Nicola Breugst

Technische Universität München | TUM · TUM School of Management

As many new ventures are started by founding teams, it is these founding teams that likely engage in creating their venture’s culture. We draw on theories of cultural dynamics and the literature on team cognitive diversity to investigate the creation of a new venture’s culture. Specifically, we theorize how a founding team’s cognitive diversity imp...

This paper introduces a process model of how academics learn to bridge different cognitive scripts, thereby learning to collaborate with non-academic managers in the context of multidisciplinary academic spinoff (ASO) teams. Whereas prior research has taken a static perspective, showing that cooperation in ASO teams is challenging due to difference...

Drawing on an information processing perspective, we explore to what extent early venture activities allow founding teams to leverage their diverse knowledge to achieve venture growth. Using data from 103 young ventures, we find that early planning enables founding teams to better exploit the diverse knowledge resulting from their heterogeneity in...

Greed is an excessive form of self-interest that leads individuals to pursue material wealth and immaterial desires with little or no concern for the well-being of others. While the literature suggests that greed results in managers acting unethically, a situational strength perspective suggests that this may not always be the case. Therefore, this...

While research on entrepreneurial teams has flourished over the past two decades, it has mainly taken a static perspective, neglecting the developments both teams and their ventures undergo over time. To address this issue, we develop a “double life cycle framework” covering entrepreneurial teams’ formation, collaboration, and dissolution phases as...

Consistent with social motivation theory, prior research on managerial motivation suggests that effort is contagious across management team members. In this study, we draw on belongingness theory to develop a model on important boundary conditions to social motivation theory in the management team context. The model predicts that new venture manage...

Prior research on entrepreneurial visions has typically taken a leadership perspective and explored how the founders’ future images of their ventures motivate themselves and followers. Drawing on an upper echelon perspective and longitudinal case studies of eight founding teams, this study finds that founders’ entrepreneurial visions do not only ca...

Although previous research has found a positive relationship between information elaboration and team decision quality if team members possess diverse information, we know little about the boundary conditions of this relationship. In this study, we provide a more nuanced understanding of these boundary conditions by focusing on team‐external and te...

Although studies have highlighted economic and psychological antecedents of negative affect, social antecedents have been neglected. Building on attribution theory, we distinguish between relationship and task conflict to investigate the generation of negative affect during entrepreneurial team tasks including the team members' context in terms of...

Entrepreneurial teams substantially shape venture performance. While previous research has highlighted the negative effect of uncertainty and the positive effect of information exchange on entrepreneurial team performance, it has not sufficiently addressed the variance in these relationships. We theorize that the metacognitive knowledge available t...

Drawing on a multiple case study approach and data on eight entrepreneurial teams observed over six months this article develops a dynamic model of the consequences of equity distribution among team members. Perceived justice of equity distribution emerged as a key variable influencing entrepreneurial team interactions and important entrepreneurial...

We draw on cross-cultural theory and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project to develop a model for the transmission of entrepreneurial intentions within families in different cultures. Using data on more than 40,000 individuals from 15 countries, we show that beyond the transmission of entrepreneurial intentions fro...

This article demonstrates the applicability of implementing multilevel design, measurement, and analysis to explore research questions central to the management education literature. Specifically, we offer a multilevel model of self-assessed team performance based on self-enhancement theory and on the construal level theory of psychological distanc...

Drawing on theories of emotional contagion and goal setting, we propose two mechanisms as to how employees' perceptions of entrepreneurial passion influence their commitment to entrepreneurial ventures. Testing these mechanisms with data from a survey of 124 employees, we find that employees' perceptions of their supervisors' passion for inventing,...

Entrepreneurial teams frequently experience conflicts (Forbes, et al., 2010), but these conflicts can have different effects. Thus, research (Jehn, 1995) differentiates between relationship conflict, conflict related to interpersonal tensions which reduces member satisfaction, team performance (Amason, 1996) and, subsequently, venture performance (...

In the Net Economy, numerous start-ups relying on Internet-based business models have been founded in the recent years. In these ventures IT experts are confronted with different requirements to those of traditional software development. It can thus be assumed that founders in the Net Economy prefer IT experts with a different competence profile. B...

The article discusses the development of a model of how displays of entrepreneurial passion trigger the affective commitment of new venture employees. The existence of different kinds of entrepreneurial passion and how employees' perception of these types may influence their commitment are considered. The authors argue that employees' perception of...

In der Internetökonomie konnten in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche Neugründungen auf der Grundlage internetbasierter Geschäftsmodelle verzeichnet werden. Die Anforderungen, mit denen IT-Experten in diesen Firmen konfrontiert werden, unterscheiden sich von der klassischen Softwareentwicklung. Es kann daher angenommen werden, dass Internet-Gründer IT-E...

Zusammenfassung In der Internetökonomie konnten in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche Neugründungen auf der Grundlage internetbasierter Geschäftsmodelle verzeichnet werden. Die Anforderungen, mit denen IT-Experten in diesen Firmen konfrontiert werden, unterscheiden sich von der klassischen Softwareentwicklung. Es kann daher angenommen werden, dass Inter...

In this paper we explore the relationship between average organizational readiness and actual electronic business (e-business) adoption at a national level. Several researchers have provided empirical evidence suggesting that an organization’s readiness is one of the most important antecedents of e-business adoption; however, despite often comparab...

The ascension of e-business has significantly changed competence requirements of information technology (IT) professionals. In this paper, we derive a competence set that addresses these changes and investigate individual preferences for specific competence components within e-business teams. We connect these preferences and competence valuation wi...

In an experimental scenario study, we tested the influence of situational characteristics and individuals' cognitive appraisal on the entrepreneurial evaluation of the situation. We manipulated potential profit margin, time to profit, personal investment and probability of success on two levels each, thus, resulting in a fully crossed 2 x 2 x 2 x 2...

Research on entrepreneurial decision making has already demonstrated that decisions can be affected by entrepreneurs’ cognitive biases (e.g., Baron, 2004). But although many ventures are started by entrepreneurial teams (Chowdhury, 2005), biases at the team level have been neglected in entrepreneurship research. Due to heterogeneous backgrounds (e....

Self-employed parents can trigger the entrepreneurial intentions of their offspring through several mechanisms, e.g. genetics (Nicolaou & Shane, 2009), parenting styles (Aldrich & Kim, 2007), the transfer of financial and social capital (Sorenson, 2004), and because of socialization processes where they function as entrepreneurial role models (Matt...

In leadership research, supervisors’ affect was found to influence employees’ performance (George, 1995). As in the entrepreneurial context passion plays a significant role (Smilor, 1997, Cardon et al., in press), we investigate the effect of entrepreneurs’ displays of passion on the employees’ commitment to work for their company. We draw on psych...