E. Pahnke, David G. Sirmon, Jen Rhymer, Joanna T. Campbell
Research Summary: Successful exits are important outcomes for young technology firms. Research has investigated how individual resources affect exit, but both foundational RBV scholarship and newer microfoundations work suggest the need to examine resource configurations in specific contexts. Using an abductive approach and fsQCA methodology, we explore how resource configurations affect exit in the U.S. minimally invasive medical device industry. We find no single resource is necessary or sufficient for exit. Instead, we find four unique equifinal configurations of resources that are sufficient to support exit in certain contexts. Further, these configurations are largely replicated when we distinguish specific exit modes (IPO vs. acquisition). This study advances growing conversations on the role of resource configurations in entrepreneurship with an emphasis on interdependence, complexity, and equifinality of exit. Managerial Summary: New firms' early resource portfolios are powerful determinants of their future success. No theory exists, however, to predict if or how the combinations of these resources affect young technology ventures' abilities to achieve a successful exit — an outcome important to founders and early investors. In this study, we utilize fsQCA to explore this issue on a sample of startups in a segment of
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{"title":"Fintech and banks as complements in microentrepreneurship","authors":"A. Adbi, Siddharth Natarajan","doi":"10.1002/sej.1470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1470","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42074227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Davidsson, J. Recker, Dominic Chalmers, S. Carter
Research Summary: The two premises that underpin this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success are that all environmental changes provide positive potentials for some ventures, and that this has been under-emphasized in past theory and research. After stating these premises and illustrating how present research treats the environment, we proceed to explain how the five articles selected for the special issue advance our thinking in this domain. We then broaden our discussion to how future entrepreneurship research can make further progress by studying interaction among environmental changes as well as their links to entrepreneurial agents, contexts (sectoral, spatial, organizational, etc.) and the entrepreneurial artifact (emerging venture). Throughout, the focus is on the enabling rather than constraining role of environmental changes. Managerial Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic, the digital revolution, and the sustainability transition forced by climate change demonstrate significant business impact of environmental changes, including potentials for new business initiatives. This editorial and the five vanguard articles included in this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success outline how future research can develop better theory and evidence on this important topic. The articles address matters ranging from how COVID-19 facilitated some technology firms' recruiting and reignited media firms' dormant initiatives to how environmental degradations sparked entrepreneurial ecosystem development in Kenya, how the level of environmental dynamism at a venture's birth impact its current ability to benefit from change, and the consequences of passing on potentials provided by environmental change.
{"title":"Environmental change, strategic entrepreneurial action, and success: Introduction to a special issue on an important, neglected topic","authors":"P. Davidsson, J. Recker, Dominic Chalmers, S. Carter","doi":"10.1002/sej.1464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1464","url":null,"abstract":"Research Summary: The two premises that underpin this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success are that all environmental changes provide positive potentials for some ventures, and that this has been under-emphasized in past theory and research. After stating these premises and illustrating how present research treats the environment, we proceed to explain how the five articles selected for the special issue advance our thinking in this domain. We then broaden our discussion to how future entrepreneurship research can make further progress by studying interaction among environmental changes as well as their links to entrepreneurial agents, contexts (sectoral, spatial, organizational, etc.) and the entrepreneurial artifact (emerging venture). Throughout, the focus is on the enabling rather than constraining role of environmental changes. Managerial Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic, the digital revolution, and the sustainability transition forced by climate change demonstrate significant business impact of environmental changes, including potentials for new business initiatives. This editorial and the five vanguard articles included in this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success outline how future research can develop better theory and evidence on this important topic. The articles address matters ranging from how COVID-19 facilitated some technology firms' recruiting and reignited media firms' dormant initiatives to how environmental degradations sparked entrepreneurial ecosystem development in Kenya, how the level of environmental dynamism at a venture's birth impact its current ability to benefit from change, and the consequences of passing on potentials provided by environmental change.","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48147498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic leadership in liminal space: Framing exploration of digital opportunities at hierarchical interfaces","authors":"F. Putra, K. Pandza, S. Khanagha","doi":"10.1002/sej.1465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45220850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate venture capital contributions to strategic renewal: Neglected paths and barriers","authors":"Erwin Danneels, Danny Miller","doi":"10.1002/sej.1463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45716986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"External enablers and entrepreneurial ecosystems: The brokering role of the anchor tenant in capacitating grassroots ecopreneurs","authors":"Norma Juma, Joy Olabisi, Eliada Griffin-EL","doi":"10.1002/sej.1462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49506152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Born into chaos: How founding conditions shape whether ventures survive or thrive when experiencing environmental change","authors":"D. Motley, Charles E. Eesley, W. Koo","doi":"10.1002/sej.1461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45378127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accessing human capital resources for entrepreneurial endeavors through social networks: The implications of strong tie superiority, social media, and heterogeneous human capital","authors":"Mo Chen, Ryan W. Angus, H. Herrick, J. Barney","doi":"10.1002/sej.1459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46805095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The signaling effect of entrepreneurship subsidies on initial public offering investor valuation: An anticorruption campaign as a quasi‐natural experiment","authors":"Jin Chen, Qian Lu, C. Heng, B. Tan","doi":"10.1002/sej.1460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1460","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43205716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}