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What Turns Knowledge into Innovative Products? The Role of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Spillovers

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; Zhou, Zhou, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

entrepreneurship with respect to economic performance. This paper uses the knowledge spillover theory to explain different innovation …-to-the-market innovation but has no effect on the relationship between knowledge and new-to-the-firm innovation. Our results using European … chances that knowledge will become new-to-the-market innovation. The findings highlight the importance of Schumpeterian …

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Attractive Supervisors: How Does the Gender of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of the Supervisees?

Koellinger, Philipp; Block, Joern H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012

A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted in which single-sex groups of male or female students competed in different intellectual tasks to earn money or university grades (N = 291). The supervisor of these groups was one of several young and attractive males or females. The...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Large Family and Founder Firms

Block, Joern H.; Wagner, Wagner, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

Based on arguments about long-term orientation and corporate reputation, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility. Using Bayesian analysis, we then show that family and founder ownership are associated with a lower level of...

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The Social Capital of Venture Capitalists and Its Impact on the Funding of Start-Up Firms

Block, Joern H.; Alexy, Alexy, O.T.; Sandner, Sandner, P.G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? Extant entrepreneurship literature conceptualizes a substitute effect between the social and financial capital that new firms attain from their investors. On the contrary, by building on the rich social...

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I Can’t Get No Satisfaction - Necessity Entrepreneurship and Procedural Utility

Block, Joern H.; Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008

We study a unique sample of 1,547 nascent entrepreneurs in Germany and analyze which factors are associated with their start-up satisfaction. Our results identify a group of nascent entrepreneurs that “cannot get satisfaction” with their start-up because they did not choose to become...

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Business Takeover or New Venture? Individual and Environmental Determinants from a Cross-Country Study

Block, Joern H.; Thurik, Roy; van der Zwan, van der … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010

risk tolerance, the country’s level of innovation output, and the administrative difficulty of starting a new business are …

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Peer Influence in Network Markets: An Empirical Investigation

Block, Joern H.; Koellinger, Philipp - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007

We analyze the effect of peer influence on the diffusion of an innovative network good. We argue that the adopters of a network good have an incentive to convince others to purchase the same product because their utility depends on the number of other users. This peer-effect influences...

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