More than half of all attempts to start a business fail. In a quest to help explain the variance in this phenomenon, we develop and test hypotheses related to the role that the objective environment, entrepreneurial perceptions, and start-up activities play in the new venture creation process....

We draw upon resource-based and sociological theories to shed light on nascent entrepreneurs' network development. Employing a unique empirical dataset of nascent entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of venture creation, we examine resource search and homophily as two antecedents of...

In this paper, we use an organizational learning perspective to examine the extent of internationalization of young, technology-based firms. We develop hypotheses on the impact of the firm's knowledge-base at founding, experiential learning, and interorganizational learning on...