Competence of Top Management Teams and Success of New Technology-Based Firms

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-9

3. Fundamental research terms

   Pages 10-25

4. Theories regarding entrepreneurial and management competencies and the development of new technology-based firms

   Pages 26-85

5. Empirical evidence about competence and the development of new firms

   Pages 86-114

6. Conceptual framework: Entrepreneurial-management-competence and its effects on task complexity and the success of new firms

   Pages 115-149

7. Research process, sample and method

   Pages 150-172

8. Presentation of the measurement model

   Pages 173-221

9. Empirical findings

   Pages 222-255

10. Discussion of central findings and implications

    Pages 256-266

11. Back Matter

    Pages 267-304

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Foreword Research on the creation and development of new firms has gained substantial prominence over the past ten years - especially in the German-speaking countries, where many new entrepreneurship chairs have been created in universities. Despite the surge in interest, short-comings in the research domain remain. These shortcomings primarily concern the lack of solid empirical research that reflects the state of the art of management science. Based on psychological theories, expla- tions of the founding of a firm and its subsequent success have been made frequently in terms of character traits and attitudes. Yet these studies explain little about a new firm’s success. Their usefulness was especially limited concerning team-based ventures, which represent the majority of technology-based ventures. Other more recent approaches focus on entrepreneurial activities and how they impact new venture development. In this stream of research, the competence perspective has special importance as competencies of founders determine which activities they undertake, and how they perform these activities. A key question has been raised often by entrepreneurs, researchers and educators with respect to competencies of the founders: What are the critical competencies needed to create and grow a new firm? Although this is a fundamental question of entrepreneurship research, this question has hardly been investigated empirically. The dissertation of Dr. Jan Brinckmann analyzes how competencies of founding teams of new technology based firms affect the development of the new firms. In order to identify the critical competencies needed to create and grow a firm, Dr.

• Entrepreneurship
• Gründerteams
• Gründungserfolg
• Junge Unternehmen
• Management
• NTBF
• Technologieunternehmen

Dr. Jan Brinckmann promovierte bei Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Gemünden am Lehrstuhl für Technologie und Innovationsmanagement der Technischen Universität Berlin. Er ist Assistant Professor an der School of Business Admistration der Loyola University Chicago, USA.

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