Title

The Effect Of The Innovative Environment On Exit Of Entrepreneurial Firms

Keywords

Entrepreneurship; Industry evolution; Innovation; Technological intensity

Abstract

To foster 'creative destruction, 'entrants must survive the turbulent conditions they face in their first crucial years in the industry. We investigate how the external knowledge milieu of an entrant, conceptualized as its innovative environment, causes systematic variation in survival patterns. We test our model from 3,431 firms in 33 industries over 80 years. We depict the innovative environment along two knowledge-related dimensions, namely technology regime and technology intensity. While the aligned state of the innovative environment, where product innovation exists in tandem with abundant innovation opportunities, promotes entrant survival, we find that this beneficial effect is more pronounced for small entrants due to a possible mitigation of scale disadvantages. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publication Date

6-1-2006

Publication Title

Strategic Management Journal

Volume

27

Issue

6

Number of Pages

519-539

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.534

Socpus ID

33646576902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33646576902

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