What do i take with me? The mediating effect of spin-out team size and tenure on the founder-firm performance relationship
- Autores: Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell, April Mitchell Franco, Martin Ganco
- Localización: Academy of management journal, ISSN-e 0001-4273, Vol. 59, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 1060-1087
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
We extend the knowledge-based perspective to consider the impact of spin-out founders on knowledge transfer to new ventures.We argue that existing theory largely ignores the founder's role as a team catalyst who mobilizes a team and transmits the team's knowledge to a new venture. We address this gap by building theory on the role of a spin-out founder as a facilitator of co-mobility and whose impact on firmoutcomes is mediated by the size and organizational experience of the recruited team. The support for our hypotheses, through use of linked employee-employer U.S. Census data from the legal services industry, has theoretical and practical implications for the knowledge-based view and human resource strategies for both existing and entrepreneurial firms.
