Scholarly Articles
Scott has written the following articles. Below is a sorted list of all articles by section:
Business Format Franchising
- Mitsuhashi, H., Shane, S., and Sine, S “Markets and hierarchies in franchising: Is efficient contracting really the explanation?”Strategic Management Journal Forthcoming,
- Shane, S., Shankar, V., and Aravindakshan, A. “Drivers of new franchise system growth: Conceptual and empirical analyses,” Management Scienc, 52(5): 773-787, 2006.
- Azoulay, P., and Shane, S. “Entrepreneurs, contracts and the failure of young firms,” Management Science, 47(3): 337-358, 2001.
- Shane, S., “Organizational incentives and organizational mortality,” Organization Science, 12(2): 136-160, 2001. (Reprinted in P. Davidsson (ed.) New Firm Start-ups, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar).
- Shane, S., and Foo, M. “New firm survival: An institutional explanation for franchisor mortality,” Management Science, 25(2): 142-159, 1999.
- Shane, S. “Making new franchise systems work,” Strategic Management Journal, 19: 697-707, 1998.
- Shane, S. “Explaining the distribution of franchised and company-owned outlets in franchise systems,” Journal of Management, 24(6): 717-739, 1998.
- Shane, S. “Why franchise companies expand overseas,” Journal of Business Venturing 11(2), pp. 73-88, 1996.
- Shane, S. “Hybrid organizational arrangements and their implications for firm growth and survival: A study of new franchisors,” Academy of Management Journal, 39(1), pp. 216-234, 1996. (Reprinted in P. Westhead and M. Wright (Eds.) 1999. Advances in Entrepreneurship, London: Edward Elgar Publishing.)
University Technology Transfer and Spin-off Companies
- Dechenaux, E., Goldfarb, B., Shane, S., and Thursby, M. “Appropriability and the timing of innovation: Evidence from MIT inventions” Management Science, forthcoming.
- Nerkar, A., and Shane, S. “Determinants of successful innovations: An empirical examination of academically-sourced inventions,” Strategic Management Journal, forthcoming.
- Shane, S., and Somaya, D. “The effect of patent litigation on university licensing efforts,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
- Shane, S. “Government policies to encourage economic development through entrepreneurship: The case of technology transfer” in S. Shane (ed.) Economic Development Through Entrepreneurship: Government, University and Business Linkages Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005, 33-49. (Reprinted in Office of Advocacy, US Small Business Administration, The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President, Washington: US Government Printing Office, 2004).
- Katila, R., and Shane, S. “When does lack of resources make new firms innovative?” Academy of Management Journal, 48(5): 814-829, 2005
- Shane, S. “Encouraging university entrepreneurship? The effect of the Bayh-Dole Act on university patenting,” Journal of Business Venturing, 19(1), 127-151, 2004.
- Shane, S. 2003 “When are universities the locus of invention?” in New Movements of Entrepreneurship, (C. Steyaert, and D. Hjorth, eds.) Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 145-159.
- Nerkar, A., and Shane, S. “When do startups that exploit patented academic knowledge survive?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21(9), 1391-1410, 2003.
- Shane, S., and Khurana, R. “Career experience and firm founding” Industrial and Corporate Change, 12(3): 519-543, 2003.
- Sine, S., Shane, S., and DiGregorio, D. “The halo effect and technology licensing: The influence of institutional prestige on the licensing of university inventions” Management Science, 49 (4), 478-496, 2003.
- DiGregorio, D., and Shane, S. “Why do some universities generate more start-ups than others?” Research Policy, 32(2), 209-227, 2003. (Reprinted in D. Siegel (ed.) Technological Entrepreneurship: Institutions and Agents Involved in University Technology Transfer, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar)
- Shane, S. “University technology transfer to entrepreneurial companies,” Journal of Business Venturing, 17 (6), 537-552, 2002.
- Shane, S. “Selling university technology: Patterns from MIT” Management Science, 48(1), 122-137, 2002.
- Shane, S., and Stuart, T. “Organizational endowments and the performance of university start-ups” Management Science, 48(1), 154-170, 2002, (Reprinted in D. Siegel (ed.) Technological Entrepreneurship: Institutions and Agents Involved in University Technology Transfer, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar)
- Shane, S. “Technology regimes and firm formation,” Management Science, 47(9): 1173-1190, 2001.
- Shane, S. “Technology opportunity and firm formation,” Management Science, 47(2): 205-220, 2001.
