving increasing attention from a broad spectrum of scholars in entrepreneurship, strategy, and industrial economics. This three-essay dissertation addresses four major gaps in the literature on employee entrepreneurship: the first gap refers to the fragmented state of the research literature (addressed in the first essay); the second is the dearth of empirical research on the moderating effects of institutions (addressed in the second essay); the third gap is the lack of empirical studies investigating whether related or unrelated experiences lead employees to pursue entrepreneurial ventures (also addressed in the second essay); and the fourth is the lack of empirical studies investigating the nature of the knowledge that employees acquire from their parent firms. The first essay in the dissertation is a conceptual paper that reviews the literature, develops a multi-level integrated framework, and suggests avenues for future research. The second essay investigates how employees' experiences with activities related/unrelated to the core technologies of their employers' firms and institutional factors (i.e., intellectual property rights and venture capital availability) affect the likelihood of new business creation by employees. This essay also studies the moderating effects of institutional factors on the relationship between technology relatedness and the likelihood of employee entrepreneurship. The third essay examines the effects of employees' prior ambidexterity experiences, which include both exploration and exploitation experiences in their employers' firms, on the likelihood of employees becoming entrepreneurs. Together, the three essays help to advance the literature by exploring previously neglected areas of research.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Linkage Between Corporate and Business Strategies written by Ji-Ren Lee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents three essays exploring the impact of corporate diversification on a business-unit's (BU's) performance, a research which reflects the linkage between corporate-level and business-level strategies. One distinguishing feature of this research is that it explicitly recognizes two key attributes of competition among diversified firms which have been overlooked by previous research: that is, for diversified firms, competition occurs at the business-unit level, rather than at the corporate-level, and the nature of multimarket operation could have strategic impacts on existing competition. The first essay investigates whether multimarket contact will develop a sense of mutual forbearance between interacting firms and, consequently, affects these firms' strategic behavior and ensuing economic performance. Based on a large-scale database, this research shows that multimarket contact can significantly strengthen a firm's profit-cost margins when oligopolistic coordination is difficult to achieve. In addition, this research provides further evidence to show that multimarket contact enhances significantly industry profitability, stabilizes firms' market shares, and could even become a price umbrella for single-business firms in the same industry. The second essay explores whether diversification will affect a firm's corporate-level commitment of R&D resources to the BUs, and hence affect the ensuing economic performance of the BUs. After controlling for interindustry differences, this research demonstrates that corporate diversification of high-technology firms does affect negatively their R&D investment levels. However, statistically such a commitment reduction in innovative activities does not depress BUs' performance. Further analyses suggest that such a puzzle may be explained by different strategic behaviors of diversified firms relative to single-business firms facing technology opportunities. The last essay provides a preliminary examination on the determinants of the allocation of corporate capital expenditures to the BUs within a diversified firm. Results show that companies tend to maintain a stable pattern of relative capital expenditure for their BUs, and higher past performance leads to higher subsequent commitments of capital resources. Meanwhile, the hypothesis that the allocation of capital resources is based on portfolio planning concept did not receive empirical support in this research.

Download or read book Reconfiguration Strategies Entrepreneurial Entry and Incubation of Nascent Industries written by Mahka Moeen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines firms' entrepreneurial investments in anticipation of entry into a nascent industry. In the first essay, I study the intertwined processes of firm-level economic value capture and industry-level ecosystem formation that underpin incubation of nascent industries. The second essay focuses on the capability antecedents of a firm entry into a nascent industry and makes a distinction between a firm's pre-entry and pre-investment capabilities. In the third essay, I discuss the nature of the capability reconfiguration efforts that are undertaken by firms in anticipation of entry into nascent industries and their differential nature given firms' historical antecedents.

Download or read book Three Essays on IT Individual Group and Organizational Adaptabilities written by Arnaud Gorgeon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three empirical studies that examine, in three different organizational settings, the processes by which organizations, groups and individuals adapt to IT related change.

Download or read book Three essays on venture capital contracting written by Ibolya Schindele and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Marketing Strategy Elements and the Brand Life Cycle in the Pharmaceutical Industry written by Erin Cavusgil and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Industrial Policy Strategy and Entrepreneurship written by Santiago Mingo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation comprises three essays on industrial policy, strategy, and entrepreneurship. The first essay (joint with Tarun Khanna) analyzes the impact of industrial policy in entrepreneurial activty, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness. A second essay analyzes how existing units in manufacturing firms are affected by the acquisition of additional facilities which expand production capacity. The last essay explores how an established organization can ease the emergence and early growth of an new venture in an unfriendly environment.

Download or read book Entrepreneurial Strategic Content written by G. T. Lumpkin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on entrepreneurial strategic content. This title addresses the types of strategies that entrepreneurial companies use to effectively position themselves and gain competitive advantages. It identifies several strategic dilemmas and strategic choices that organizations face in their efforts to be more entrepreneurial.

Download or read book Multinational Enterprises and Performance written by Lars Matysiak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Three Essays on Aligning Supply Chain Strategies with the Business Environment written by Christian Joachim Freiherr von Falkenhausen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: