Noni Symeonidou

Warwick Business School · Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Resource-constrained new ventures need to decide how to allocate their scarce resources to develop internal functional capabilities in order to survive and grow. Drawing on the longitudinal Kauffman Firm Survey of U.S. start-ups, we explore the performance implications of broad versus narrow scope in new firms' functional capability development and...

Research on family firms provides mixed evidence of the effect of family ownership on firm performance and exit outcomes. Drawing on threshold theory and the socioemotional wealth perspective, we argue that family firms have lower performance thresholds than non-family firms, reducing the likelihood of firm exit. Using a longitudinal dataset of 119...

In this article, we conduct a systematic review of the emerging literature on the biological perspective in management and investigate research spanning the areas of genetics, physiology, and neuroscience. We examine 291 papers published in 133 journals over an 85-year period as well as 10 conference/working papers and six books. On the basis of th...

Research Summary: We examine the performance effects of resource orchestration in start‐ups by investigating three key contingencies of resource orchestration: human capital (HC) investment relative to rivals, leveraging strategy, and founder start‐up experience. We find that deviating from rivals' resource investments (either above or below the in...

This chapter discusses the role that biology plays in entrepreneurship. It examines how genetics, hormones, physiology, and neuroscience may affect entrepreneurial phenotypes. Entrepreneurship researchers have investigated the influence of genetic factors in entrepreneurship. There are two main approaches that examine the influence of genetics on e...

Exchanges in markets for technology (MfT) have grown rapidly in recent years. MfT involve transactions for the use, diffusion and creation of technology. In this article, we conduct a systematic review of the emerging market for technology literature and examine one of its most important aspects, corporate technology licensing. Using thematic analy...

Advances in business process outsourcing and open innovation practices have made the choice of technology commercialization strategy increasingly relevant for technology-based new ventures. We investigate effects of intellectual property (IP)-based, product-based, and hybrid (both product and IP) commercialization strategies on internationalization...

Research on family firm survival has been mixed as studies provide evidence both for a positive and negative effect of family ownership on firm survival. Drawing upon threshold theory and socioemotional wealth we develop hypotheses which link family owners’ socio-emotional wealth and performance threshold to entrepreneurial exit. Using the longitud...

New ventures need to choose which capabilities to develop first in order to build legitimacy and thus enhance survival. Building on configuration and organizational capability theories, we explored the trade-off between flexibility and specialization strategies in capability development in new ventures. Using the longitudinal Kauffman Firm Survey o...

We investigate the effect of intellectual property-based and product- based commercialization strategies on the liability of foreignness experienced by US start-ups. Using the longitudinal Kauffman Firm Survey we find that the liability of foreignness is significantly greater for start-ups using product-based than start-ups using intellectual prope...

The process by which entrepreneurs accumulate and deploy resources has important implications for firm performance. Although the resource based view highlights the importance of resources for the creation of competitive advantage, it has been less able to address how managers use these resources to create value or how these are connected with the s...