Member experience, use of external assistance and evaluation of business ideas

by Maw-Der Foo

How do members' experience and external interactions shape evaluation of the team's business idea? With a sample of 74 teams that participated in a business idea competition, we showed that experience as defined by size, mean work experience, and assistance from individuals with business founding experience related positively to the teams' business idea evaluations. The benefits of external founders are more pronounced for smaller than for larger teams. Having a founder in the team did not relate to idea evaluation but interaction effects showed smaller sized teams had worse evaluations if they did not have a founder in the team.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Foo, Maw Der
Published in:	Journal of small business management : JSBM ; a joint publ. 4 times a year of the International Council for Small Business and the West Virginia University Bureau of Business Research. - Malden, Mass [u.a] : Blackwell, ISSN 0047-2778, ZDB-ID 860752-7. - Vol. 48.2010, 1, p. 32-43
Subject:	Vorschlagswesen \| Employee suggestion system \| Bewertung \| Evaluation \| Führungsstil \| Leadership style

Extent:	Diagramme
Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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