作者：Beckman, Christine M.; Burton, M. Diane
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We contrast life-cycle and path-dependent views of entrepreneurial firms by examining the evolution of top management teams. We show how initial conditions constrain subsequent outcomes by demonstrating that the founding team's prior functional experiences and initial organizational functional structures predict subsequent top manager backgrounds and later functional structures. We find that narrowly experienced teams have trouble adding functional expertise not already embodied in the team. W...
