A general assumption is that early entry into themarket with a new venture is advantageous, increasing the profit potential.However, empirical research suggests that pioneers have a greater risk offailure than later entrants. A model is proposed of the entry timing decision that depends both...

This chapter describes the contribution of the operations management (OM) field to entrepreneurship and startup practices in terms of extant knowledge, emergent trends and research opportunities. To characterize the extant knowledge, we review relevant literature in the first half of the chapter...

Exploration-exploitation research to date has understudied the issue of multiple performance dimensions and their potential trade-offs, which leaves the application of its theory to the context of start-ups exposed to blind spots. The importance of acquisition likelihood as a performance outcome...

The scope of the activities performed by the platform sponsor vis-à-vis the complementors is one of the key decisions that platform sponsors must continually make. Yet, the implications of alternative scope decisions are not well understood. This article delves deeper into platform sponsors’...

The focus of this research is to determine theoptimal balance for all stakeholders between pre-investment activities andpost-investment activities of a venture capital firm, and in turn, how thisoptimal balance is different from what is desired by the various stakeholders(entrepreneurs,...

We study the events that motivate CEOs to underinvest in R&D long-term projects (CEO myopia). Based on the existing literature in earnings management and agency theory, myopia is likely to become more problematic under five circumstances: when the CEO nears retirement (the CEO horizon problem),...