Conference proceeding
Teach Your Ventures Well: A Control-Based Typology of ICV Parenting Styles
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2013(1), pp.534-539
2013
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2013.36
Abstract
Internal corporate venturing (ICV), the creation of wholly new firms within the organizational boundaries of an existing parent firm, has captured the attention of management scholars for over three decades. While the field has produced considerable knowledge about this phenomenon, an integrated theoretical understanding of how parent firms approach their control of internal ventures has eluded scholarship to this point. With this paper, we identify two basic mechanisms parent firms use to control their ventures: a steering mechanism and a braking mechanism. These mechanisms form the dimensions of a typology of ICV parenting styles. Our typology, drawn from existing work in child psychology, contains four distinct ICV parenting styles: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Indulgent, and Indifferent. We generate six testable propositions to identify the distinct configurations of environmental characteristics under which each style proves optimal. The typology and the associated theoretical propositions have significant implications for theoretical development in the study of ICV and in the field of management, more broadly.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Teach Your Ventures Well: A Control-Based Typology of ICV Parenting Styles
- Creators
- Ryan Adam Krause - Texas Christian UniversityOwen Nelson Parker - Indiana University BloomingtonJeffrey G. Covin - Indiana University
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2013(1), pp.534-539
- DOI
- 10.5465/ambpp.2013.36
- ISSN
- 0065-0668
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984936820502771
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