Management Teams' Composition and Academic Spin-Offs' Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Theoretical Approach

Juan Pablo Dianez-Gonzalez, Carmen Camelo-Ordaz and Jose Ruiz-Navarro

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Abstract: This chapter has been designed with the purpose of providing a theoretical approach regarding the influence of both the composition of academic spin-offs' management teams and the entrepreneurial orientation exhibited by such firms on the performance of academic spin-offs. To this end, we have drawn on the main theoretical premises of the upper echelon theory, and we have specifically focused on the impact exerted by the proportion of nonacademic managers within management teams, the heterogeneity of such teams with respect to the age and main educational area of their managers, as well as the potential mediating role of the entrepreneurial orientation. From the literature review carried out and the main arguments of the chapter will be expected a further empirical development.

Keywords: academic spin-offs; management team composition; nonacademic managers; upper echelon theory; management team age heterogeneity; management team educational heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/65270

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