Japanese corporate ventures: Success curve

A meta-analytic review of effectuation and venture performance

“…Affordable Loss (Bamford et al, 2004) Deposit and loan growth Liquidity and leverage risk position 490 − 0.061 (Fombrun and Wally, 1989) Profit and growth Risk taking (reverse scored) 95 − 0.090 (Ohe et al, 1992) Success index Risk distribution 38 0.460 (Tan, 2007) Performance and profitability Defensiveness and (reverse coded) risk taking 160 − 0.220 ⁎ R = relevant to effectuation, I = irrelevant to effectuation (applies only to Means-What I know and Means-Who I am). (Dalton et al, 2003) and ran all our meta-analyses again.…”

Internal corporate venturing: a review of (almost) five decades of literature

“…• And, unsurprisingly, higher market and technical risk are associated with lower venture success (Ohe et al 1992;Sykes 1986).…”

Corporate incubators as knowledge brokers between business units and ventures

“…Through their parent company, corporate incubators can obtain very specific knowledge and make it accessible to ventures. Ohe et al (1992) found that management support and product knowledge from business units are crucial for the successful performance of ventures. The study also indicates that the success of the ventures correlates with the increase of provided marketing know-how.…”

“…To guarantee the exchange of acquired knowledge, business units should be involved in the search for new ventures (Ford et al, 2010;Chen and Kannan-Narasimhan, 2015). Ohe et al (1992) conclude in their study that new ventures are associated with many uncertainties and that the "common sense" knowledge that each individual will apply in dealing with these uncertainties is less common than is often anticipated. For this reason, the authors recommend that incubators place much emphasis on the definition of suitable and comprehensible selection criteria.…”