Sepideh Yeganegi

Wilfrid Laurier University | WLU · School of Business & Economics

Increasing research on spinouts highlights the key role that employees play in new business creation, knowledge diffusion, and economic development. However, this research conflicts on many points, including on definitions of key concepts. In this paper, we review the theoretical and empirical literatures on private sector employee spinouts and int...

Extant literature suggests that ethnically diverse work teams can generate both positive and negative outcomes, but it is unclear how startup teams are affected. We seek to help clarify the relationship between startup team ethnic diversity and total investment capital. Using statistical analyses on a dataset of startups that participated in Techst...

The rapid spread of digital technologies has fostered an assumption that all entrepreneurs have equal and easy access to knowledge stocks irrespective of their context. We challenge this assumption by examining the contextual influence of information availability and argue that technology entrepreneurship involves a search process reliant on timely...

This cross-country study suggests that non-competes are not serving parent firms’ intended purpose of discouraging the spinouts by higher earning employees. Instead, they have an untended consequence of mainly blocking the wrong types of spawn—that is, spinouts by lower earning employees.

This study examines the organizational drivers of entrepreneurial entry through the lens of individual-level ambidexterity. We theorize that employees that both explore and exploit new activities within organizations are more likely to become entrepreneurs outside the organization. Multilevel analysis results from a large sample of Global Entrepren...

This paper conceptualizes and empirically examines organizational and institutional antecedents of spinouts (i.e., new businesses created by employees). We deploy multi-level logistic regression modeling methods on a sub-sample of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's 2011 survey covering 29 countries. The results reveal that employees who have exp...

This study examines the organizational drivers of entrepreneurship. We argue that employees that both explore and exploit new activities within organizations are more likely to become entrepreneurs outside the organization. Data analysis of a large sample from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor using multi-level modeling support this hypothesis. T...

This study examines the organizational drivers of nascent entrepreneurship. Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, the analyses suggest that employees who experience individual-level ambidexterity, that is exposure to both the exploration and exploitation phases in the corporate venturing process, are more likely to become nascent ent...