Founding the Future: Path Dependence in the Evolution of Top Management Teams from Founding to IPO

By Christine M. Beckman, M. Burton. Organ. Sci., 2008

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Unlocking Founding Team Prior Shared Experience: A Transactive Memory System Perspective (2012, background): “, 2005), and founding team memberships do change over time (Beckman and Burton, 2008).”
Strategic Renewal of Organizations (2009, background): “Moreover, once entrepreneurial ventures become profitable enterprises, they may face the challenges and opportunities of strategic renewal (Beckman and Burton 2008).”
Social, Behavioral, and Cognitive Influences on Upper Echelons During Strategy Process (2016, background): “For example, Beckman and Burton (2008) look at the influence of founder experience on start-ups’ early decisions and the influence of these decisions on subsequent top manager backgrounds.”
Financial Wealth, Socioemotional Wealth, and IPO Underpricing in Family Firms: A Two-stage Gamble Model (2017, background): “By performing duediligence, they can certify issuer quality (Titman & Trueman, 1986) and increase the likelihood of issue oversubscription (Benveniste & Spindt, 1989; Sherman & Titman, 2002), thereby helping family owners maintain control by preferentially allocating shares to smaller investors.”
“What’s Past Is Prologue” (2015, background): “Entrepreneurial researchers have focused more on new venture performance (Delmar & Shane, 2004; Gao et al., 2010; Zheng, 2012), with an emphasis on time to milestones, such as venture capital funding (Beckman et al., 2007; Beckman & Burton, 2008) and IPOs (Baron & Hannan, 2002; Hannan et al., 2006).”
Acquisitions As Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry (2010, unknown): “…other researchers have similarly highlighted how idiosyncratic interfirm conventions such as information channels, leadership conventions, and role types, which become established early in organizations, led to institutional persistence (Beckman & Burton, 2008; Burton & Beckman, 2007; David, 1994).”
Hybrid Vigor: Securing Venture Capital by Spanning Categories in Nanotechnology (2014, background): “…diversity of experience among a firm’s managers (Eisenhardt & Schoonhoven, 1990) or the completeness of its team with regard to business functions (Beckman & Burton, 2008), we suggest that expertise in scientific research versus technology commercialization is also an important consideration for…”
IPO Research in Management and Entrepreneurship: Moving the Agenda Forward (2009, background): “Because these individuals often joined during the early stages of development, the firms they lead not only reflect the strategies they enact, but may also embody Certo et al. 1351 their values, ideals, and beliefs (Baum, Locke, & Smith, 2001; Beckman & Burton, 2008).”
Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box (2009, background): “The concept or imprinting (Beckman & Burton, 2008; Boeker, 1989; Johnson, 2007; Stinchcombe, 1965) figures prominently among approaches that seem to address a process very similar to organizational path dependence.”
Top management teams and the performance of entrepreneurial firms (2013, background): “Still others succeed when they have savvy strategies or top-notch employees (e.g., Beckman and Burton 2008; Eesley and Roberts 2012).”