The effect of the innovative environment on exit of entrepreneurial firms

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Sarkar, M. B.; Echambadi, Raj; Agarwal, Rajshree; Sen, Bisakha
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.534
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 519-539
• 关键词: Entrepreneurship; technological intensity; industry evolution; INNOVATION

摘要

To foster 'creative destruction,' entrants must survive the turbulent conditions they face in their first crucial years in the industry. We investigate how the external knowledge milieu of an entrant, conceptualized as its innovative environment, causes systematic variation in survival patterns. We test our model from 3,431 firms in 33 industries over 80 years. We depict the innovative environment along two knowledge-related dimensions, namely technology regime and technology intensity. While the aligned state of the innovative environment, where product innovation exists in tandem with abundant innovation opportunities, promotes entrant survival, we find that this beneficial effect is more pronounced for small entrants due to a possible mitigation of scale disadvantages. Copyright (c) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.