Pre-Entry Knowledge, Learning, and the Survival of New Firms

By John C. Dencker, Marc Gruber, Sonali K. Shah. Organ. Sci., 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Human Capital and Entrepreneurship Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions (2016, neutral): “…et al., 2011 Baum & Silverman, 2004 Cetindamar et al., 2012 Dimov & Shepherd, 2005 Organization Science Robson et al., 2013 Powers & McDougall, 2005 Dencker et al., 2009 Cassar, 2006 Petkova et al., 2013 Entrepreneurship Theory Aidis & Praag, 2007 & Practice Beckman et al., 2007 Strategic…”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, neutral): “Some studies reported no effects (e.g. Dencker et al., 2009; Oe and Mitsuhashi, 2012; Ucbasaran et al., 2006; Westhead and Wright, 1998), while others showed non-linear effects (e.g. Delmar and Shane, 2006; Eesley and Roberts, 2012; Reuber and Fischer, 1994), while still others found even negative…”
The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model (2018, background): “This is because entrepreneurs, like any individual, draw on past experiences to organize and configure their knowledge in subsequent new business creation (Gruber, 2010; Bryant, 2014; Dencker et al., 2009).”
Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, neutral): “For example, research examines how the experience of the founding team affects the performance of new entrepreneurial firms (Beckman & Burton, 2008; Dencker, Gruber & Shah, 2009).”
Why We Plan: The Impact of Nascent Entrepreneurs' Cognitive Characteristics and Human Capital on Business Planning (2015, methodology): “Second, we build on prior research that indicates that prior knowledge and experience of an individual determine the perception and effectiveness of business planning (Burke et al., 2010; Dencker, Gruber, and Shah, 2009).”
Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs (2013, background): “This effect size decreased for planning in the fixed effect model to 0.122 (p < 0.001) because the study of Dencker et al. (2009), which had the largest sample size in this sub-group analysis and a negative correlation, was weighted relatively higher in the fixed effect model.”
Beyond environmental scarcity: Human and social capital as driving forces of bootstrapping activities (2014, positive): “In the same vein, we control for the degree of innovation of the venture, with options ranging from not innovative or marginally innovative to radical or extremely innovative (Dencker et al., 2008; Kirzner, 1997).”
“To have and have not”: founders’ human capital and university start-up survival (2013, background): “As a result, a number of studies have found that founders’ pre-entry knowledge and experience enhance firms’ long-run performance and survival (e.g. Gimeno et al. 1997; Aspelund et al. 2005; Delmar and Shane 2006; Dencker et al. 2009; Geroski et al. 2010).”
Creating value in ecosystems: Crossing the chasm between knowledge and business ecosystems (2014, methodology): “We use survival analysis to examine firm survival (e.g. Dencker et al., 2009; Geroski et al., 2010) and employ a Cox proportional hazard model.”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, background): “planning-based approaches appear to have limited success in contexts characterized by true uncertainty, as plans based on past predictions often do no longer accurately reflect the unfolding course of events in such contexts (Alvarez and Parker, 2009; Brinckmann et al., 2010; Chwolka and Raith, 2012”