Seminar by Prof. Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna
Event details
| Date | 21.10.2016 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:30 |
| Speaker | Prof. Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
"Knowledge Creation in Research Organizations: The Impact of Hybrid Entrepreneurship on Individual Performance"
Résumé
We study how hybrid entrepreneurship – pursuing entrepreneurship while retaining full-time employment – affects an individual’s performance relative to peers in research organizations. Building on research that links learning and relative performance, we argue that hybrid entrepreneurship increases the likelihood of achieving top research performance, and we posit that this relationship is facilitated by both the exploration of new scientific domains and improvements in mean scientific quality. Furthermore, we argue that an entrepreneur’s established interpersonal relationships with distant others inside the research organization constrains the mediating effect of exploration and enhances the mediating effect of mean scientific quality on the chances of achieving top research performance. Socialization within an organization therefore represents a boundary condition for the performance-enhancing effect of becoming a hybrid entrepreneur. Using panel data on 9,502 academics employed between 2001 and 2011 at Imperial College London, we find support for our hypotheses. The findings have implications for understanding the value of engaging in hybrid entrepreneurship, the role of socialization for achieving top performance in research organizations, and the antecedents and consequences of exploration at the individual level.
Résumé
We study how hybrid entrepreneurship – pursuing entrepreneurship while retaining full-time employment – affects an individual’s performance relative to peers in research organizations. Building on research that links learning and relative performance, we argue that hybrid entrepreneurship increases the likelihood of achieving top research performance, and we posit that this relationship is facilitated by both the exploration of new scientific domains and improvements in mean scientific quality. Furthermore, we argue that an entrepreneur’s established interpersonal relationships with distant others inside the research organization constrains the mediating effect of exploration and enhances the mediating effect of mean scientific quality on the chances of achieving top research performance. Socialization within an organization therefore represents a boundary condition for the performance-enhancing effect of becoming a hybrid entrepreneur. Using panel data on 9,502 academics employed between 2001 and 2011 at Imperial College London, we find support for our hypotheses. The findings have implications for understanding the value of engaging in hybrid entrepreneurship, the role of socialization for achieving top performance in research organizations, and the antecedents and consequences of exploration at the individual level.
Practical information
- General public
- Free