Abstract Research Summary Founders often tap their prior employment or educational affiliations to facilitate employee mobilization and post-hiring integration. But, how do these affiliation-based hiring (ABH) tactics relate to venture performance? We theorize that ABH generally helps founders fulfill relational…
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Entrepreneurial curiosity and firm innovation: Exploring the mediating role of information search in new technology ventures
Abstract Innovation is considered an important ingredient for new venture survival. However, our understanding of the role of individual entrepreneurs in facilitating its occurrence is relatively limited. While it is often claimed that curiosity is important in entrepreneurship, there is…