Pre-Entry Knowledge, Learning, and the Survival of New Firms (2009)
Dencker, John C., Gruber, Marc, Shah, Sonali K.
New firms are endowed with knowledge and experience at birth through the human capital of their founder(s). Existing empirical research suggests that this pre-entry knowledge and experience will...
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Bericht 2007 zum Unternehmertum in der Schweiz und weltweit. (2008)
Thierry Volery, Heiko Bergmann, Marc Gruber, Georges Haour, Benoit Leleux
Der Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) ist ein internationales Forschungsprojekt, das 1997 von der London Business School (UK) und dem Babson College (USA) ins Leben gerufen wurde. Das GEM-Projekt...
Look Before You Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms (2008)
Gruber, Marc, MacMillan, Ian C., Thompson, James D.
Entrepreneurs play a fundamental role in bringing new technologies to market. Because technologies are often configurable to serve a variety of different markets, it is possible for entrepreneurs to...
Franke, Nikolaus, Gruber, Marc, Harhoff, Dietmar, Henkel, Joachim
The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists' evaluations of venture proposals. Our findings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs' team...
Champions of Revealing – The Role of Open Source Developers in Commercial Firms (2008)
Joachim Henkel, Eric Brousseau, Linus Dahl, Marc Gruber, Dietmar Harhoff, Simone Käs, ...
The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSS community is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principalagent issue due to the...
Researchers are engaged in a major debate on the value of business planning in new venture creation. This study suggests a potential resolution by applying a process and contingency perspective. The...
An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is the formation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS). Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the...
Franke, Nikolaus, Gruber, Marc, Harhoff, Dietmar, Henkel, Joachim
This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist's decision making. We contribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarities between a venture capitalist...
Managing the process of new venture creation: an integrative perspective (2006)
The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics contains a diverse selection of chapters written by some of the most distinguished scholars in their fields. This comprehensive volume is logically...
Venture capitalists' evaluation of start-up teams: A discrete choice conjoint analysis (2006)
Gruber, Marc, Franke, Nikolaus, Harhoff, Dietmar, Henkel, Joachim
novative Unternehmensgründungen spielen für Wachstum, Wohlstand, technologischen Fortschritt und internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes eine zentrale Rolle. Zu ihren wichtigsten...
Process Matters - Empirical Evidence on the Value of Marketing Planning in VC-backed Startups (2005)
Entrepreneurial Marketing (2004)
Entrepreneurship is one of the youngest disciplines in the area of business administration. Hence, there is a special need for literature that can be used in teaching and that can serve as a basis...
Research on marketing in emerging firms: key issues and open questions (2003)
In many industries, emerging firms derive their initial strength from R&D activities. Though technological capabilities are important for building technologically sound products, they are not...
Research on marketing in emerging firms: key issues and open questions (2003)
In many industries, emerging firms derive their initial strength from R&D activities. Though technological capabilities are important for building technologically sound products, they are not...
Research on Marketing in Emerging Firms: Key Issues and Open Questions (2003)
In many industries, emerging firms derive their initial strength from R&D activities. Though technological capabilities are important for building technologically sound products, they are not...
Gruber, Marc, Kolpatzik, Bernd W., Schönhut, Jürgen, Venter, Claudia
This article focuses on activities of corporate foresight that constitute one of the core elements of strategic innovation management. Hence, corporate foresight plays a crucial role for the mid- to...
Gruber, Marc, Henkel, Joachim, Witzler, Ralf
Sie haben einen Geistesblitz? Sie planen Großes und fragen sich: Wie lässt sich meine Vision verwirklichen? Keine leichte Aufgabe. Denn eine griffige Geschäftsidee ist nur die Initialzündung für...
Marketing in New Ventures: Theory and Empirical Evidence (2002)
Marketing is considered to be of utmost importance for the success of new ventures. Therefore, research on entrepreneurial marketing has increased considerably since the late 1980s. Its findings are...
Die Bewertung von Gründerteams durch Venture Capital-Geber (2002)
Gruber, Marc, Franke, Nikolaus, Henkel, Joachim, Hoisl, Karin
Der Wandel von Erfolgsfaktoren mittelständischer Unternehmen (2000)
Wie schaffen es mittelständische Unternehmen über eine längere Zeit erfolgreich zu sein? Welche Faktoren sind für ihren anhaltenden Erfolg ausschlaggebend? Wie wandeln sich die Erfolgsfaktoren im...
Der Wandel von Erfolgsfaktoren mittelständischer Unternehmen / (2000)
Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, St. Gallen, 2000.
Thesis (doctoral)--Hochschule St. Gallen für Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2000.
Diss. Nr. 2408 Wirtschaftswiss. St. Gallen.
Marketing In New Ventures: Theory And Empirical Evidence
Marketing is considered to be of utmost importance for the success of new ventures. Therefore, research on entrepreneurial marketing has increased considerably since the late 1980s. Its findings are...
Knowledge Acquisition Activities, Prior Knowledge and Experience and the Survival of New Firms
Dencker, John C., Gruber, Marc, Shah, Sonali
Knowledge acquisition activities occurring after entry may be just as critical to firm survival as pre-existing knowledge and experience, because knowledge acquisition activities enable the...