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Examining Heterogeneity in Entrepreneurial Strategies in an Emerging High-Tech Industry. The Role of Founder Experience and Knowledge Structure in the Lithium-Ion Battery Industry.
In emergent high technology industries, entrepreneurs and their new ventures play a critical role in enhancing economic growth. In these industries, we can easily see some new ventures grow more rapidly to outperform their competitors. However, looking beyond the surface, new ventures' growth path is idiosyncratic. More specifically, when growing, new ventures pursue different paths in terms of 1) which technologies they develop, 2) which products they make, and 3) what markets they enter. The question that has struck me is why high-tech new ventures differ on these key strategic choices. Building on literature on entrepreneurship, strategy, industry evolution, and network, this dissertation tries to answer this important question by focusing on intra-firm factors, more specifically, the individual and structural attributes of new ventures. Types of founder experience and new ventures' knowledge structure are examined in depth. My three studies, each presented as a separate essay herein, investigate how individual (i.e. founder experience) and structural attributes (i.e. knowledge structure) affect key strategic choices regarding i) product market scope (Wernerfelt and Montgomery, 1988), ii) technological search scope (Katila and Ahuja, 2002), and iii) the types of new products (Sanchez and Mahoney, 1996; Henderson and Clark, 1990), respectively. In each, I discuss the relevant theories, methodology, data sources, results and implications. By investigating intra-firm factors that trigger different entrepreneurial strategies, my dissertation responds to an important call -- micro-foundation of strategy formation -- thus filling a key gap in the entrepreneurship literature.
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机译：在新兴的高科技产业中，企业家及其新企业在促进经济增长中发挥着关键作用。在这些行业中，我们可以很容易地看到一些新创企业成长更快，超过了竞争对手。但是，从表面上看，新企业的成长道路是异质的。更具体地说，新兴企业在成长时会沿着不同的道路前进：1）他们开发哪些技术，2）他们制造哪些产品以及3）他们进入什么市场。我想到的问题是，为什么高科技新兴企业在这些关键战略选择上会有所不同。本文基于有关企业家精神，战略，行业发展和网络的文献，试图通过关注企业内部因素，更具体地说是新企业的个体和结构属性来回答这一重要问题。创始人经验的类型和新企业的知识结构将得到深入研究。我的三项研究均在本文中作为单独的文章提出，研究了个人（即创始人经验）和结构属性（即知识结构）如何影响有关i）产品市场范围（Wernerfelt and Montgomery，1988），ii）技术搜索的关键战略选择。范围（Katila和Ahuja，2002），以及iii）新产品的类型（Sanchez和Mahoney，1996； Henderson和Clark，1990）。在每篇文章中，我都会讨论相关的理论，方法论，数据来源，结果和含义。通过调查触发不同创业策略的公司内部因素，我的论文回应了一个重要的呼唤-战略形成的微观基础-从而填补了创业文献中的一个关键空白。
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