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Author: | Ruef, M. Aldrich, H. E. Carter, N. M. |
Title: | The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs |
Journal: | American Sociological Review
2003 : APR, VOL. 68:2, p. 195-222 |
Index terms: | USA GROUPS TEAM DEVELOPMENT TEAM WORK |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | The mechanisms governing the composition of formal social groups (e.g., task groups, organizational founding teams) remain poorly understood, owing to (1) a lack of representative sampling from groups found in the general population, (2) a "success" bias among researchers that leads them to consider only those groups that actually emerge and survive, and (3) a restrictive focus on some theorized mechanisms of group composition to the exclusion of others. These shortcomings are addressed by analyzing a unique, representative data set of organizational founding teams sampled from the U.S. population. Rather than simply considering the properties of those founding teams that are empirically observed, a novel quantitative methodology generates the distribution of all possible teams. |
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