This paper explicates the key mechanisms and research themes of industry life‐cycle theory
and assesses the extent to which empirical evidence supports such an approach. It is based …

We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital (VC) booms
and start-up financing, focusing on three broad areas. First, we discuss the drivers of large …

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and
Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into …

Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation has gripped the business consciousness like
few other ideas. In a review of enduring business books, The Economistcalled the theory …

Using an inductive theory-development study, a field experiment, and a longitudinal field
test, we examine early-stage entrepreneurial investment decision making under conditions …

This paper presents a first–ever empirical examination of the effectiveness of signals that
entrepreneurs use to induce (small) investors to commit financial resources in an equity …

Do business accelerators affect new venture performance? We investigate this question in
the context of Start-Up Chile, an ecosystem accelerator. We focus on two treatment …

The Internet is now over four decades old. A survey of its evolution from a military
experiment conducted in the context of the Cold War to a General Purpose Technology …

Using computational and mathematical modeling, this study explores the tension between
too little and too much structure that is shaped by the core tradeoff between efficiency and …

Accelerators are entrepreneurial programs that attempt to help ventures learn, often utilizing
extensive consultation with mentors, program directors, customers, guest speakers, alumni …