Entrepreneurial inception: The role of imprinting in entrepreneurial action

Mathias, Blake D.; Williams, David W.; Smith, Adam

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.07.004

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“…Specifically, these companies benefited by having two distinct sets of nonoverlapping competencies related to the two founding families that enabled them to complement each other while jointly sharing ownership in the business and ultimately prevented arguments and disagreements about roles and responsibilities. Our research supports the logic that founder influence can persist well into the life of the firm, complementing extant literature on organizational imprinting (Baron et al, 1999;Mathias et al, 2015;Schein, 1983;Simsek et al, 2015). In particular, the results of our study inform the emergent research on second-hand imprinting (Jaskiewicz et al, 2015) by showing that founders can leave an organizational blueprint through particular firm-level decision-making processes long after the founder has left the organization.…”

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The Persistence of Multifamily Firms: Founder Imprinting, Simple Rules, and Monitoring Processes

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Smith

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This study focuses on a particular form of family businesses-businesses with at least two unrelated founding families-and how their organizational form of a multifamily business persists over several generations. Using an inductive approach to study five multifamily cases, we discovered that these firms did not meet complexity with complex structures and processes. Instead, four cases developed and utilized simple rules imprinted by the founders and pulled through to current generations, enabling effective mutual monitoring and persistence of the multifamily organizational form. The lack of simple rules development is associated with one multifamily business to abandon this organizational form.

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“…The bulk of extant literature, including the present study, focuses on imprinting on the organization. For a study investigating the imprinting process for individuals, seeMathias et al (2015).…”

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The Persistence of Multifamily Firms: Founder Imprinting, Simple Rules, and Monitoring Processes

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Smith

Kudlats

et al. 2015

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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“…Drawing from research on scientist founders, we hypothesized that the scientist career imprint translates to an appreciation for open innovation in innovative start‐ups. This has important implications for research that calls attention to the important ways in which entrepreneurs’ previous career experiences affect their business decisions (Bryant, ; Mathias et al, ). We further illustrate that, to understand the consequences of imprints internalized by entrepreneurs prior to founding their ventures, it is important for researchers to consider the number of founders who possess a specific career imprint and the characteristics of the imprinted organization.…”

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How do Scientists Contribute to the Performance of Innovative Start‐ups? An Imprinting Perspective on Open Innovation

Hahn

Minola

Eddleston

2018

J Management Studies

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Our study illustrates how scientists contribute to the performance of innovative start‐ups through an analysis of 211 Italian start‐ups with and without scientist founders. Building upon imprinting theory, we hypothesize and find that scientists provide an advantage to innovative start‐ups to the extent that they stimulate open innovation (i.e., search breadth and depth). However, for this to effectively occur, the involvement of multiple scientist founders is needed, so that their career imprints internalized in the lab are successfully transferred to the start‐up. Moreover, if the start‐up embraces business practices (i.e., strategic planning) or departs from scientific logics (i.e., pursuing non‐commercial goals), scientists’ contribution is further increased. Therefore, our study illustrates how the scientist career imprint can provide an advantage to innovative start‐ups with multiple scientists, but also how it can act as a rigidity if the start‐up does not pursue strategic planning or emphasizes non‐commercial goals.

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“…As research examining family's role in entrepreneurship and family business continues to grow, examining the impact of parenting on important outcomes could prove beneficial for answering several calls (Aldrich and Cliff, 2003;Mathias, Williams and Smith, 2015;Schoon and Duckworth, 2012) to understand how lifespan development affects entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial families. For family business and entrepreneurship researchers who want to include attachment and parenting styles in their studies, these concepts can be operationalised in several different ways.…”

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Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

Jiang

Hayward

Morris

2017

IJMED

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For years, family business researchers have argued that many areas of entrepreneurship research have unnaturally separated the social institutions of family and business, calling for more exploration of the pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship. Recent research has started to explore these effects within a family business context, but scholars still do not know much about how other family environments influence entrepreneurship. Using a family systems theoretical perspective, this conceptual paper addresses how developmental aspects of parenting and family environments, both inside and outside a family business context, contribute to the expression of entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours in adulthood. The most theoretically novel aspects of this paper focus on how family business contexts amplify links between entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours.

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Entrepreneurial inception: The role of imprinting in entrepreneurial action

Cited by 215 publications

References 57 publications

The Persistence of Multifamily Firms: Founder Imprinting, Simple Rules, and Monitoring Processes

The Persistence of Multifamily Firms: Founder Imprinting, Simple Rules, and Monitoring Processes

How do Scientists Contribute to the Performance of Innovative Start‐ups? An Imprinting Perspective on Open Innovation

Raising entrepreneurs: can parenting style amplify entrepreneurial intentions and behaviours?

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