Stefania Zerbinati

• City, University of London

Different streams of research have led to contradictory conclusions about the venture performance implications of founders’ breadth of experience. Although extant empirical studies have explored the performance implications of founders’ breadth of experience at the start-up stage, we focus on the later stage of the initial public offering (IPO). We...

Founders can voluntarily exit their ventures via initial public offerings (IPOs). In this study, we build on power theory to develop and test a model of founder exit using a dataset of 313 founders from 177 entrepreneurial IPOs between 2002 and 2010. We largely find support for the model—a negative relationship between founder power and full exit....

How do corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) do deals? Conversations with CVCs suggest that the putative view of venture capital investing is incomplete. We draw on 13 cases of CVC programs to document eight 'corporate investment practices' that are unique to CVCs. These practices reflect pressure on the CVC units for strategic fit and engagement wi...

Through an inductive study of six corporate venture capital programs, we unravel how new organizational units resolve competing forces from two different institutional environments. The data suggest that the organizational structure of units that enter a new environment depends on whether they "focus their isomorphism" internally toward the parent...

This study explores the effect of institutional origin (‘nurture’) and economic context (‘nature’) on the financial resource endowment and subsequent early employment growth of researchbased spin-offs (RBSOs). The nurture dimensions capture the relationship between the parent research institution and the RBSO during the start-up phase: the type of...

In this chapter scope the relationship between entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Both entrepreneurship and CSR have attracted increased interest in the early 21st century and been positioned as offering solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges. Previous attempts to determine causal influence between the t...

Drawing on the theory of planned behaviour, this study tests the effect of entrepreneurship programmes on the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of science and engineering students. This is necessary in order to confirm (or disconfirm) conventional wisdom that entrepreneurship education increases the intention to start a business. The results...

Given the lack of unequivocal findings on person-career fit, this investigation aims to gain insight into the role of cognitive styles in understanding students’ career preferences by two complementary studies. In study 1, we examined whether students (n = 84) with different cognitive styles differ in their entrepreneurial attitudes. Results showed...

The role of entrepreneurship in European public sector organizations is examined. Research was gathered on ten European local government units--five in the UK (English region of Yorkshire and Humberside) and five in Italy (the Piedmont region). Utilizing Stevenson's six-dimension framework of entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial agents in thes...

An increasing amount of attention has been devoted to understanding the process of Europeanization, although little has been done to identify its implications for local government. Since local government organizations have been increasingly involved in EU funding, this provides an interesting setting for an analysis of Europeanization. This article...

Most of the current literature on academic spin-offs is concerned with what determines the emergence of spinoffs, with few studies tackling the crucial academic and policy question of whether (and which) spin-offs actually grow (Djokovic and Souitaris 2004). The heterogeneity in the nature of research-based spin-offs across Europe adds to the compl...