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| Author: | Shane, S. Khurana, R. |
| Title: | Bringing Individuals Back In: the Effects of Career Experience On New Firm Founding |
| Journal: | Industrial and Corporate Change
2003 : SEP, VOL.12:3, p.519-543 |
| Index terms: | CAREER DEVELOPMENT CAREERS COMPANIES ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, research on organizational foundings has largely focused on societal and population-level explanations. This paper takes the view that understanding firm foundings also requires linking to individual-level processes. The authors suggest that careers are an important mechanism linking individual-level processes to firm foundings. The firm- founding experience of potential founders impacts organizational foundings. The authors test the explanation on the set of inventions patented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over the period 1980-1996 by examining the effect of inventors' career experiences on the likelihood that an invention will be commercialized through the founding of a new organization. |
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