Carina Lomberg

Technical University of Denmark | DTU · Department of Management Engineering

We appreciate the important academic discussions that our article (Kensbock, Alkærsig, and Lomberg, 2022) has initiated. Replying to the commentaries by Keyes and Shaman (2022) and Pierce and Rider (2022), we reiterate the goal and purpose of our research questions, including the use of a metaphor. We address theoretical arguments that a “normaliza...

We examine substance addiction as a primary antecedent in the development of entrepreneurship addiction, which is the compulsive need to engage in entrepreneurship. We draw on psychological addiction literature to expand examining entrepreneurship addiction through the lens of behavioural addictions, such as gaming or internet use, to focus on theo...

Combining management research with infectious disease epidemiology, we propose a new perspective on mental disorders in a business context. We suggest that—similar to infectious diseases—clinical diagnoses of depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders can spread epidemically across the boundaries of organizations via social contagion. We pro...

There is growing evidence that human biology and behavior are influenced by infectious microorganisms. One such microorganism is the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii ( TG). Using longitudinal data covering the female population of Denmark, we extend research on the relationship between TG infection and entrepreneurial activity and outcomes. Results indi...

Facilitation style appears to be an important determinant of design team effectiveness. The neutrality of the group facilitator may be a key factor; however, the characteristics and impact of neutrality are relatively understudied. In a designed classroom setting, we examine the impact of two different approaches to group facilitation: (i) facilita...

Hybrid entrepreneurship, simultaneous employment and entrepreneurship, is increasingly prevalent. We theorize entrepreneurial entry as one possible outcome of a two-stage new employment search process 1) decision to search for a job, attempt a start-up, or both and 2) outcome of start-up attempts. Stage 2 is critically different for hybrid (employe...

Facilitation is a critical means of supporting creative processes in teams. Previous studies have shown that neutrality is central to effective facilitation but no clear conceptualisation of neutrality has been provided to date. The aim of this paper is to explore how neutrality is enacted by facilitators, what its key elements and mechanisms are,...

There is growing evidence that human biology and behavior is influenced by infectious microorganisms. One such microorganism is the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii (TG). Using longitudinal data covering the female population of Denmark, we extend research on the relationship between TG infection and entrepreneurial activity and outcomes. Results indica...

Action-orientation is portrayed as key for entrepreneurship. To understand the conditions under which action-orientation is indeed favourable for entrepreneurs, we introduce the personality-systems-interaction (PSI) theory to entrepreneurship research. PSI theory distinguishes action- versus state-orientation and explains how both dispositions infl...

We shed new light on the structure of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance and how this relationship varies across contexts. Using commonality analysis, we decompose the variance in performance—in terms of the effects of innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk taking—into parts that are attributable to uniq...

Researchers are engaged in finding the precursors for innovation. Drawing on Kirton's Adaption‐Innovation (KAI) Inventory, we explicitly test Kirton's central premise that cognitive styles differentiate between preferences for producing ideas in a certain way. We argue that the generation of either a magnitude or original ideas is governed by diffe...

Researchers are engaged in finding the precursors for innovation. Drawing on Kirton's Adaption-Innovation (KAI) Inventory, we explicitly test Kirton's central premise that cognitive styles differentiate between preferences for producing ideas in a certain way. We argue that the generation of either a magnitude or original ideas is governed by diffe...

An individual’s human capital affects both the opportunities available through starting a business as well as the opportunity costs of forgoing employment opportunities. Drawing on the notions of search, evaluation, and uncertainty costs from decision theory, we argue that an individual’s human capital shapes whether nascent entrepreneurship and/or...

The purpose of the present paper is to contribute to the small but growing literature studying the role of individual-level factors in corporate entrepreneurship. We use a pretest-posttest experimental design with 328 employees to capture dynamic effects between affective states and idea generation. Building on the affective shift model (Bledow, Sc...

Recent conceptual contributions to the discussion of modeling and operationalizing EO have demonstrated the benefits of distinguishing variance that is unique to single dimensions of EO and variance that is shared among all (or just two) dimensions of EO (George & Marino, 2011). In this paper we take this conceptualization to its next level and do...

