Kim Klyver

THE CHANGING IMPORTANCE OF THE STRENGTH OF TIES THROUGHOUT THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS

In this paper we review selected papers on entrepreneurship dealing with Granovetters concept of strong and weak ties in order to systematically organize the articles according to the researchers estimate of what ties are most important.The aim is to find out what the existing research applying the entrepreneurship network approach says about the changing importance of strong and weak ties in different phases of the entrepreneurial process. Thus we investigate how different types of strong and weak ties change in importance according to, which phases of the entrepreneurial process the entrepreneurial act takes place within. Based on these findings, we develop a conceptual framework showing that strong ties, like family, friends and close business contacts, seem to play an important role in the emergence phase. Whereas in the phase of the newly established firm, a mix of strong and weak ties, including new and former business contacts as well as family and friends, seems to play an important role. Furthermore, in the phase of the mature firm a mix of strong and weak ties seem to play the most important role, although the composition of what constitutes this mix is different from the former phase. In the last phase, the mix of strong and weak ties includes special and close business contacts and one-shot deal business contacts. Accordingly, we have identified the changing importance of the strength of ties throughout the entrepreneurial process.

Handbook of research on new venture creation

Contents: PART I: SETTING THE AGENDA 1. New Venture Creation Research: From Established Perspectives to New Horizons Kevin Hindle and Kim Klyver 2. Mapping the Landscape of New Venture Creation Research Kevin Hindle and Dhafar Al Shanfari 3.Whos Asking the Right Question? Patterns and Diversity in the Literature of New Venture Creation Hans Landstrom and Fredrik A...strom 4. Re-imagining The Achieving Society William B. Gartner PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 5. Gender and New Venture Creation Siri Terjesen, Amanda Elam and Candida G. Brush 6. Transgressive Knowledge Creation in Entrepreneurship Deborah Blackman and Miguel Imas 7. What Does the Economic Literature Contribute to Understanding New Venture Creation? John Legge 8. Modelling the Innovative New Venturing Process in Terms of Dialectical Systemic Thinking MatjaA Mulej and Miroslav Rebernik 9. Social Networks and New Venture Creation: The Dark Side of Networks Kim Klyver, Majbritt Rostgaard Evald and Kevin Hindle 10. Entrepreneurial Commitment and New Venture Creation: A Conceptual Exploration Alain Fayolle, Olivier Basso and Erno T. Tornikoski PART III: DATA and MEASUREMENT 11. Are We There Yet? Measurement Challenges in Studying New Ventures Phillip H. Kim and Howard E. Aldrich 12. The New Venture Mortality Myth Jonathan Levie, Gavin Don and Benoit Leleux 13. Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE): Design, Data Collection and Descriptive Results Per Davidsson, Paul Steffens and Scott Gordon PART IV: NVC THROUGH CONTEXTUAL LENSES 14. Cultural Context as a Moderator of Private Entrepreneurship Investment Behavior Fredric Kropp, Noel J. Lindsay and Gary Hancock 15. Perceptual Differences and Perceptual Problems in Providing Government Support for New Venture Creation Malin Brannback, Alan L. Carsrud and Jerome A. Katz 16. Entrepreneurship Education and New Venture Creation: A Comprehensive Approach Torben Bager 17. Managing NVC Research in Institutional Context: An Academic Administrators Perspective Patricia G. Greene 18. Creative Artists and Entrepreneurship Jon Sundbo 19. Post Soviet Societies and New Venture Creation Friederike Welter and David Smallbone Appendix: Distinguishing Entrepreneurship from New Venture Creation Index

New Venture Creation Research: From Established Perspectives to New Horizons

It is the principal aim of this handbook on new venture creation research to contribute to the greater unification of our knowledge through presentation of a diverse range of scholarship on various aspects of the topic. This is not a paradox. Greater unity can only be achieved by canvassing a broad range of perspectives and interests within the field and searching for the common ground. The chapters in this collection are, principally, forward looking works of critique. In soliciting contributions for this volume we did not seek papers that fitted the traditional moulds of either empirically or conceptually oriented studies. Instead, when we issued our call for papers, we stressed that the mission of the book was that of critical commentary. We sought work that would focus on important aspects of new venture creation research and critically discuss, explore, criticise and suggest improvements to the field in that focal area. A reader of this book and any individual chapter within it should obtain a strong sense of both the ‘state-of-the-art’ (what has and has not been done in the field of new venture creation research) and the ‘state of what-could-and should-be’ (future directions the field should take to improve knowledge and address urgent issues). We provided an opportunity for experienced new venture researchers to tell the world not only where the field has been, but where it should be going. Their responses have provided an insightful and stimulating collection of essays which will, we hope, be of great practical value to researchers working in this vital and rapidly expanding field.