Ha Hoang

• ESSEC - Ecole Supérieur des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales

The literature on professional socialization suggests that their training and socialization lead physicians to prioritize professionally prescribed activities over entrepreneurial activity. This leaves unexplained how and why early career physicians would engage in entrepreneurship, a behavior that many healthcare organizations now seek to encourag...

A key process for exploration is to develop products in order to serve new markets. An implicit assumption in the organizational learning literature, not yet tested empirically, is that the increasing breadth of knowledge and experience firms gain by expanding into new product markets (i.e. exploration experience) may enhance their capacity to inno...

Since Hoang and Antoncic [2003], network based research in entrepreneurship continues to develop and grow. To chart these developments, we discuss core relational (network content, governance), and structural constructs. We identify recent work that has introduced nodal and contextual constructs; the former capture attributes that inhere in the ent...

Technology ventures often develop products domestically and license them out to large companies for worldwide commercialization. However, international R&D alliances provide an alternative - potentially more rewarding - path to foreign markets. We hypothesize that this path is especially attractive for firms underperforming in terms of product deve...

Performance comparisons play a key role in driving firm behavior in organizational learning models. However, in some industry contexts, conventional measures of performance such as profitability or revenues do not facilitate accurate comparisons between firms. We argue that novel performance indicators are essential to understand the dynamics of fi...

Although one tenet in the alliance literature is that firms learn from prior experience, we posit that any potential learning effects depend on the type of experience. In particular, we hypothesize that alliance exploitation experience has positive effects on R&D project performance, while alliance exploration experience has negative effects. We fu...

We develop a new theory that views organizational founding as involving a role transition. Through the construct of founder role identity, we delineate how identity centrality and complexity affect individuals' ability to exit a work role in order to undertake founding activities. We argue that individuals are challenged to adjust to the founder ro...

Using a unique dataset of 415 projects which were conducted alone, collaboratively, or initiated by an acquired biotechnology firm between 1980 and 2000, we examine whether and how large pharmaceutical firms leverage their alliance experience to build R&D capabilities in biotechnology. We find that pharmaceutical firms are able to transfer their co...

Entrepreneurial identity refers to a person's set of meanings, including attitudes and beliefs, attributes, and subjective evaluations of behavior, that define him or herself in an entrepreneurial role. The construct of entrepreneurial identity encompasses how a person defines the entrepreneurial role, and whether he or she identifies with that rol...

Drawing on the organizational learning literature, we study the effect of alliance experience on alliance performance. We differentiate between firm-level general alliance experience obtained from alliances across a diverse set of partners and dyad-level partner-specific alliance experience accumulated through repeated interactions with the same pa...

Network-based research in entrepreneurship is reviewed and critically examined in three areas: content of network relationships, governance, and structure. Research on the impact of network structure on venture performance has yielded a number of important findings. In contrast, fewer process-oriented studies have been conducted and only partial em...

This paper investigates how the interorganizational networks of young companies affect their ability to acquire the resources necessary for survival and growth. We propose that, faced with great uncertainty about the quality of young companies, third parties rely on the prominence of the affiliates of those companies to make judgments about their q...

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it complements the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black players, ceteris paribus, translating into an expected career length of 7.5 seasons for an apparently...

Firm participation in a network of information and technology exchange is argued to be a critical determination of subsequent equity activity. Network centrality was found to be a critical factor in determining which dedicated biotechnology firms were acquired between 1990-95. Minority equity alliances were driven by financial constraints.

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it is a complement to the many wage discrimination studies by examining exit discrimination in the NBA using a decade's worth of data (the 1980's). White players have a 36% lower risk of being cut than black players, ceteris paribus, translating into an expected career length of 7 seasons for an appare...

This study represents one of the first quantitative field tests of the sunk-cost effect. We tested whether the amount teams spent for players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) influenced how much playing time players got and how long they stayed with NBA franchises. Sunk costs were operationalized by the order in which players were selec...

Organizational strategies are embodied in managerial decisions regarding which product segments to compete in. Particularly risky are decisions to venture into new product segments, where managers possess very limited information to assess the firm's chance of success. This study draws on insights from the behavioral theory of the firm to identify...