Table of contents - Special Issue: Fantastic Ventures and Where to Find Them: Gazelles, Unicorns, and other Evolutionary Entrepreneurial Species
Guest Editors: Matteo Cristofaro, Johan Kask, Jeffrey Muldoon
What can outliers teach us about entrepreneurial success?
Martin Ruef, Colin Birkhead, Howard AldrichStudies of unicorns and gazelles can offer detailed information about the process of enterprise development but are unrepresentative as examples of entrepreneurial success. In…
Strategies of unicorn startups: how these positive deviants compare to early-stage and Fortune 500 ventures
Shelby Meek, Birton J. CowdenThe purpose of this paper is to begin to explore the strategic priorities of unicorn ventures as pursuers of market disruption. This study approaches this task by drawing on the…
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the zebras are teal tonight: investigating the organizational forms of Generation Z-driven Italian start-ups
Davide de Gennaro, Simona Mormile, Gabriella Piscopo, Paola AdinolfiIn light of the new way of interpreting work spearheaded by Generation Z, the objectives of this study are to investigate (1) whether young entrepreneurs identify their start-ups…
Beyond myth: a systematic literature review on the emergence of unicorn firms
Pier Luigi Giardino, Silvia Delladio, Silvia Baiocco, Andrea CaputoThis study aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive examination of the underlying factors enabling the emergence of unicorn firms. By addressing this research gap and…
From rapid decline to high growth: where in the distribution did COVID hit hardest?
Alex Coad, Peter Bauer, Clemens Domnick, Peter Harasztosi, Rozália Pál, Mercedes TeruelThe authors explore how did the COVID shock hit European firms at the upper quantiles (high-growth superstars) and the lower quantiles (rapidly declining firms).
A life cycle view on unicorn start-ups: drivers of long-term high-growth
Diala Kabbara, Birgit HagenThe purpose of this study is to explore the exogenous and endogenous drivers of the high-growth of Unicorn start-ups along their life cycle, with a particular focus on Unicorns in…
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