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Founding team homogeneity and network positioning: The moderating role of environmental and organizational factors

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  • Lei Xu
  • Juan Ling
  • Haemin Dennis Park

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Organizations with homogeneous founding teams have strong motivation to reach out to diverse network resources by occupying a structural hole position to overcome the lack of heterogeneity within their teams. However, whether those organizations can occupy such a network position is contingent on environmental and organizational factors. We find that a firm’s founding team homogeneity is positively related to the occupancy of a structural hole position. However, this relationship is weakened when this firm operates in a community with strong localism or when the firm's founding team has a higher proportion of immigrant members, whereas the relationship is strengthened by local partnership experience of the firm.

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  • Lei Xu & Juan Ling & Haemin Dennis Park, 2023. "Founding team homogeneity and network positioning: The moderating role of environmental and organizational factors," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(4), pages 1773-1805, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:61:y:2023:i:4:p:1773-1805
    DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2020.1867731
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