Aging, Obsolescence, and Organizational Innovation

By Jesper B. Sørensen, Toby E. Stuart. 2000

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

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Earliness of internationalization and performance outcomes: Exploring the moderating effects of venture age and international commitment (2014, background): “Older firms have more established routines which impede their learning capability in new environments, or known as learning liability of aging (Barron, West, & Hannan, 1994; Sorensen & Stuart, 2000).”
Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett‐Packard's thermal ink‐jet (2002, background): “For example, Sorensen and Stuart (2000) found that firm size had a positive effect on invention quality in the semiconductor industry and a negative effect in biotech.”
Competence and governance in strategic collaboration: The differential effect of network structure on the creation of core and non-core technology (2012, background): “In contrast, younger firms with lower stakes in established technologies will focus more on experimentation with new technological fields (Sorensen and Stuart, 2000).”
An Integrated Agency-Resource Dependence View of the Influence of Directors' Human and Relational Capital on Firms' R&D Spending (2011, methodology): “We controlled for firm size using the natural log of the number of employees because, in samples such as ours, sales are not preferred owing to the low and varying revenue streams of some firms (Sorensen and Stuart, 2000).”
Startup size and the mechanisms of external learning: increasing opportunity and decreasing ability? (2003, background): “This decrease in capabilities could be because the larger firms look increasingly inward (Sorensen and Stuart 2000) or because informal knowledge flows, rooted in individuals and their 8 We are grateful to an anonymous reviewer for highlighting this reason.”
Does innovation lead to performance? An empirical study of SMEs in Taiwan (2007, background): “However, researchers also reported that established SMEs have the propensity to accumulate innovative knowledge and engage in more innovations than the younger ones (Garvin, 1983; Sorensen and Stuart, 2000).”
Banking Deregulation and Innovation (2013, methodology): “Some studies find favorable effects of concentration and other growth by 1.354%, which is very close to the 1.4% that Jayaratne and Strahan (1996) estimate.”
Bureaucracy and Entrepreneurship: Workplace Effects on Entrepreneurial Entry (2007, background): “The effects of organizational age have also been extensively studied, particularly by organizational ecologists (e.g., Freeman, Carroll, and Hannan, 1983; Hannan, 1998; Sørensen and Stuart, 2000).”
Shareholder returns and the exploration–exploitation dilemma: R&D announcements by biotechnology firms (2007, result): “This control is in keepingwith other biotechnology studies (Rothaermel and Deeds, 2006; Sorensen and Stuart, 2000).”
FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH: OPPORTUNITY PERCEPTION AND RESOURCE MOBILIZATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (2003, background): “On the other hand, because the environmental conditions at the time of founding shape the nature of the firm (Sinchcombe, 1965), and because firm capabilities may become increasingly obsolete as they mature (Barron, West & Hannan, 1994; Sorensen & Stuart, 2000 ), potential entrants could view old f”