Publications associées à Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making

Research Summary: This article investigates venture capital (VC) decision-making, a process that occurs under changing conditions and limited, ambiguous information. We shed new light on the inherent dynamics of this strategic process. One of the key disti ...

WILEY2023

Beyond scientific excellence: International mobility and the entrepreneurial activities of academic scientists

Valentina Tartari, Wolf-Hendrik Peter Uhlbach

As the international mobility of academic scientists is ever increasing, its effects on outcomes beyond research productivity deserve more attention. In this paper, we therefore investigate to what extent academics with different international mobility exp ...

ELSEVIER2022

Identity-Society (Mis)Alignment And The Instrumentalization Of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction And Creative Reconstruction

Marc Gruber, Shirah Eden Foy

Research on founder identity has significantly advanced our understanding of entrepreneurship and related literatures. By departing from the widely held-though often implicit-assumption that culture defines the parameters of identity formation, this paper ...

ACAD MANAGEMENT2022

Essays on the Role of Policy and Venture Financing in Clean Technology Innovation

Matthias David van den Heuvel

This thesis aims to provide novel analyses and data that improve the understanding of the financing of investments in clean technologies. In particular, this thesis explores the role that private and public actors play in supporting young innovative firms. ...

EPFL2022

Getting more from many - A framework of community resourcefulness in new venture creation

Emmanuelle Fauchart Foray, Julia Katharina Binder, Christina Julia Hertel

In this study, we move beyond the predominant focus entrepreneurship researchers have put on the acquisition of financial capital from professional investors by exploring how, and with what effects, entrepreneurs can mobilize all required resources?financi ...

2021

Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives

Shirah Eden Foy

Entrepreneurship is a highly contextualized process. Yet, the vast majority of entrepreneurship research has focused on Western contexts, yielding a skewed picture of global entrepreneurial behavior. Moreover, theories of mainstream psychology explaining t ...

EPFL2020

The Identity of Entrepreneurs: Providing Conceptual Clarity and Future Directions

Theidentity of entrepreneurs(IoE) has become a popular concept in entrepreneurship research, for example, to explain entrepreneurial behavior. Yet, despite growing interest in this topic, theoretical and terminological inconsistencies have hampered the dev ...

2021

Financing Biomedical Ventures - Myths and Realities

Jeffrey Scott Behrens

Angel funding is an important source of capital for startup ventures (J. Sohl 2019), providing a similar level of capital as institutional venture capital (OECD 2011). But angel funding is challenging to study due to the informal nature of the activity. A ...

EPFL2020

Navigating the validity tradeoffs of entrepreneurship research experiments: A systematic review and best-practice suggestions

Jérémy Binder, Julia Katharina Binder

Experimental methods provide important advantages for advancing academic understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, the complex and comingled relationships between some of entrepreneurship's key characteristics pose thorny methodological challenges to entrepr ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation

Marc Gruber, Argyro Nikiforou

Research Summary Research on necessity entrepreneurship has generated important insights, yet it views necessity entrepreneurs in developed countries as one encompassing group of unemployed individuals-ignoring that the level of need is not uniform but ins ...

2019

A Digital Platform connecting Academia and Small Businesses: An opportunity for Knowledge Management Experiments

Quentin Adrien Cavillier

Digital transformation is one of the biggest phenomena of this decade. One enabler of this revolution was cloud computing. Today, software engineers can deliver software as a service (SaaS), which is accessible to users through the Internet. Slack, Shopify ...

EPFL2019

Die multiplen Rechenschaftspflichten von öffentlichen Unternehmen gegenüber dem Staat - Eine empirische Typologie der Entstehung und des Managements inkohärenter Erwartungen

Fabian Liechti

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide important services such as power supply, postal services and public transportation. In doing this, SOEs operate at the intersection of political/regulatory and economic expectations. Therefore, SOEs are commonly consi ...

EPFL2019

For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making

Nettra Danette Pan

Organizing is a managerial process which demands a sense of purpose. When stories about "who we are" and "what we do" are salient and coherent (Voss, Cable & Voss, 2006), organizations can better plan, explain and justify collective action (Whetten & Macke ...

EPFL2018

Designing, Aligning, and Visualizing Service Systems

Gorica Tapandjieva Sekulovska

Service is a concept that separates the concerns of an organization into (1) the value created for users and (2) the way the organization manages its resources to provide this value. The discipline of management of information technology (IT) uses services ...

EPFL2018

Governing the Use of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies: Not One-Size-Fits-All

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies and organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among many other potential benefits. However, their development and implementation d ...

2018

Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory

Marc Gruber

Research summaryEntrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality and focused on for- ...

Wiley2017

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Bettina Lynda Bastian, Christopher Tucci

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in ide ...

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

The significance of organizational change management for sustainable competitiveness in manufacturing: exploring the firm archetypes

Gökan May

The successful development and deployment of adequate sustainable manufacturing strategies are still open issues and of utmost interest for research and practice. Guided by this particular challenge, we investigate the significance of organisational change ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Signaling and Self-regulation in Venture Capital : Evidence from Investments in the Clean Technology Sector

Giovanni Liotta

This thesis proposes three studies that provide novel empirical evidence on how different types of VCs' characteristics signal the quality of an entrepreneurial venture and influence investment strategies of funds subject to self-regulation. In the first s ...

EPFL2016

A Motion Capture Study to Measure the Feeling of Synchrony in Romantic Couples and in Professional Musicians

Pierre Magistretti, Delphine Preissmann, Joan Llobera Mahy

The feeling of synchrony is fundamental for most social activities and prosocial behaviors. However, little is known about the behavioral correlates of this feeling and its modulation by intergroup differences. We previously showed that the subjective feel ...

Frontiers Media2016