Founding Team Capabilities and New Venture Performance: The Mediating Role of Strategic Positional Advantages
研究了新创服务企业中创始团队的市场、市场连接和服务设计能力如何通过可扩展性和可保护性两种战略优势影响企业绩效，解释了以往研究结论不一致的原因。
This study conceptualizes founding team human capital with three multi–item scales that are related to critical functional areas in new service ventures: marketing capabilities, market–linking capabilities, and service design capabilities. We develop and empirically test a theoretical framework linking founding team capabilities to service venture performance through two strategic positional advantages: scalability and protectability. Our results provide insight into previous inconsistent findings regarding founding teams’ impact on new venture performance, offer important managerial implications, and point to future research directions.