The relational antecedents of project-entrepreneurship: Network centrality, team composition and project performance Export

@article{citeulike:6006848, abstract = {The relational antecedents of project-based enterprises have not yet received systematic investigation. These ventures are typically created by individual freelancers who are usually embedded in networks of collaborative relationships that convey the information and resources required to carry out new projects. Using a relational perspective of entrepreneurial discovery and team composition, we analyze the performance determinants of project-entrepreneurs, namely the individuals who are responsible for launching and carrying out those projects. We argue that project-entrepreneurs' performance is related to their degree of centrality within the social network, and their familiarity with the selected project-team as captured by the distribution of ties among team members. We test our hypotheses within the Hollywood Film Industry over the period 1992–2003. The findings point to the existence of diminishing returns to centrality and performance benefits from assembling teams that combine old-timers and newcomers. The theoretical contributions and implications of the study are discussed.}, author = {Ferriani, Simone and Cattani, Gino and Baden-Fuller, Charles}, citeulike-article-id = {6006848}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.09.001}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S004873330900167X}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1016/j.respol.2009.09.001}, issn = {00487333}, journal = {Research Policy}, keywords = {antecedents, centrality, composition, network, performance, project, project-entrepreneurship, relational, team}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 10:57:36}, priority = {3}, title = {The relational antecedents of project-entrepreneurship: Network centrality, team composition and project performance}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.09.001}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6006848 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6006848 N2 - The relational antecedents of project-based enterprises have not yet received systematic investigation. These ventures are typically created by individual freelancers who are usually embedded in networks of collaborative relationships that convey the information and resources required to carry out new projects. Using a relational perspective of entrepreneurial discovery and team composition, we analyze the performance determinants of project-entrepreneurs, namely the individuals who are responsible for launching and carrying out those projects. We argue that project-entrepreneurs’ performance is related to their degree of centrality within the social network, and their familiarity with the selected project-team as captured by the distribution of ties among team members. We test our hypotheses within the Hollywood Film Industry over the period 1992–2003. The findings point to the existence of diminishing returns to centrality and performance benefits from assembling teams that combine old-timers and newcomers. The theoretical contributions and implications of the study are discussed. JF - Research Policy SN - 00487333 TI - The relational antecedents of project-entrepreneurship: Network centrality, team composition and project performance KW - antecedents KW - centrality KW - composition KW - network KW - performance KW - project KW - project-entrepreneurship KW - relational KW - team AU - Ferriani, Simone AU - Cattani, Gino AU - Baden-Fuller, Charles PY - 2009/10/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.09.001 ER -