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| Title: | | Disentangling the effects of new venture team functional heterogeneity on new venture performance  |
| Authors: | | Cantner, Uwe Goethner, Maximilian Stuetzer, Michael |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2010,029 |
| Abstract: | | Previous research on entrepreneurial teams has failed to settle the controversy over whether team heterogeneity helps or hinders new venture performance. Reconciling this inconsistency, this paper suggests a new conceptual approach to disentangle differential effects of team heterogeneity by modeling two separate heterogeneity dimensions, namely knowledge scope and knowledge disparity. Analyzing unique data on functional experiences of the members of 337 start-up teams, we find support for our contention of team heterogeneity as a two-dimensional concept. Results suggest that knowledge disparity negatively relates to both start-ups' entrepreneurial and innovative performance. In contrast, we find knowledge scope to positively affect entrepreneurial performance, while it shows an inverse U-shaped relationship to innovative start-up performance. |
| Subjects: | | Entrepreneurial teams New venture performance Team heterogeneity Team diversity |
| JEL: | | L26 M13 L25 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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