Firm Organizing Process
- Delmar, F., and Shane, S. “Does experience matter? The effect of founding team experience on the sales of newly founded firms,” Strategic Organization, 4(3): 215-247, 2006.
- Shane, S., and Delmar, F. “Planning for the market: Business planning before marketing and the survival of new ventures” Journal of Business Venturing, 19(5): 767-785, 2004.
- Delmar, F., and Shane, S. “Legitimating First: Organizing activities and the survival of new ventures” Journal of Business Venturing, 19(3), 385-410, 2004. (Reprinted in P. Davidsson (ed.) New Firm Start-ups, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar).
- Delmar, F., and Shane, S. “Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures?” Strategic Management Journal, 24(12): 1165-1185, 2003. (A research brief of this article, written by Brett Matherne appeared in the November 2004 issue of the Academy of Management Executive)
Entrepreneurship in General
- Shane, S., and Venkataraman, S. “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research,” Academy of Management Review, 25(1): 217-226, 2000.
- Shane, S. “Explaining variation in rates of entrepreneurship in the United States: 1899-1988.” Journal of Management, 22(5), pp. 747-782, 1996.
- Shane, S. “Who is publishing the entrepreneurship research?” Journal of Management, 23(1), pp. 85-97, 1997.
- Gartner, W., and Shane, S. “Measuring rates of entrepreneurship over time” Journal of Business Venturing, 10(4), pp. 283-301, 1995. (Reprinted in P. Westhead and M. Wright (Eds.) 1999. Advances in Entrepreneurship, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.)
New Venture Finance
- Eckhardt, J., Shane, S., and Delmar, F. “Multi-stage selection and the financing of new ventures,” Management Science, 52(2): 220-232, 2006.
- Shane, S., and Cable, D., “Network ties, reputation, and the financing of new ventures” Management Science, 48 (3), 364-381, 2002.Cable, D., and Shane, S “A prisoner’s dilemma approach to entrepreneur-venture capitalist relations”, Academy of Management Review 22(1), pp. 142-176, 1997. (Reprinted in P. Westhead and M. Wright (Eds.) 1999. Advances in Entrepreneurship, London: Edward Elgar Publishing and in L. Busenitz, Harry Sapienza, and Mike Wright (Eds.) 2003. Venture Capital, London: Edward Elgar Publishing).
Innovation
- Bauer, P., Schweitzer, M., and Shane, S. “State Growth Empirics: The Role of Innovation and Education” (Under review at Quarterly Journal of Economics)
- Shane, S., and Ulrich, K. “Technological innovation, product development, and entrepreneurship in Management Science,” Management Science, 50(2): 133-144, 2004.
- Case, R., and Shane, S. “Risk taking in high risk projects: Managing for failure”, Decision Science, 29(4): 765-783, 1998.
- Venkataraman, S., Shane, S., McGrath, R., and MacMillan, I., “Central tensions in the management of corporate venturing,” in Entrepreneurship Research in a Global Perspective, (I. MacMillan and S. Birley, Eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1993, pp. 177-200.
Psychology of Entrepreneurs and Managers
- Shane, S., Locke, E., and Collins, C. “Entrepreneurial motivation” Human Resource Management Review, 13(2): 257-279, 2003.
- House, R., Shane, S, and Herold, D. “Rumors of the death of dispositional research have been greatly exaggerated,” Academy of Management Review, 21(1), pp. 203-224, 1996.
Genetics and Entrepreneurship
- Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Hunkin, J., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. “Is the tendency to engage in self-employment genetic?” Management Science, Forthcoming
- Nicolaou, N., and Shane, S. “Born entrepreneurs? The genetic foundations of entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing , Forthcoming
- Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. “The influence of sensation seeking in the heritability of entrepreneurship,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Forthcoming
Opportunity Recognition
- Shane, S. “Prior knowledge, and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities,” Organization Science, 11(4):448-469, 2000. (Reprinted in P. Davidsson (ed.) New Firm Start-ups, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar).
- Eckhardt, J., and Shane, S. “The importance of opportunities to entrepreneurship,” Journal of Management, 29(3): 333-349, 2003.
- Eckhardt, J., and Shane, S. 2003. “The individual-opportunity nexus: A new perspective on entrepreneurship” in Handbook of Entrepreneurship (Z. Acs and D. Audretsch, eds.), Boston, MA: Kluwer, 161-194.