While it is crucial for startups to hire high human capital employees, little is known about what drives the hiring decisions. Considering the stakes for both startups and their hires (i.e., joiners), we examine the phenomenon using a two-sided matching model that explicitly reveals the...

In extant work, two arguments have emerged on the relationship between founders’ experience and startup survival. First, founders’ diverse experiences should foster startup survival because the combination of various experience-based knowledge components drives the needed innovation. Second,...

Prior research suggests that when two firms form an alliance, the more central partner positively impacts the alliance performance through its network position by diffusing information to the end market. At the same time, the end market might value each partner's information differently based on...