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| Author: | Davidsson, P Hunter, E. Klofsten, M. |
| Title: | Institutional forces: the invisible hand that shapes venture ideas? |
| Journal: | International Small Business Journal
2006 : APR, VOL. 24:2, p. 115-132 |
| Index terms: | knowledge small business |
| Freeterms: | institutional theory business opportunity new ventures idea incubator location ownership |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The authors have applied the institutional theory approach in order to examine the ways in which external pressure results in changes in the venture idea during the early life of new knowledge-based ventures. Data was gathered among 167 knowledge-intensive firms that participated to a training program at Swedish university at Linköping. The results show that in ventures that have more external owners, a dominant customer and an incubator location the venture idea had undergone more changes. As a conclusion the authors suggest that institutional theory really is an effective tool to understand why and how venture ideas change in process of time. |
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