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CANCELLED - Foundations of Entrepreneurship
CANCELLED - Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Course
CANCELLED - Foundations of Entrepreneurship
Faculty
Mirjam van Praag (MvP), Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI), Copenhagen Business School
Vera Rocha (VR), Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI), Copenhagen Business School
Ali Mohammadi (AM), Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI), Copenhagen Business
School
Toke Reichstein (TR), Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI), Copenhagen Business School
Course Coordinator
Toke Reichstein (TR), Professor, Department of Strategy and Innovation (SI), Copenhagen Business School
Prerequisites
Participants should have basic knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation theory, of economics and quantitative
research methods such as econometrics and experiments. Basic understanding of core theories of organizations and
strategic management and the economic theory of the firm will be helpful. The course is compulsory for the SI cohort
and open to all PhD students.
Aim
The main goal of the course is to increase familiarity with and develop an in-depth understanding of the key themes
and empirical research methods of entrepreneurship. Emphasis will be put on empirical applications to test theories.
Most of the course will be devoted to teaching how to do empirical research in the domain of entrepreneurship,
broadly defined.
Focus will be on the contributions making use of quantitative methods and data including experiments. Theories,
frameworks, concepts, and controversies that collectively form the foundation for entrepreneurship research are
discussed. The course will aim to build capabilities in critically discussing and developing research questions/projects
in entrepreneurship.
Students will get acquainted with various methodological approaches employed in the field and learn to analytically
review and evaluate academic articles from a diverse body of literature relevant to entrepreneurship research.
Course content
Entrepreneurship is a multidisciplinary research area with contributions from economics, psychology, sociology,
geography, and management to mention a few. No other subject has attracted more scholarly, managerial and policy
attention than the phenomenon of entrepreneurship in recent years.
From macro- and microeconomics to demography and organizational sociology, from finance and business studies to
cognitive psychology, the quest for understanding its antecedents, sources, processes and consequences has
produced a large, vibrant, eclectic field. And with the growing advent of cross-disciplinary, multi-level work employing
specialized panel data sets and more rigorous econometric techniques, initial concerns that the field lacked “a
professional identity defined by a unifying theory” (Thorntorn, 1999; Shane & Venkatmaran, 2000) have abated.
The magnitude of academic interest in entrepreneurship is not surprising given the vitality of it for several key
outcomes. Entrepreneurship has long been considered as an engine of economic growth and regional development
(Schumpeter, 1934; Van Praag and Versloot, 2010). Entrepreneurs have been shown to destroy established
organizational competencies (Tushman & Anderson, 1986), shape evolutionary trajectories of technologies (Nelson &
Winter, 1982), cause substantial regulatory changes (Dobbin & Dowd, 1997) and create, enact and obliterate social
topologies, organizational forms, markets and industries (Nelson & Winter, 1982; Burt, 1992; Carroll & Hannan,
2000). They have been placed at the heart of the theories of income inequality, social mobility and social welfare
(Sorensen, 1996) and ethnic absorption (Waldinger, Aldrich & Ward, 1990) and have been acknowledged to be a
critical driver of the flow and distribution of resources across physical space (Audretsch & Feldman, 1996; Sorenson &
Stuart, 2001). Research has also associated entrepreneurial acts with firm growth and performance (Evans, 1988),
organizational revival (Burgelman, 1983; March, 1991; Zajac, Golden & Shortell, 1991) and global corporate
expansion (Birkinshaw, 1997).
Research Foundations in the Economics of Entrepreneurship is designed to offer an integrative view of how to do
research to better understand why only some individuals but not others choose to become entrepreneurs, why only
some persons but not others discover opportunities and exploit them and why and how eventually only some
ventures succeed.
Teaching style
This course is organized in ten interactive lectures on specific topics. Students are requested to prepare presentations
and to actively participate in class discussion. Assignments also include the development and discussion of a research
proposal.
Professors will primarily discuss their own research to emphasize research strategies and challenges. Altogether, we
make sure that a set of important topics is discussed and that classic contributions to the literature around these
focal themes are included in the course as well.
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Lecture plan
Date Time Session Lecturer
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Monday,
13:00
March 23rd Toke
- Exam
Room: Reichstein
16:00
KL2.53
Friday, mvp.si@cbs.dk
24:00 Research Proposal due
April 3rd tre.si@cbs.dk
Learning objectives
Exam
Participation in class is required. The final grade is NOT determined based upon class participation, but on a written
essay aimed to develop a research paper combining different parts of the syllabus and a three-hour written exam on
(a) specified topic(s) to be discussed (open ended question)
Other
Start date
10/02/2020
End date
09/03/2020
Level
PhD
ECTS
5
Language
English
Course Literature
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References Session 1
Stuart, T. E., & Sorenson, O. (2003). Liquidity events and the geographic distribution of entrepreneurial activity.
