‘I Like How You Think’: Similarity as an Interaction Bias in the Investor–Entrepreneur Dyad

By Entrepreneur Dyadjoms, Charles Y. Murnieks, J. Haynie, Robert Wiltbank, Troy R. Harting. 2011

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Accounting

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. David W. Williams
3. A. McKelvie
4. Michael Lounsbury
5. J. Haynie
6. Jeffery S. McMullen
7. Charles Y. Murnieks
8. Dan K. Hsu

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Matthew S. Wood
2. David W. Williams
3. A. McKelvie
4. Jeffery S. McMullen
5. S. Simmons
6. Dan K. Hsu
7. J. Haynie
8. Benjamin J. Warnick

Citations in the corpus

• Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, methodology): “…of the HLM results follows prior entrepreneurship research using orthogonal conjoint designs (c.f. Haynie et al., 2009; McKelvie et al., 2011; Murnieks et al., 2011; Priem, 1994), and we report only the full model that includes the results for the main effects, interactions, and cross-level…”
• The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Empirically, VCs evaluate more positively new ventures founded by entrepreneurs who have similar types of education and previous working experience (Franke et al., 2006) or similar process and nature of decision-making (Murnieks et al., 2011).”
• Passion for entrepreneurship or passion for the product? A conjoint analysis of angel and VC decision-making (2018, background): “Finally, we build on research showing that experience can influence perceptions (Franke et al., 2006; Murnieks et al., 2011) to examine whether investors evaluate different types of passion differently depending on their own entrepreneurial experience and investing experience.”
• Opportunity Evaluation as Rule‐Based Decision Making (2014, methodology): “, 2001; Huber, 1987), including those of entrepreneurs and investors (cf. McKelvie et al., 2011; Murnieks et al., 2011).”
• What matters, matters differently: a conjoint analysis of the decision policies of angel and venture capital investors (2014, methodology): “With regard to human decision factors, we acknowledge that angel investors also consider entrepreneurs’ trustworthiness (Maxwell and Lévesque 2010), cognitive style (Murnieks et al. 2011), similarity (Murnieks et al.”
• Optimal distinctiveness: Broadening the interface between institutional theory and strategic management (2017, background): “, 2006), personal values (Matusik, George, and Heeley, 2008), and cognitive styles (Murnieks et al., 2011).”