Marc Gruber
Nationalité: Swiss & German (Bavarian)
EPFL CDM MTEI ENTC
ODY 3 04 (Odyssea)
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Expertise
- Entrepreneurship
- Technology Commercialization
- Innovation
- Strategic Management
- Public Policy
- Technology Commercialization
- Innovation
- Strategic Management
- Public Policy
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Main publications
2024
HOW FOUNDER HUMAN CAPITAL AND FOUNDING CONDITIONS SHAPE NEW FIRM PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF NECESSITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP DURING TIMES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
Academy Of Management Journal. 2024-04-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2022.0405.MOBILIZING NEW SOURCES OF DATA: OPPORTUNITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Academy Of Management Journal. 2024-04-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2024.4002.EXPANDING AMJ'S MANUSCRIPT PORTFOLIO: RESEARCH METHODS ARTICLES DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THEORY AND SPAN BOUNDARIES
Academy Of Management Journal. 2024-02-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2024.4001.2023
FROM SCARCITY TO ABUNDANCE: SCHOLARS AND SCHOLARSHIP IN AN AGE OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-12-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4006.POSITIONING RESEARCH ON NOVEL PHENOMENA: THE WINDING ROAD FROM PERIPHERY TO CORE
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-10-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4005.Publishing Multimethod Research In Amj: A Review And Best-Practice Recommendations
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-08-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4004.Opening Up Amj'S Research Methods Repertoire
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-06-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4003.Recognizing And Utilizing Novel Research Opportunities With Artificial Intelligence
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-04-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4002.Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2023-02-10. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1455.An Innovative Journal During Transformational Times: Embarking On The 23Rd Editorial Term
Academy Of Management Journal. 2023-02-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2023.4001.Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Threats in the Era of Grand Societal Challenges
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10018.Examining Open Innovation in Science (OIS): what Open Innovation can and cannot offer the science of science
Innovation-Organization & Management. 2023. DOI : 10.1080/14479338.2021.1999248.2022
Identity-Society (Mis)Alignment And The Instrumentalization Of Firm Creation: Creative Destruction And Creative Reconstruction
Academy Of Management Journal. 2022-04-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2019.0754.The Open Innovation in Science research field: a collaborative conceptualisation approach
Industry And Innovation. 2022. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2020.1792274.2021
Basic Needs as the Boundary Condition for a Reconceptualization of Necessity Entrepreneurship across Contexts
Academy Of Management Review. 2021-10-01. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2020.0491.Continuums and Dichotomies in Necessity Entrepreneurship research
Academy Of Management Review. 2021-10-01. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2021.0231.Reconceptualizing Necessity Entrepreneurship: A Contextualized Framework Of Entrepreneurial Processes Under The Condition Of Basic Needs
Academy Of Management Review. 2021-01-01. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2017.0471.2020
Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda
Journal Of Management. 2020-01-27. DOI : 10.1177/0149206319900537.The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic-Practitioner Divide
Entrepreneurship Theory And Practice. 2020-01-16. DOI : 10.1177/1042258719899415.Entrepreneurship and Identity
The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations; Oxford University Press, 2020.Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7526.2019
Necessity entrepreneurship and industry choice in new firm creation
Strategic Management Journal. 2019-08-22. DOI : 10.1002/smj.3075.Painting with All the Colors: The Value of Social Identity Theory for Understanding Social Entrepreneurship
Academy Of Management Review. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.5465/amr.2017.0504.2018
A Brief Primer On Data Visualization Opportunities In Management Research
Academy Of Management Journal. 2018-10-01. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2018.4005.THE ROLE OF TEAMS IN ACADEMIC SPIN-OFFS
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES. 2018. DOI : 10.5465/amp.2016.0148.New Ways of Seeing: Radical Theorizing
Academy of Management Journal. 2018. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2018.4002.For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making
Lausanne, EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8820.2017
Where to Play: 3 steps for discovering your most valuable market opportunities
FT Publishing International.Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1262.New Ways Of Seeing: Elaboration On A Theme
Academy Of Management Journal. 2017. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2017.4002.The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis
2017. Open Innovation and Business Model Workshop, Cass Business Sch, London, ENGLAND, JUN 07-08, 2016. p. 8-40. DOI : 10.1080/13662716.2016.1240068.R&D Team Diversity and Performance in Hypercompetitive Environment
Strategic Management Journal. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/smj.2577.2016
Measuring the social identity of entrepreneurs: Scale development and international validation
Journal Of Business Venturing. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2016.07.001.2015
The effects of opportunities and founder experience on new firm performance
Strategic Management Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/smj.2269.What is an Attractive Business Opportunity? An Empirical Study of Opportunity Evaluation Decisions by Technologists, Managers, and Entrepreneurs
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.1002/sej.1196.Managing By Design
Academy Of Management Journal. 2015. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2015.4001.2014
Towards an improved Understanding of Knowledge Requirements in Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation of Founder and Opportunity Characteristics
Necessity Entrepreneurs: Micro-Enterprise Education & Economic Development; Cheltenham Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2014. p. 40-54.2013
Necessity Entrepreneurship
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5830.Entrepreneurship & the Unemployed
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5786.Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries: Scientists vs. Engineers
Management Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1572.Escaping the Prior Knowledge Corridor: What shapes the Number and Variety of Market Opportunities identified before Market Entry of Technology Start-ups?
