The creation of innovative products and services by entrepreneurs is often cited as one of the key strengths of the current American economy. Academics and executives alike are beginning to recognize the advantages of innovation and real-time experimentation over traditional strategic planning...

Analyzes how well venture capitalists (VCs) examine their own decision making processes. Four hypotheses are presented which suggest that VCs do not perform accurate self-examinations regarding their decision criteria, more information decreases their introspection accuracy, using optimal...

Offers a model of new firm creation in the manufacturing industries, in order to rectify a gap in the historical deficiency of entrepreneurship research. The proposed model envisions a way to describe and explain the variance rates across industries or regions. To this end, several...

Convinced that organisational success and survival depends upon entrepreneurial qualities of innovation, flexibility and speed researchers and managers examine the links between strategy research and entrepreneurship research in this collection

Organizational learning capabilities are embedded in organizational communication systems and processes related to knowledge creation and articulation. The emergence of new organizational forms (such as horizontal organizations) in rapidly-changing environments and hyper-competitive markets...

This paper theoretically and empirically connects the literature on high-reliability organizations (HROs) to a broader set of organizations, which we call reliability-seeking organizations. Unlike HROs, which operate high-hazard technologies, reliability-seeking organizations operate in...