Assessing the Relationship between Human Capital and Firm Performance: Evidence from Technology–Based New Ventures

By Rodney C. Shrader, Donald S. Siegel. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Born to be alive? The survival of innovative and non-innovative French micro-start-ups (2014, background): “An experienced team is favorable to the development of innovative enterprises, even more than their market position (Shrader & Siegel, 2007).”
Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs (2010, methodology): “Moreover, in recent years some authors have argued the complementarity of both approaches (Amit and Schoemaker 1993; Grunert and Hildebrandt 2004) and state, for instance, that distinct competencies and resources are important for realizing sustainable competitive advantage when following a differen”
A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model (2008, background): “For nascent ventures, the entrepreneur‟s human capital, as expressed in her education, experience, and skills, constitutes arguably the most important initial resource endowment (Shrader and Siegel, 2007; Wright et al., 2007).”
Valuing University–Based Firms: The Effects of Academic Affiliation on IPO Performance (2011, background): “As a result, prospectus data are considered reliable and enjoy a longstanding role in strategy and entrepreneurship research (Shrader & Siegel, 2007).”
“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival (2013, background): “While Shane and Stuart (2002) find industry experience to be weakly and positively related to university spin-off performance, Shrader and Siegel (2007) find industry experience to be negatively and significantly related to both profitability and sales growth in a NTBF context.”
Optimism and chance: The elephants in the entrepreneurship room (2011, background): “Grilli (forthcoming, 2011) finds a negative relationship, while Bruderl et al. (1992), Bosma et al. (2004) and Shrader and Siegel (2007) all point to no significant effect.”
Dynamics of Science-based entrepreneurship (2010, background): “While there appears to be no consistent patterns of relationships, Shrader and Siegel (2007) have shown that employees with more human capital are associated with more effective implementation of technologies.”
The M&A dynamics of European science-based entrepreneurial firms (2010, background): “As a result, prospectus data are considered reliable and there is a long tradition of using such information in strategy research and, more recently, in entrepreneurship research (Shrader and Siegel, 2007).”
Human capital development and its impact on firm performance: Evidence from developmental economics (2009, background): “…to firm performance has also become prevalent among the technology-based new ventures, and it seems that the use of human capital tool (emphasizing quality of employees) per say in small technologybased new ventures tends to have a great impact on the firms’ success (Shrader & Siegel, 2007).”
Export propensity, export intensity and firm performance: The role of the entrepreneurial founding team (2012, background): “In more detail, general experience increases firm productivity by improving entrepreneurs’ strategic decision making and the identification of viable business opportunities (Boeker and Karichalil, 2002), and by assisting entrepreneurs’ adaptation to new situations (Wright et al, 2008; Marvel and Lum”