Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56903 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2010,059
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Spinoffs frms are an important source of industry dynamics and innovation. While an emerging body of literature identifies strategic disagreements and ideas as determinants of spinoffs, neither of them can completely explain the spinoff process. Mere disagreements or brilliant flashes of ideas do not always lead to spinoffs. This study brings individual level determinants at the forefront in spinoff formation. Based on insights from the occupational choice theory, we argue that spinoff process is a distinctive lass of entrepreneurial entrants and entrepreneurial talent is a major determinant in formation of spinoffs. Entrepreneurial talent modulates the impact of strategic disagreements and ideas on the decision to spinoff.
Subjects: 
spinoffs
entrepreneurship
occupational choice
disagreements
JEL: 
D00
J24
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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