The impact of network capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation on university spin-off performance

By A. Walter, M. Auer, Thomas Ritter. 2006

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

Entrepreneurial orientation and SME international performance: The mediating role of networking capability and experiential learning (2019, background): “Resource and market intelligence sharing can further optimise resource exchange and decrease the risk of failure in foreign markets (Chen and Jaw, 2014) as well as facilitate inter-firm collaboration (Walter et al., 2006).”
Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: the mediating role of functional performances (2018, background): “Network orientation and relationships are generally found to strengthen the relationship between EO and firm performance (Walter et al., 2006; Stam and Elfring, 2008; Zhang and Zhang, 2012).”
Network-based Research in Entrepreneurship: A Decade in Review (2015, background): “A study of university spin-offs (Walter, Auer, and Ritter, 2006) showed that a firm’s networking capability (NC) positively relates to its performance as measured by sales growth.”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, positive): “For example, using a sample of 149 university spin-offs, Walter, Auer, and Ritter (2006) find that a spin-off ’s performance is positively associated with its network capability.”
The downside of being ‘up’: entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect and firm performance (2011, methodology): “Sales growth rate was measured in the same manner as in previous studies, by calculating the average rate of growth for each fi rm over the most recent fi ve-year period (Covin, Green, and Slevin, 2006; Florin, Lubatkin, and Schulze, 2003; Walter, Auer, and Ritter, 2006).”
The Yin and Yang of entrepreneurship: Gender differences in the importance of communal and agentic characteristics for entrepreneurs' subjective well-being and performance (2019, background): “Creativity is intimately linked to the new venture creation and development process (Ward, 2004).”
Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery (2018, background): “For example, Walter, Auer, and Ritter (2006) proposed and defined a spin-off firm's abilities to initiate, maintain, and utilize relationships with various external partners.”