I examine how the organizational antecedents of spinouts shape the new firms' industry and technological trajectory choices compared to those of the parent firms. Building on prior research on employee entrepreneurship and integrating insights from the literature on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship, I hypothesize that spinouts launched to exploit a new business opportunity shunned by the parent firm (i.e., opportunity spinouts) are more likely to enter a different but related industry and technological field to those of the parent firm. I hypothesize also that spinouts triggered by adverse developments in the parent firm (i.e., necessity spinouts) are more likely to target the same industry and technological field as the parent. Analysis of data from the European biotech industry supports these predictions.

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是偶然产生的还是出于必然？员工分拆中的组织背景以及行业和技术的选择


我研究了与母公司相比，分拆公司的组织背景如何影响新公司的行业和技术轨迹选择。基于之前对员工创业的研究，并整合有关机会和必要创业的文献中的见解，我假设，为利用母公司回避的新商业机会而设立的分拆公司（即机会分拆公司）更有可能进入一个不同但相关的领域。产业和技术领域与母公司相同。我还假设，由母公司不利发展引发的分拆（即必要性分拆）更有可能针对与母公司相同的行业和技术领域。对欧洲生物技术行业数据的分析支持了这些预测。