Is entrepreneurship contagious? In this podcast I review some evidence that it is!
This is an audio readthrough of the (initial version of) the article "Entrepreneurship is contagious", published on New Things Under the Sun.
Articles mentioned:
Marx, Matt, and David H. Hsu. 2021. Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Commercialization of Academic Science: Evidence from “Twin” Discoveries. Management Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.3966
Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sørensen. 2010. Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship. Management Science 56(7): 1116-1126. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1100.1179
Giannetti, Mariassunta, and Andrei Simonov. 2009. Social Interactions and Entrepreneurial Activity. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18(3): 665-709. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-9134.2009.00226.x
Lindquist, Matthew J., Joeri Sol, and Mirjam Van Praag. 2015. Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? Journal of Labor Economics 33(2): 665-709. https://doi.org/10.1086/678493
Eesley, Charles, and Yanbo Wang. 2017. Social influence in career choice: evidence from a randomized field experiment on entrepreneurial mentorship. Research Policy 46(3): 636-650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2017.01.010
Azoulay, Pierre, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart. 2017. Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs. American Journal of Sociology 122(4): 1223-1271. https://doi.org/10.1086/689890
Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. 2013. With a Little Help from my (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship. The Review of Financial Studies 26(10): 2411-2452. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hht024