The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers

By Daniel W. Elfenbein, Barton H. Hamilton, Todd R. Zenger. Management Sciences, 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Used, Blocking and Sleeping Patents: Empirical Evidence from a Large-Scale Inventor Survey (2016, background): “%) is probably due to the ‘small firm effect’, i.e. greater opportunities to develop entrepreneurial human capital offered by small firms compared with large, bureaucratic organizations (Elfenbein et al., 2010).”
The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spillovers: Performance Differences between University Spinoffs and Corporate Spinoffs (2011, background): “…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 marketing know-how…”
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields (2016, background): “Often, because of the low division of labor, people in small firms are exposed to more fields of activity than people working in larger firms (e.g., Wagner, 2004; Hyytinen and Maliranta, 2008; Elfenbein et al., 2010).”
Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs (2013, background): “Because small (and especially young and small) firms usually lack complex hierarchical structures and highly specialized work places, working conditions are characterized by the opportunity for employees to conduct a variety of tasks (Parker 2009; Bublitz and Noseleit 2011; Elfenbein et al. 2010).”
Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden (2012, methodology): “For the United States, Elfenbein et al. (2010) used longitudinal survey data to study the formation of new firms by scientists and engineers. Industry studies have typically focused on new manufacturing industries during their early, formative era. Klepper (2009) provides a recent review of these st”
The entrepreneurial earnings puzzle: Mismeasurement or real? (2014, background): “(2011); Bernhardt (1994); Blanchflower (2000); Elfenbein et al. (2010); Evans and Leighton (1989); Hamilton (2000); Hartog et al. (2010); Tåg et al (2013) SIPP, LMAS, PSID, NLSY66, KLIPS, Swedish national registry, Eurobarometer”
Opportunity Structures in Established Firms (2012, background): “…unobserved selection processes may lead to inferential challenges, these concerns should be mitigated to the extent that previous studies provide robust evidence for the causal influence of organizational size and age on entrepreneurship (Sørensen, 2007; Elfenbein, Hamilton, and Zenger, 2010).”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “We do hold that some entrepreneurs may possess superior judgment capabilities than others (Foss and Klein 2012), whether those capabilities be from superior knowledge, intelligence, foresight, or other talents, and this may explain variation in entrepreneurial outcomes (e.g. Elfenbein et al. 2010).”