TY - CHAP
T1 - Business Owner Demography, Human Capital, and Social Networks
AU - Ruef, Martin
AU - Bonikowski, Bart
AU - Aldrich, Howard E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - While early work on the topic of entrepreneurship tended to portray entrepreneurs as heroic individuals (e.g., see Raines & Leathers, 2000, on Schumpeter’s description), more recent perspectives have come to recognize that new business activity is often initiated by groups of startup owners. Starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new generation of scholars in the entrepreneurship field called for a systematic program of research that would document the prevalence of startup teams, describe their properties, and assess their impact on business performance (e.g., Gartner, Shaver, Gatewood, & Katz, 1994; Kamm, Shuman, Seeger, & Nurick, 1990). In a review of developments in entrepreneur research and theory, Gartner et al. (1994) noted that “the ‘entrepreneur’ in entrepreneurship is more likely to be plural, rather than singular” (p. 6). They offered an expansive definition of startup teams, which included owners, investors, organizational decision-makers, family members, advisors, critical suppliers, and buyers as possible candidates for the role of “entrepreneur.”
AB - While early work on the topic of entrepreneurship tended to portray entrepreneurs as heroic individuals (e.g., see Raines & Leathers, 2000, on Schumpeter’s description), more recent perspectives have come to recognize that new business activity is often initiated by groups of startup owners. Starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a new generation of scholars in the entrepreneurship field called for a systematic program of research that would document the prevalence of startup teams, describe their properties, and assess their impact on business performance (e.g., Gartner, Shaver, Gatewood, & Katz, 1994; Kamm, Shuman, Seeger, & Nurick, 1990). In a review of developments in entrepreneur research and theory, Gartner et al. (1994) noted that “the ‘entrepreneur’ in entrepreneurship is more likely to be plural, rather than singular” (p. 6). They offered an expansive definition of startup teams, which included owners, investors, organizational decision-makers, family members, advisors, critical suppliers, and buyers as possible candidates for the role of “entrepreneur.”
KW - Business Owner
KW - Functional Diversification
KW - Institutional Owner
KW - Nascent Entrepreneur
KW - Network Constraint
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-09523-3_6
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-09523-3_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84883967449
T3 - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
SP - 95
EP - 114
BT - International Studies in Entrepreneurship
PB - Springer
ER -