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Mateja Andric
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Dr.
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Andric
First name
Mateja
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mateja.andric@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 71 09
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PublicationParental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood( 2024)We examine how parental divorce in early life affects performance in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Drawing on life course theory and empirical analyses of US self-employment and childhood data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that entrepreneurs’ experience of parental divorce in childhood benefits their entrepreneurial performance in adulthood through a gain in self-efficacy while simultaneously suppressing entrepreneurial performance through a shortfall in human capital. We also show that whether the performance advantages or disadvantages from parental divorce dominate depends on parental human capital. While parental divorce is associated with underperformance for entrepreneurs whose parents have high levels of human capital, it is positively related to entrepreneurial performance for those with low parental human capital. Our study contributes new theory and evidence on the intertemporal relationship between past family contexts and present entrepreneurial performance.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Business VenturingVolume: 39Issue: 3
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PublicationA Dynamic Theory of Firms’ Embeddedness in Entrepreneurs’ Lives( 2023)Entrepreneurs experience a variety of events in their lives, such as marriage, the birth of a child, divorce, but also health shocks and deaths of relatives. Such events do not only change the lives of entrepreneurs, but likely also affect their firms. Integrating theories from literatures on the work-life interface, human life-span development, and on power and dependence, a dynamic multi-level theoretical framework is introduced that outlines the processes linking entrepreneurs’ life events and changes in firm goals and firm performance. The proposed theory also explicates the boundary conditions that influence the magnitude of firm-level changes in response to life events and explains why and how temporal patterns of change in firm-level outcomes differ across life events. The introduced theory advances a perspective of firms’ temporal embeddedness in entrepreneurs’ lives, suggesting that changes in firm goals and performance over time can mirror changes in entrepreneurs’ lives emanating from life events that entrepreneurs experience.Type: conference paperJournal: Academy of Management ProceedingsVolume: 2023Issue: 1
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PublicationThe Impact Of Changing Age And Gender Norms On Entrepreneurship: A Cohort StudySocial norms regarding age- and gender-appropriate behaviors exert a strong influence on how entrepreneurs organize their lives. We examine the implications of socio-historical changes in age and gender norms for entrepreneurship by elucidating how the typical life stage at the time of entrepreneurial entry has shifted across socio-historical cohorts of entrepreneurs, as well as how the performance consequences of being married or having children at the time of entrepreneurial entry have changed over time. Based on cohort analyses of US self-employment data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that individuals today are less likely to be married and to have children when they enter entrepreneurship compared to entrepreneurs in the past. In addition, gender differences in the effect of being married and having children on entrepreneurial performance have decreased over time.Type: conference paperJournal: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, BCERC Proceedings
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PublicationType: conference paperJournal: Proceedings of the Eighty-second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
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PublicationCEO divorce and firm performance – The role of CEO’s family situation( 2020)
;Hellerstedt, KarinWe investigate the impact of CEO divorce on firm performance and examine how this relationship depends on the CEO’s life stage and the involvement of the CEO’s family in the firm. Using data from Statistics Sweden covering the period from 2004 to 2014, we tested our hypotheses using a difference-in-difference design on a matched sample of 2,336 firms, most of which are small firms. With our results we contribute to upper echelons theory by showing that CEO divorce negatively affects firm performance, and that this relationship strongly depends on the length of the marriage, the presence of children, as well as whether the CEO’s spouse and children work in the firm. We show that under certain conditions CEO divorce can even have a positive impact on firm performance, in particular in the presence of CEO’s children in the firm.Type: conference paperJournal: Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management -
PublicationThe influence of entrepreneurial teams’ structural power inequality on firm performance( 2020)Hellerstedt, KarinIn this research article, we investigate how structural power inequality within entrepreneurial teams influences firm performance. We argue that very high and very low levels of structural power inequality undermine cooperation and communication within the team and therefore inhibit the efficient deployment of entrepreneurial team members’ resources. We find evidence for an inverted U-shaped relationship between structural power inequality and firm performance. Furthermore, we investigate the influence of social ties and find that the inverted U-relationship becomes stronger in the presence of co-worker ties and weaker in the presence of family ties. These results provide important contributions for research on power in organizations and entrepreneurship.Type: conference paperJournal: Proceedings of the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
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PublicationThe impact of entrepreneurs’ life events on entrepreneurial ventures’ performanceEvents in the private lives of entrepreneurs often involve the transition into a new life stage, the birth of a child being a particularly important life event. Building on work-family interface and upper echelons literatures, we investigate the impact of the birth of an entrepreneur’s child on firm performance in the context of privately held firms and test our hypotheses using Swedish data on owner-managed firms in the period between 2004 and 2014. Our results indicate a negative short-term impact of birth on firm performance and suggest that this impact is particularly strong for female entrepreneurs, for the birth of the first kid and for knowledge-intense firms.Type: conference paper
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PublicationThe Embeddedness of Firms in the Lives of Entrepreneurs and CEOs( 2024)This doctoral thesis investigates how firms are influenced by past and present life events in the lives of entrepreneurs and CEOs. The three papers of this dissertation thereby focus on different facets of firms’ embeddedness in the lives of entrepreneurs and CEOs by investigating (1) the influence of parental divorce in childhood on entrepreneurs’ performance in adulthood; (2) the impact of CEO divorce on firm performance; and (3) the consequences of entrepreneurs’ life events for their firms. The first paper investigates how entrepreneurs’ experience of parental divorce in early life affects their performance in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Drawing on life course theory, the paper outlines the processes linking parental divorce to entrepreneurial performance and introduces the parental family’s socioeconomic status as boundary condition. The hypotheses were tested using US data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and performing weighted moderated mediation analyses and weighted least squares analyses with entropy balancing weights. The second paper examines how CEO divorce affects firm performance, thereby investigating boundary conditions related to the CEO’s life stage and the involvement of the CEO’s family in the firm. Hypotheses are developed outlining the moderating role of marriage duration, being parent of minor children, as well as the spouse’s and children’s involvement in the firm. Empirical analyses are performed applying a difference-in-differences design on a matched sample of privately held firms using data from Statistics Sweden covering the period from 2004 to 2014. The third paper conceptually investigates the firm-level consequences of entrepreneurs’ life events through theoretical deduction and integration of theories from literatures on the work-life interface, human life span development, and on power-dependence relations. A dynamic multi-level theoretical framework is introduced that outlines the processes through which entrepreneurs’ life events incur changes in firm goals and firm performance, thereby also explaining boundary conditions and temporal patterns. Overall, this dissertation advances a perspective of firms’ temporal embeddedness in entrepreneurs’ and CEOs’ past and present lives.Type: doctoral thesis