7. Coming from good stock: Career histories and new venture formation

By Diane Burton, Jesper B. Sørensen, Christine M. Beckman. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurial Geographies: Support Networks in Three High-Technology Industries (2005, background): “In one of the few studies that differentiated between startups that received and did not receive venture capital, Burton, Sørensen, and Beckman (2002) showed that the management team’s graduation from elite research universities had a significant positive effect on the ability to attract venture…”
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER THROUGH INHERITANCE: SPIN- OUT GENERATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND SURVIVAL (2004, background): “Employees of knowledge-rich firms thus benefit from enhanced “entrepreneurial capital” (Aldrich, Renzulli, & Langton, 1998), which facilitates mobilization of the resources necessary to undertake an entrepreneurial venture (Burton et al., 2002; Higgins & Gulati, 2003).”
Thinking About Technology: Applying a Cognitive Lens to Technical Change (2008, background): “Even start-up firms with no history have founders whose unique perspectives become imprinted in the firm (Beckman, 2006; Burton et al., 2002).”
FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH: OPPORTUNITY PERCEPTION AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2003, background): “Existing employees also may benefit from contacts with important constituents that can help them mobilize the resources necessary to begin operations (Borjas, 1986; Burton, Sorensen & Beckman, 2002; Evans & Leighton, 1986; Stuart & Sorenson, 2003).”
The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers: Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs (2011, background): “…of the parent organization from which the new venture is spawned likely has substantial influence on the future destiny of the spinoff (Burton et al., 2002; Elfenbein et al., 2010), in relation to both technological knowledge (Malerba and Orsinego, 1993) and other knowledge such as…”
Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public (2007, background): “Team members bring a set of experiences and contacts from prior jobs that can benefit the new firm (Burton et al., 2002).”
How patenting informs VC investors - The case of biotechnology (2014, background): “…with a prominent partner (Stuart, Hoang and Hybels, 1999), their industrial and entrepreneurial experience (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1990; Burton, Sorensen, and Beckman, 2002; Hsu, 2007), certain top management team characteristics (Zhang and Wiersema, 2009; Higgins and Gulati, 2006), or…”
Resources as dual sources of advantage: Implications for valuing entrepreneurial‐firm patents (2013, unknown): “Finally, a major strand of the entrepreneurship and organizations literature argues that founders leave an indelible mark on firms through the structures, policies, and culture they institute in the early period of new venture development (e.g., Burton, Sorensen, and Beckman, 2002).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “At the individual level, Burton et al. (2002) found that new fi rms started by founders from entrepreneurially prominent prior employers attract more external fi nancing for their ventures, and Higgins and Gulati (2003) showed that private fi rms with high-status executives attracted more…”
Experienced entrepreneurial founders, organizational capital, and venture capital funding (2007, background): “It is worth stressing that few prior studies empirically examine the role of prior start-up founding experience (see Burton et al., 2002; Baum and Silverman, 2004; Gompers et al., in press for exceptions); many related studies use prior work experience in start-ups, particularly in the literature…”
The Process of Creative Construction: Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth (2007, unknown): “At the organizational level, while extant research has examined the effect of parent status and capabilities on the KSSE (Agarwal et al., 2004; Burton et al., 2002; Lockett et al., 2005; Louis et al., 1989; Shane and Stuart, 2002; Shane, 2004; Zucker et al., 1997), additional factors, such as team c”
What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions (2019, background): “…accelerator selection decisions are influenced by demographic factors in addition to gender, we also control for the age, prior management experience (Baum and Silverman, 2004); Beckman et al., 2007), and prior entrepreneurial experience (Burton et al., 2002; Hsu, 2007) of the lead entrepreneur.”