In recent years, venture capital firms have increasingly turned to foreign countries in search of investment opportunities. The cross-border expansion of venture capital firms presents an interesting case of internationalization, because they are at variance with both conventional portfolio and...

We argue that higher-status organizations, those facing a greater network constraint, and those whose network partners have already expanded abroad are more likely to pursue opportunities in foreign markets. We also argue that social networks affect how the organization reacts to uncertainty in...

Understanding sequential resource allocation decisions within organizations is central to strategic management and organization theory. However, little is known about the management of sequential investments, and the performance implications thereof. This study aims to contribute to the...

This study examines whether the value a venture derives from an affiliation depends on its relative standing in the portfolio of all affiliations held by its partner. Relative standing refers to how the venture ranks among other ventures in the partner's portfolio with respect to expected...

While recent literature has depicted status as an intangible asset that is firm-specific and mobile, we have a limited understanding of whether status confers advantage in a way similar to other intangible assets. This study examines the macro-structural contingencies that influence the marginal...

This study focuses on the political and institutional influences that lead organizational decision makers to avoid terminating unsuccessful investments, even when there is competition and they have the experience and incentives to maximize profits. I examine multilevel influences on sequential...

We propose that home-country network advantages shape the pattern of foreign expansion of firms. We argue that social status advantage is transferable from one market to another as a signal of quality, while brokerage advantage is more context-specific and difficult to transfer. Furthermore, the...

In this paper, we examine how the configuration of intra-organizational networks, and in particular, cohesion among members of an organization, influences organizations' innovative output. We argue that the cohesion among R&D scientists could be at a local level or a global level, and that local...

This study empirically examines how firms manage real options over time in the context of the U.S. venture capital industry. It tracks the venture-capital funding histories of U.S. portfolio companies founded during 1989-1993, and their outcomes, until 2004. An examination of sequential...

This study explores the role of knowledge interdependencies on the termination of patented inventions. Termination refers to the abandonment of inventive efforts that are no longer deemed promising. We argue that high interdependencies between an inventive effort and the other inventions in the...