Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't

Item Type	Journal paper
Abstract	We investigate how potential co-founders' perceptions of a founder's obsessive passion (OP) influence the decision to join a venture team. Using a conjoint experiment with a primary sample of 116 founder-entrepreneurs and validating it with an additional sample of 59 founder entrepreneurs, we found that potential co-founders were more likely to join if they perceived that the founder had OP for developing ventures. Potential co-founders were less likely to join if they perceived OP for founding ventures. Further, we found significant interactions between perceived OPs, as well as interactions between perceived OP and potential co-founders' own OP.
Authors	Fu, Yingzhu; Tietz, Matthias & Delmar, Frederic
Research Team	https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/persons/9249
Journal or Publication Title	Journal of Business Venturing
Language	English
Subjects	business studies
HSG Classification	contribution to scientific community
Refereed	Yes
Date	23 March 2022
Publisher	Elsevier
Place of Publication	Journal of Business Venturing
Volume	37
Number	4
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106219
Official URL	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
Depositing User	Prof. Ph.D Matthias Tietz
Date Deposited	29 Apr 2022 02:55
Last Modified	28 Jun 2022 09:37
URI:	https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/266189

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Fu, Yingzhu; Tietz, Matthias & Delmar, Frederic (2022) Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't. Journal of Business Venturing, 37 (4).

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