Literature predominantly states that SMEs that embrace entrepreneurial risk-taking are likely to exhibit better export performance than those who don’t. However, such a view may be overly simplistic because––particularly in uncertain environments––risk-taking may also be associated with higher probability of failure. Because of this lack of clarity...

Existing theoretical explanations about the influence of affect in the process of creating ideas (ideation) and their corresponding empirical findings are contradictory. The purpose of the present chapter is to provide new insights by providing a theoretical explanation that is able to encompass these contradictions, and to support this theoretical...

Both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 were linked directly to new stages in the development of e-business. Whereas the distinction between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 became widely accepted in literature and practice, we are merely at the beginning of the possibilities arising from current trends culminating in our information society. Information emerges increasingly...

Both, Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 were linked directly to new stages in the development of e-business. Whereas the distinction between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 became widely accepted in literature and practice, we are merely at the beginning of the possibilities arising from current trends culminating in our information society. Information emerges increasingly...

Im vorangegegangen Kapitel werden die Ergebnisse der durchgeführten empirischen Unteruchung hinsichtlich der in Kapitel 3 getroffenen Hypothesen diskutiert. Die Überprüfung der Hypothesen ist dabei als notwendiger Zwischenschritt zur Beantwortung der übergeordneten Forschungsfrage dieser Arbeit zu sehen – die Untersuchung der Wirkung von spezifisch...

Bei der Wahl der Methode zur Erhebung ist es bedeutsam, diejenige Methode zu wählen, die sich hinsichtlich der Fragestellung, des Feldzugangs, der zeitlichen und finanziellen Möglichkeiten am besten dazu eignet, die erforderlichen Informationen zu erhalten. In der empirischen Sozialforschung wird zumeist zwischen Befragungen, Beobachtungen, und non...

Wachstum, Flexibilität und Innovativität sind Eigenschaften, die gemeinhin mit entrepreneurialen Unternehmen, d.h. jungen, aufstrebenden Unternehmen assoziiert werden. In einem zunehmend komplexeren, kompetitiveren Unternehmensumfeld sind diese Eigenschaften jedoch nicht nur für junge Wachstumsunternehmen, sondern ebenfalls für etablierte Unternehm...

Theorien zeichnen sich durch ihre Allgemeingültigkeit und die daraus resultierenden, vielseitigen Verwendungsmöglichkeiten aus. In einer komplexen Welt müssen Theorien vereinfachende Annahmen machen, um gesetzesmäßige Aussagen treffen zu können. Dies geschieht durch die Bildung von Modellen, die zumeist idealisierende Systeme darstellen. Die vorang...

In dem kompetitiven, zunehmend komplexeren und unsicheren Umfeld des 21. Jahrhunderts scheinen einzig abrupte Veränderungen konstant zu sein. Veränderungen und Unsicherheiten führen jedoch zu ernsten Problemen, wenn Unternehmen nicht in der Lage sind, ihr Verhalten den neuen Anforderungen anzupassen und stattdessen die Verhaltensmuster beibehalten,...

The existing literature often attests young growth companies as having severe deficits in managing their human resources. These deficits usually result from a focus on the diffusion of standard HR-instruments in small and medium-sized enterprises. But due to the fact that there are of course a lot of young growth companies with highly qualified emp...

Leichte Verfügbarkeit und kostengünstige Realisierung haben Datenerhebungen im Internet inzwischen zu einer bedeutenden Methode der Markt- und der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung werden lassen. Der Beitrag stellt die Möglichkeiten derartiger Verfahren vor, weist auf potenzielle Fehlerquellen hin und gibt grundsätzliche Empfehlungen zur Durchführun...

The purpose of the present paper is to contribute to the small but growing literature studying the role of individual-level factors in corporate entrepreneurship. Specifically, we draw on the volitional core of the broader personality-systems-interactions (PSI) theory (Kuhl, 2000) to analyze how leadership behavior and affect influence the creative...

The question “why some people, and not others, discover and exploit those opportunities” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000: 218) is still one of the core questions in entrepreneurship research. As starting a new business is generally perceived to be a high-risk activity, entrepreneurs have long been regarded as being risk-takers. Yet, though some authors...