Administrative Science Quarterly, 48(2), 175-201.
Özcan, S., & Reichstein, T. (2009). Transition to entrepreneurship from the public sector: Predispositional and
contextual effects. Management Science, 55(4), 604-618.
Zhao, H., & Seibert, S. E. (2006). The big five personality dimensions and entrepreneurial status: A meta-analytical
review. Journal of applied psychology, 91(2), 259.
Sauermann, H. (2018). Fire in the belly? Employee motives and innovative performance in start-ups versus
established firms. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(4), 423-454.
References Session 2
Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang. "Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation." Harvard
Business School Working Paper, No. 17-104, May 2017
Hoogendoorn, S., Oosterbeek, H. & Van Praag, M. (2013). The impact of gender diversity on the performance of
business teams: Evidence from a field experiment. Management Science, 59, 1514-1528
Lyngsie, J., N. Foss (2017) The more, the merrier? Women in top-management teams and entrepreneurship in
established firms. Strategic Management Journal, 38, 487-505.
Ahern K, Dittmar A (2012) The changing of the boards: The impact on firm valuation of mandated female board
representation Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(1), 137–197.
Hoogendoorn, S., Parker, S.C. & van Praag, M. (2017) Smart or diverse start-up teams? Evidence from a field
experiment, Organization Science, 28(6), 1010-1028.
References Session 3
Amit, Brander, Zott, 1998: “Why do Venture Capital Firms Exist? Theory and Canadian Evidence,” Journal of Business
Venturing 13, 441-466.
Demir, Tolga and Mohammadi, Ali and Shafi, Kourosh, Crowdfunding as Gambling: Evidence from Repeated Natural
Experiments (July 31, 2019). Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 19-7. Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3430744 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3430744
Song Ma, The Life Cycle of Corporate Venture Capital, The Review of Financial Studies, , hhz042, https://doi.org
/10.1093/rfs/hhz042
Arthur Korteweg, Morten Sorensen, Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial
Companies, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2010, Pages 3738–3772, https://doi.org
/10.1093/rfs/hhq050
Kaplan, S. N., & Stromberg, P. 2003. Financial contracting theory meets the real world: An empirical analysis of
venture capital contracts. Review of Economic Studies, 70(2): 281-315.
Mohammadi, Ali and Shafi, Kourosh, How Wise Are Crowds? A Comparative Study of Crowds and Institutions in Peer-
to-Business Online Lending Markets (August 15, 2016). Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 17-10;
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2752085
Zhelyazkov, P. I., & Gulati, R. 2016. After the break-up: the relational and reputational consequences of withdrawals
from venture capital syndicates. Academy of Management Journal, 59(1): 277-301.
References Session 4
Elert, N., Andersson, F. W., and Wennberg, K. (2015). The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on
Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 111(1):209–223.
Fairlie, R.W., D. Karlan, and J. Zinman (2015): “Behind the GATE experiment: Evidence on effects of and rationales
for subsidized entrepreneurship training.” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(2): 125-161.
Huber Rosendahl, L. Sloof, R. & van Praag, C.M. (2014), The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence
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from a Field Experiment The European Economic Review, Vol. 72, 11: 76-97
Oosterbeek, H., M. van Praag, and A. IJsselstein (2010): “The impact of entrepreneurship education on
entrepreneurship skills and motivation.” The European Economic Review, 54(3):442–454.
Martin, B., J. McNally and M. Kay (2013). Examining the formation of Human Capital in Entrepreneurship: A Meta-
Analysis of Entrepreneurship Education Outcomes meta-analysis, Journal of Business Venturing, Vol. 28, 2: 211-224
References Session 5
Bernstein, S., Korteweg, A., & Laws, K. 2017. Attracting Early-Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Field
Experiment. Journal of Finance, 72(2), 509-538.
Hvide, H. and G. Panos (2014) Risk Tolerance and Entrepreneurship, Journal of Financial Economics 111(1),
200-223.
Koudstaal, M., Sloof, R. & van Praag, M. (2016), Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-
Field Experiment Management Science, Vol. 62(10), 2897-2915
Zunino, D., G. Duschnitsky & M. van Praag (2019) How do investors evaluate past entrepreneurial failure? Unpacking
failure due to lack of skill versus bad luck in the context of equity crowdfunding, Working Paper.
