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Early Teams: The Impact of Team Demography on VC Financing and Going Public (with Christine M. Beckman and Charles O'Reilly), Articles & Chapters (2007)
This study investigates how top management team (TMT) demographic characteristics affect firm outcomes for young...
Walking the Talk: The Impact of High Commitment Values and Practices on Technology Start-ups (with Charles O'Reilly), Working Papers (2004)
We examine the impact of high commitment work systems (HCWS) on high-technology start-ups. We differentiate...
Coming From Good Stock: Career Histories and New Venture Formation (with Jesper B. Sørensen and Christine M. Beckman), Articles & Chapters (2002)
We examine how the social structure of existing organizations influences entrepreneurship and suggest that resources...
Labor Pains: Change in Organizational Models and Employee Turnover in Young, High-Tech Firms (with James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan), Articles & Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] Organizational theories, especially ecological perspectives, emphasize the disruptive effects of change. However, the mechanisms...
The Company They Keep: Founders' Models for Organizing New Firms, Articles & Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] This chapter examines the employment models founders use as they begin to construct new...
Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms (with James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan), Articles & Chapters (1999)
[Excerpt] This article examines the impact of organizational founding conditions on several facets of bureaucratization—managerial...
Determinants of Managerial Intensity in the Early Years of Organizations (with James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan), Working Papers (1998)
This paper examines how founding conditions shape subsequent organizational evolution— specifically, the proliferation of management...
Inertia and Change in the Early Years: Employment Relations in Young, High Technology Firms (with Michael T. Hannan and James N. Baron), Articles & Chapters (1996)
[Excerpt] This paper considers processes of organizational imprinting in a sample of 100 young, high...
The Road Taken: Origins and Evolution of Employment Systems in Emerging Companies (with James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan), Articles & Chapters (1996)
[Excerpt] Drawing on a unique archive of qualitative and quantitative data describing 100 Bay Area...