The Fragile Success of Team Start-ups

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This article describes the benefits and pitfalls of starting a firm with an entrepreneurial team, drawing on a longitudinal empirical analysis of the life course of 90 team start-ups and 1196 solo start-ups in the Netherlands. In the first three years of their existence, team start-ups perform better than solo start-ups on several success indicators. However, after this start phase, entrepreneurial teams face particular problems in realizing further growth. These team-specific bottlenecks can even threaten firm survival. In later life course phases we found a clear distinction between entrepreneurial teams with stagnating growth and teams that succeeded in solving these problems and went on to realize further growth.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; No. 1705

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; New Firms; Startups ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Personnel Economics: Labor Management
• Thema: entrepreneurial teams ; start-ups ; firm growth ; life course analysis ; Unternehmensgründung ; Unternehmer ; Gruppenarbeit ; Unternehmensentwicklung ; Niederlande

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Stam, Erik ; Schutjens, Veronique
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20007
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