Moskowitz, T. and A. Vissing-Jørgensen (2002): The returns to entrepreneurial investment: A private equity premium
puzzle? American Economic Review 92(4), 745-778.
References Session 6
Roach, M., Sauermann, H. (2015), “Founder or Joiner? The role of preferences and context in shaping different
entrepreneurial interests”, Management Science, 61(9): 2160-2184.
Rocha, V., van Praag, M. (2019), “Mind the gap: The role of gender in entrepreneurial career choice and social
influence by founders”, Working Paper.
Sauermann, H. (2018) “Fire in the belly? Employee motives and innovative performance in start-ups versus
established firms.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(4): 423-454.
Lazar, M., Miron-Spektor, E., Agarwal, R., Erez, M., Goldfarb, B., Chen, G. (2019) “Entrepreneurial team formation”.
Academy of Management Annals. In press. DOI: 10.5465/annals.2017.0131.
References Session 7
Honoré, F., Ganco, M. (2019). Entrepreneurial teams’ acquisition of talent: Evidence from technology manufacturing
industries using a two-sided approach. Forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal.
Rocha, V., Brymer, R. A. (2019), “Founder pipeline hiring in young firms”, Working Paper.
Rocha, V., Carneiro, A., Varum, C. (2018), “Leaving employment to entrepreneurship: The value of coworker mobility
in pushed and pulled-driven startups”, Journal of Management Studies, 55(1): 60-85.
Rocha, V., van Praag, M., Folta, T. B., Carneiro, A. (2019), “Endogeneity in strategy-performance analysis: An
application to initial human capital strategy and new venture performance”, Organizational Research Methods, 22(3):
740-764.
References Session 8
Feldman, M. P., Ozcan, S., & Reichstein, T. (2019). Falling Not Far from the Tree: Entrepreneurs and Organizational
Heritage. Organization Science, 30(2), 337-360.
Sørensen, J. B., & Fassiotto, M. A. (2011). Organizations as fonts of entrepreneurship. Organization Science, 22(5),
1322-1331.
Dencker JC, Gruber M, Shah S (2009) Pre-entry knowledge, learning, and the survival of new firms. Organ. Sci.
20(3):516–537.
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References Session 9
Shai Bernstein, Xavier Giroud, Richard R. Townsend, 2016. The Impact of Venture Capital Monitoring,Journal of
Finance. 71( 4): 1591-1622.
Shafi, K, Mohammadi, A. and Johan, S. A. (forthcoming): Investment Ties Gone Awry. Academy of Management
Journal, https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.0103.
Chemmanur TJ, Loutskina E, Tian, X. 2014. Corporate venture capital, value creation, and innovation. Review of
Financial Studies 27(8):2434 – 2473.
Xavier Walthoff-Borm, Armin Schwienbacher, Tom Vanacker, 2018, Equity crowdfunding: First resort or last resort?,
Journal of Business Venturing,Volume 33, Issue 4,2018.
Sorensen, M. 2007. How smart is smart money? A two-sided matching model of venture capital. The Journal of
Finance, 62(6): 2725-2762.
Gompers, P. A. 1996. Grandstanding in the venture capital industry. Journal of Financial Economics, 42(1): 133-156.
References Session 10
Hamilton, B. H. (2000). Does entrepreneurship pay? An empirical analysis of the returns to self-employment. Journal
of Political Economy, 108(3), 604–631.
Mahieu, J., Melillo, F., Reichstein, T., & Thompson, P. (2019). Shooting stars? Uncertainty in hiring entrepreneurs.
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
Manso, G. (2016). Experimentation and the returns to entrepreneurship. Review of Financial Studies, 29(9),
2319–2340.
Dillon, E.& Stanton, C. (2017). Self-employment dynamics and the returns to entrepreneurship (National Bureau of
Economic Research Working Paper Series, No. 23168).
Hyytinen, A., & Rouvinen, P. (2008). The labour market consequences of self-employment spells: European evidence.
Labour Economics, 15(2), 246–271.
Fee
DKK 6,500 - EUR 880
Location
30 hours (3 hour lectures, starting in week 7)
Contact information
For the content of the course please contact Course Coordinator Toke Reichstein - tre.smg@cbs.dk
For the administration of the course please contact PhD Adviser Bente S. Ramovic - bsr.research@cbs.dk
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Registration deadline
03/02/2020
Please note that the registration is binding after the registration deadline.
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