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Analysis of data from the European biotech industry supports these predictions.The prevailing view of employee entrepreneurship is that the established firm's unwillingness to commercialize an employee's ideas leads to the employee leaving to start a new firm. However, evidence suggests that spinout activity (new firm formation by former employees) can be also triggered by adverse developments in the established firm that disrupt an employee's job. This study examines how the organizational antecedents of spinouts shape the new firms' early‐stage strategic choices. Using data from the biotech industry, I show that opportunity driven spinouts are more likely to enter a different but related industry and technological field to those of their founders' prior employer and that necessity driven spinouts are more likely to target the same industry and technological field as the prior employer.","PeriodicalId":51417,"journal":{"name":"Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Spawned by opportunity or out of necessity? 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Spawned by opportunity or out of necessity? Organizational antecedents and the choice of industry and technology in employee spinouts
I examine how the organizational antecedents of spinouts shape the new firms' industry and technological trajectory choices compared to those of the parent firms. Building on prior research on employee entrepreneurship and integrating insights from the literature on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship, I hypothesize that spinouts launched to exploit a new business opportunity shunned by the parent firm (i.e., opportunity spinouts) are more likely to enter a different but related industry and technological field to those of the parent firm. I hypothesize also that spinouts triggered by adverse developments in the parent firm (i.e., necessity spinouts) are more likely to target the same industry and technological field as the parent. Analysis of data from the European biotech industry supports these predictions.The prevailing view of employee entrepreneurship is that the established firm's unwillingness to commercialize an employee's ideas leads to the employee leaving to start a new firm. However, evidence suggests that spinout activity (new firm formation by former employees) can be also triggered by adverse developments in the established firm that disrupt an employee's job. This study examines how the organizational antecedents of spinouts shape the new firms' early‐stage strategic choices. Using data from the biotech industry, I show that opportunity driven spinouts are more likely to enter a different but related industry and technological field to those of their founders' prior employer and that necessity driven spinouts are more likely to target the same industry and technological field as the prior employer.
期刊介绍:
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is a research journal that publishes original work recommended by a developmental, double-blind review process conducted by peer scholars. Strategic entrepreneurship involves innovation and subsequent changes which add value to society and which change societal life in ways which have significant, sustainable, and durable consequences. The SEJ is international in scope and acknowledges theory- and evidence-based research conducted and/or applied in all regions of the world. It is devoted to content and quality standards based on scientific method, relevant theory, tested or testable propositions, and appropriate data and evidence, all replicable by others, and all representing original contributions. The SEJ values contributions which lead to improved practice of managing organizations as they deal with the entrepreneurial process involving imagination, insight, invention, and innovation and the inevitable changes and transformations that result and benefit society.