PERFORMANCE DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN DIVERSIFYING ENTRANTS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL START-UPS: A COMPLEXITY APPROACH

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ganco, Martin; Agarwal, Rajshree
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/AMR.2009.36982618
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 228-252
• 关键词: american automobile-industry; DOMINANT DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY; firm survival; DE-NOVO; entry; EVOLUTION; KNOWLEDGE; capabilities; MODEL

摘要

We investigate the relationship between firms' entry characteristics and their subsequent performance as contingent on environmental turbulence and stage of industry life cycle by simulating industry as an NKC landscape. Diversifying entrants differ from entrepreneurial start-ups in terms of the complexity of their routines. We posit that diversifying entrants outperform entrepreneurial start-ups when turbulence is high. Further, learning-possible in later industry stages-disproportionately favors entrepreneurial start-ups.