The embeddedness of routines in the formation of small biotechnology firms

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dc.contributor.author	Houman Andersen, Poul	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Norus, Jesper	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-02-04T10:24:24Z
dc.date.available	2009-02-04T10:24:24Z
dc.date.issued	2004-01-23T00:00:00Z	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6717
dc.description.abstract	There is a continuing focus on the conditions for and processes of establishing new businesses and the role played by the external resource context in doing so. Using sociological concepts such as network bricolage and structuration some studies point to the supporting role as well as the restraining role of networks in this process. However, most research focuses on the innovative role of entrepreneurs in linking together dispersed resources in forming a concerted business enterprise. Far less focus has been on the de facto quality of these resources in forming the entrepreneurial role. Rather, the image of the Knightian or Kriznian entreprenur is left unchallenged, even in the "new" literature on entrepreneurship. However, if the concept of network bricolage or structuration as contexts institutionalising specific practices and sorting away others is taken seriously, the preexistence of patterned work practices shared among business actors, and how the ability to utilise these patterned practices in generating new business ideas affects the business start up process becomes important. Entrepreneurial processes may not only be influenced but also internally constituted by the wider environment. One may therefore question whether the impetus for starting up a new business vests entirely with the entrepreneur or what role the context plays in patterning the work of the entrepreneur with respect to firm creation. As pointed out by Gartner (1988) asking "who is the entrepreneur?" is the wrong question. For that purpose, we believe that the context of the entrepreneur, networks and embedded routines, provides an opportunity to understand how the context contributes in shaping the entrepreneurial act.	en_US
dc.format.extent	27 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working paper;2003-10	en_US
dc.subject.other	bioteknologi	en_US
dc.subject.other	biotekindustri	en_US
dc.subject.other	iværksættere	en_US
dc.subject.other	virksomhedens etablering	en_US
dc.subject.other	netværksorganisation	en_US
dc.title	The embeddedness of routines in the formation of small biotechnology firms	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt04jan23 inrumo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Organisation og Arbejdssociologi	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	IOA	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	OIS
dc.idnumber	x645152152	en_US
dc.publisher.city	København	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2003	en_US