WCRS 2008 Presentation Audio
6th West Coast Research Symposium on Technology Entrepreneurship
September 5th & 6th, 2008
University of Washington, Stanford University, University of Southern California, University of Oregon, University of California-Irvine
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Innovation Networks
- Innovation by Business Groups in Taiwan, 1981-2000: The Impact of Strategic Scope
and Market Development on Local Search Arising from Intra-Group Buyer-Supplier Ties
Ishtiaq Mahmood, Chi-Nien Chung, and Will Mitchell, National University of Singapore and Duke University - The Global Technology Collaboration Network: Structure, Trends, and Implications
Melissa Schilling, New York University - Network Plasticity and Collaborative Innovation: Pruning and Pairing Processes in Network Reorganization
Jason Davis, MIT - Discussant: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski - Harvard University
Entrepreneurial Resource Strategies
- Does Money Cost Too Much? The Effect of Going Public on Firm Innovation
Geraldine Wu, New York University - Catalyzing Strategies: How Entrepreneurs Accelerate Inter-Organizational Relationship
Formation to Secure Professional Investments
Benjamin Hallen and Kathleen Eisenhardt, University of Maryland and Stanford University - You Don't Have to be So Cartesian in Dealing with Me: How Emotion Management
Affects Resource Mobilization in Start-ups
Quy Huy and Christoph Zott, INSEAD - Discussant: Gerardo Okhuysen - University of Utah
Dynamic Capabilities
- A Creative Projects Perspective on Entrepreneurial Action
David Obstfeld, Rodney Lacey, and Yan Gong, University of California - Irvine and University of California - Davis - Elucidating the Process of Experiential Learning: Towards a Construal-based View
Christopher Bingham and Jerayr Haleblian, University of North Carolina and University of California - Riverside - Dynamic Capabilities Deconstructed
Margaret Peteraf, Dartmouth College - Discussant: Sonali Shah - University of Washington
Innovation and Performance
- Diversification of Knowledge Assets and Performance: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry
Sharon Matusik and Markus Fitza, University of Colorado - Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Inventor Mobility
Rosemarie Ziedonis, Martin Ganco, and Rajshree Argawal, University of Michigan and University of Illinois - Resource Stocks, Innovation and Persistent Heterogeneity
Tammy Madsen and Michael Leiblein, Santa Clara University and Ohio State University - Discussant: Riitta Katila - Stanford University
Influences of Founders
- Mascot Love: Common Educational Background and Alliance Formation between New Ventures and Established Corporations
Cindi Baldi, Ithai Stern and Janet Dukerich, University of Texas - Austin and Northwestern University - Founder Background and the Adoption of Open Science by For-profit Firms
Waverly Ding, University of California - Berkeley - The Influence of Founder Identity on Opportunity Identification Processes and Opportunity Exploitation Strategies
Sonali Shah, Marc Gruber, and Emmanuelle Fauchart, University of Washington, EPFL, and Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers - Discussant: Christine Beckman - University of California-Irvine
Institutional Entrepreneurship
- Of Porkbellies and Professions: Market Framing and the Creation of Online Advertising Exchanges
Peer Fiss and Mark Kennedy, University of Southern California - Executives' Use of Labels in Emerging Domains of Activity
Nina Granqvist, Stine Grodal, and Jennifer Wooley, Helskinki School of Economics, Boston University, and Santa Clara University - Collective Identity Mobilization in an Emerging Field: The Development of Nanotube Technology
Michael Lounsbury, Tyler Wry, and Mary Ann Glynn, University of Alberta and Boston College - Discussant: Nicolaj Siggelkow - University of Pennsylvania
Dynamics of Foundings
- Entrepreneurial Spawning of Engineers and Scientists: Stars, Slugs, and the Small Firm Effect
Daniel Elfenbein, Barton Hamilton, and Todd Zenger, Washington University - High-technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Opportunities and Opportunity Costs
Robert Fairlie and Aaron Chatterji, University of California - Santa Cruz and Duke University - Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Economic Growth
Sampsa Samila and Olav Sorenson, Brock University and University of Toronto - Discussant: Kaye Schoonhoven, - University of California-Irvine
Developing Entrepreneurial Opportunities
- The Creation and Evolution of Trust: The Case of eBay and its Rivals in Online Auctions
Suresh Kotha and Andy Wicks, University of Washington and University of Virginia - From Pabst to Pepsi: The Desinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Shon Hiatt, Wes Sine, and Pam Tolbert, Cornell University - Discussant: Nathan Furr - Brigham Young University
Entrepreneurship in Alternative Contexts
- Alternate Routes to Corporate Entrepreneurship: Spin-offs versus Management Buyouts
Gaia Rubera and Gerald Tellis, Michigan State University and University of Southern California - Feel as a Stranger at Home? Performance Differentials Between Returnee and Homegrown Entrepreneurs in China's High Technology Industries
Haiyang Li, Yan Zhang, and Li-An Zhou, Rice University and Peking University
Corporate Venture Capital
- Role of Exploratory Subunits in Organizational Ambidexterity: An Inductive Examination of Corporate Venture Capital Units
Sandip Basu, Corey Phelps and Suresh Kotha, California State University - East Bay and University of Washington - Crossing the Species Barrier: How Venture Capital Practices Infiltrated the Information Technology Sector
Vibha Gaba and Alan Meyer, INSEAD and University of Oregon - Discussant: Chris Tucci - EPFL
