Works
- Revisiting Burns and Stalker: formal structure and new venture performance in emerging economic sectors, Academy of Management Journal 49(1), 121 to 132, 2006
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Formal structure in new ventures
Ideas
Formal structure helps new ventures. In the emergent Internet sector, 1996 to 2001, ventures whose founding teams had more formalization, specialization, and administrative intensity outperformed more organic ones, against the Burns and Stalker expectation for dynamic sectors. Caveat: One sector in one boom period.