1 Department of Environmental Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland 3 Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4 Fontem Ventures B.V., 12th floor, Barbara Strozzilaan 101, 1083 HN...

Our longitudinal study of the entire population of internal corporate ventures within a large European electronics manufacturer finds that the conventional focus in the corporate venturing literature to evaluate ventures based on business growth and financial performance may be misguided. Instead, we found that ventures are temporary conduits for capability development and play a primary role i...

With a sample of new technology ventures in China, we investigated the contingent effect of strategic decision comprehensiveness on new product performance and product quality. The relationship between strategic decision comprehensiveness and new product performance was negatively moderated by technology uncertainty but positively moderated by demand uncertainty. The effect of decision comprehe...

A common phenomenon in entrepreneurship is that employees turn away from employment to found their own businesses. Prior literature discusses the former employers’ characteristics that influence the creation of entrepreneurial ventures. An investigation of whether these characteristics also affect the success of the spawned ventures is missing so far. This paper contributes to the literature by...

Extant literature has investigated the effects of new ventures’ environmental sustainability orientation (ESO) on crowdfunding (CF) performance and ability to secure venture capital, separately with mixed results. In this article, we address study these relationships simultaneously. Specifically, examine how presence ESO features influences technology-based funding in reward-based CF cam...

Crowdfunding, a new financing method for funding ideas or ventures through a large number of relatively small contributions from many individuals has witnessed the phenomenal development over the past decade. It involves bypassing traditional financial intermediaries and using online web-based platforms to connect users of funds with retail funders. This research first explores in greater detai...

Inter-organizational relationships offer many potential benefits, but they also expose firms to dangers, such as misappropriation, that pull partners apart. This tension between collaboration and competition is central to tie formation, especially for young technology-focused firms who have both high need for resources and high appropriability of their own resources. Prior work has examined leg...