Disentangling the effects of new venture team functional heterogeneity on new venture performance

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Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by modeling two separate heterogeneity dimensions, namely knowledge scope and knowledge disparity. Analyzing unique data on functional experiences of the members of 337 start-up teams, we find support for our contention of team heterogeneity as a two-dimensional concept. Results suggest that knowledge disparity negatively relates to both start-ups' entrepreneurial and innovative performance. In contrast, we find knowledge scope to positively affect entrepreneurial performance, while it shows an inverse U-shaped relationship to innovative start-up performance.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2010,029

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Entrepreneurship ; New Firms; Startups ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
• Thema: Entrepreneurial teams ; New venture performance ; Team heterogeneity ; Team diversity ; Unternehmer ; Gruppenarbeit ; Wissen ; Unternehmensgründung ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cantner, Uwe ; Goethner, Maximilian ; Stuetzer, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (wo): Jena
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/32628
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