Acceleration as process: A strategy process perspective on startup acceleration
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Accelerators: Successful Venture Creation and Growth. ed. / Mike Wright; Israel Drori. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. p. 21-36.
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T1 - Acceleration as process
T2 - A strategy process perspective on startup acceleration
AU - Wenzel, Matthias
AU - Koch, Jochen
PY - 2018/5/25
Y1 - 2018/5/25
N2 - In this chapter, Matthias Wenzel and Jochem Koch develop conceptual arguments on what and how accelerators accelerate. Based on the literature on strategy process, they draw two conceptual distinctions that relate to the object of acceleration (strategic core versus strategic periphery) and the processual patterns of acceleration (forwarding versus leaping). They then use these distinctions to conceptualize and discuss four ways in which accelerators can accelerate the business development of new ventures. They argue that start-up acceleration seems to be largely aimed at forwarding and leaping the strategic periphery instead of the strategic core. This chapter extends the emerging literature on accelerators by making the case for considering and examining start-up acceleration as a process and offering a more specific and nuanced understanding of how it occurs.
AB - In this chapter, Matthias Wenzel and Jochem Koch develop conceptual arguments on what and how accelerators accelerate. Based on the literature on strategy process, they draw two conceptual distinctions that relate to the object of acceleration (strategic core versus strategic periphery) and the processual patterns of acceleration (forwarding versus leaping). They then use these distinctions to conceptualize and discuss four ways in which accelerators can accelerate the business development of new ventures. They argue that start-up acceleration seems to be largely aimed at forwarding and leaping the strategic periphery instead of the strategic core. This chapter extends the emerging literature on accelerators by making the case for considering and examining start-up acceleration as a process and offering a more specific and nuanced understanding of how it occurs.
KW - Management studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066406914&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4337/9781786434098.00006
DO - 10.4337/9781786434098.00006
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781786434081
SP - 21
EP - 36
BT - Accelerators
A2 - Wright, Mike
A2 - Drori, Israel
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
ER -