Birds of a feather get lost together: New venture team composition and performance

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 727-743

  Steffens, Paul ^a   Terjesen, Siri ^b   Davidsson, Per ^a,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Homophily; New venture performance; New venture teams; Team diversity; Team heterogeneity; Team homogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865993772     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9358-z     Document Type: Article

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