- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 4
- Disentangling the E...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 28. April 2010
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2010-029
- Schlagwort(e)
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Entrepreneurial teams
New venture performance
Team diversity
Team heterogeneity
- Zusammenfsg.
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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.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; M13 - New Firms; Startups ; L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope