Scholarly Articles

Scott has written the following articles.  Below is a sorted list of all articles by section:


Business Format Franchising

    1. Mitsuhashi, H., Shane, S., and Sine, S “Organizational Governance Form in Franchising: Efficient Contracting or Organizational Momentum” Strategic Management Journal, 29:1127-1135, 2008.
    2. Shane, S., Shankar, V., and Aravindakshan, A. “Drivers of new franchise system growth: Conceptual and empirical analyses,” Management Science, 52(5): 773-787, 2006.
    3. Azoulay, P., and Shane, S. “Entrepreneurs, contracts and the failure of young firms,” Management Science, 47(3): 337-358, 2001.
    4. 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).
    5. Shane, S., and Foo, M. “New firm survival: An institutional explanation for franchisor mortality,” Management Science, 25(2): 142-159, 1999.
    6. Shane, S. “Making new franchise systems work,” Strategic Management Journal, 19: 697-707, 1998.  
    7. Shane, S. “Explaining the distribution of franchised and company-owned outlets in franchise systems,” Journal of Management, 24(6): 717-739, 1998.
    8. Shane, S. “Why franchise companies expand overseas,” Journal of Business Venturing 11(2), pp. 73-88, 1996.
    9. 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

    1. Fini, R., Lacetera, N., and Shane, S. "Who are the Academic Entrepreneurs in the United States and What do they do?"
    2. Dechenaux, E., Goldfarb, B., Shane, S., and Thursby, M. “Appropriability and the Timing of Innovation” Management Science, 54(5): 893-906, 2008.
    3. Nerkar, A., and Shane, S. “Determinants of successful innovations: An empirical examination of academically-sourced inventions,” Strategic Management Journal, 28: 1155-1166, 2007.
    4. Shane, S., and Somaya, D. “The effect of patent litigation on university licensing efforts,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 63: 739-755, 2007.
    5. 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).
    6. Katila, R., and Shane, S. “When does lack of resources make new firms innovative?” Academy of Management Journal, 48(5): 814-829, 2005
    7. Shane, S. “Encouraging university entrepreneurship? The effect of the Bayh-Dole Act on university patenting,” Journal of Business Venturing, 19(1), 127-151, 2004.
    8. 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.
    9. Nerkar, A., and Shane, S. “When do startups that exploit patented academic knowledge survive?” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 21(9), 1391-1410, 2003.
    10. Shane, S., and Khurana, R. “Career experience and firm founding” Industrial and Corporate Change, 12(3): 519-543, 2003.
    11. 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. 
    12. 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)
    13. Shane, S. “University technology transfer to entrepreneurial companies,” Journal of Business Venturing, 17 (6), 537-552, 2002.
    14. Shane, S. “Selling university technology: Patterns from MIT” Management Science, 48(1), 122-137, 2002.
    15. 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)
    16. Shane, S. “Technology regimes and firm formation,” Management Science, 47(9): 1173-1190, 2001.
    17. Shane, S. “Technology opportunity and firm formation,” Management Science, 47(2):  205-220, 2001.

Firm Organizing Process

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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

  1. Shane, S., and Venkataraman, S. “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research,” Academy of Management Review, 25(1): 217-226, 2000.
  2. Shane, S. “Explaining variation in rates of entrepreneurship in the United States: 1899-1988.” Journal of Management, 22(5), pp. 747-782, 1996.
  3. Shane, S. “Who is publishing the entrepreneurship research?” Journal of Management, 23(1), pp. 85-97, 1997.
  4. 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

  1. Eckhardt, J., Shane, S., and Delmar, F. “Multi-stage selection and the financing of new ventures,” Management Science, 52(2): 220-232, 2006.
  2. 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

  1. Eckhardt, J., Shane, S. "Industry Differences in Scientific and Non-Scientific Human Captial and the Creation of High Growth Companies"
  2. Bauer, P., Schweitzer, M., and Shane, S. “State Growth Empirics: The Role of Innovation and Education”
  3. Shane, S., and Ulrich, K. “Technological innovation, product development, and entrepreneurship in Management Science,” Management Science, 50(2): 133-144, 2004.
  4. Case, R., and Shane, S. “Risk taking in high risk projects: Managing for failure”, Decision Science, 29(4): 765-783, 1998.
  5. 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

  1. Shane, S., Locke, E., and Collins, C. “Entrepreneurial motivation” Human Resource Management Review, 13(2): 257-279, 2003.
  2. 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

  1. Shane, S. "Entrepreneurship and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Behavioral Genetics Perspective"
  2. Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. "The Behavioral Genetics of Opportunity Recognition and Opportunity Exploitation"
  3. Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. "Openness to Experience and Opportunity Recognition: Evidence of a Common Genetic Etiology"
  4. Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Hunkin, J., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. “Is the tendency to engage in entrepreneurship genetic?” Management Science, 54(1):
    167-179, 2008.
  5. Nicolaou, N., and Shane, S. “Born entrepreneurs? The genetic foundations of entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing , Forthcoming
  6. Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., and Spector, T. “The influence of sensation seeking in the heritability of entrepreneurship,” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2:7-21, 2008

Opportunity Recognition

  1. 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).
  2. Eckhardt, J., and Shane, S. “The importance of opportunities to entrepreneurship,” Journal of Management, 29(3): 333-349, 2003.
  3. 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.

 




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