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- Title
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes.
- Authors
Wang, Aric Xu; Zhou, Kevin Zheng
- Abstract
Although financial resources are critical to new ventures, is having more of them always a good thing? Intrigued by industry observations and building on behavioral research into the limitations of munificent resources, we argue that financial munificence can have a negative moderating effect on the impact of R&D investment on venture survival. We further propose that three CEO attributes (i.e., work experience, education, and gender) can mitigate this negative moderating effect. Analyses of a six-year longitudinal dataset of 791 new technology ventures provide strong support for our hypotheses. We contribute to the behavioral research on how resource munificence matters for new ventures by examining the indirect downside of financial munificence and demonstrating how certain CEO attributes can mitigate this effect. Plain English Summary: While capital is essential for new ventures to innovate and survive, is having more of it always good? Our research shows "No" because more money may "spoil the child" by reducing the benefits that new ventures enjoy from R&D investment. We analyzed 791 new technology ventures across six years and found evidence of a side effect of munificent financial resources, such that when ventures have high levels of financial munificence, they garner fewer survival benefits from increasing R&D. This side effect is weakened when ventures have CEOs who are more experienced, highly educated, or female. These findings extend previous research on the limitations of financial munificence by showing its negative moderating effect on the R&D–survival relationship. For entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the industry, we advise caution regarding the role of abundant financial resources in new ventures.
- Subjects
VENTURE capital; NEW business enterprises; ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; BUSINESSPEOPLE; BEHAVIORAL research
- Publication
Small Business Economics, 2022, Vol 59, Issue 4, p1641
- ISSN
0921-898X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11187-021-00592-4