Organization Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/orsc.1110.0721.2012
Founder Identity and Opportunity Identification
Academy of Management Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August, 2012.Private, Communal and Societal Wealth Creation
Academy of Management Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August, 2012.User Entrepreneurship & Founder Identity
OUIC Workshop, Harvard Business School, August, 2012.From Minds to Markets: How Human Capital Endowments Shape Market Opportunity Identification of Technology Start-Ups
Journal of Management. 2012. DOI : 10.1177/0149206310386228.Social Entrepreneurship
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5179.Knowledge Recombination across Technological Boundaries: Scientists versus Engineers
2012Three Essays on Navigating the Stages in New Venture Creation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2012. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5260.2011
The Exploitation of Business Opportunities: Patterns, Biases, and Processes
Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Syracuse, June, 2011.Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2011
Wellesley, Massachusetts: Babson College.Darwinians, Communitarians and Missionaries: The Role of Founder Identity in Entrepreneurship
Academy of Management Journal. 2011. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2009.0211."In pursuit of the real deal": A longitudinal study of VC decision making
Journal of Business Venturing. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.07.002.2010
How Experience Shapes the Subjective Evaluation of Opportunities
Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Lausanne, June, 2010.Inventive Processes and Knowledge Recombination Across Technological Boundaries
Strategic Management Society Conference, Rome, Italy, September, 2010.Book Review on "Getting to Plan B: Breaking through to a Better Business Model” by J. Mullins/ R. Komisar
Academy of Management Perspectives. 2010.Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2010
Babson Park: A.M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, Babson College, Babson Park, MA.How Experience Shapes the Subjective Evaluation of Opportunities
2010. How Experience Shapes the Subjective Evaluation of Opportunities, Lausanne, June 9-12, 2010.Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
Academy of Management Perspectives. 2010.Configurations of Resources & Capabilities and their Performance Implications: An Exploratory Study on Technology Ventures
Strategic Management Journal. 2010. DOI : 10.1002/smj.865.Exploring the Origins of Organizational Paths: Empirical Evidence from Newly Founded Firms
Journal of Management. 2010. DOI : 10.1177/0149206309341083.2009
L’identification des opportunités de marché par les entreprises technologiques
Revue Economique et Sociale. 2009.Individual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firms
Academy of Management Journal. 2009. DOI : 10.5465/amj.2009.47084648.This Deal is Dead: A Longitudinal Study of VC Decision Making
Academy of Management, Chicago, August 7-11.The Jack of All Technologies: Knowledge Recombination across Technological Boundaries
Academy of Management, Chicago, August 7-11.This Deal is Dead: A Longitudinal Study of VC Decision Making
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Wellesley, Babson College, June 3-6.Pre-Entry Knowledge, Learning, and the Survival of New Firms
Organization Science. 2009. DOI : 10.1287/orsc.1080.0387.2008
Individual, Organizational and Environmental Drivers of Job Creation in New Firms
Cornell-McGill Research Conference on Institutions & Entrepreneurship, June 25, 2008.Individual, Organizational and Environmental Drivers of Job Creation in New Firms
American Sociological Association Conference, Washington, DC, USA, August 2, 2008.The Jack of All Technologies: Knowledge Recombination across Technological Boundaries
EPIP Conference, Berne, Switzerland, October 3.Individual, Organizational and Environmental Drivers of Job Creation in New Firms
Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA, August 8-13.Founder Identity, Opportunity Identification & Firm Heterogeneity
Harvard-MIT Workshop in User Innovation, Boston, August 4, 2008.Individual, Organizational and Environmental Drivers of Job Creation in New Firms
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina, June 5-7, 2008.Do European Entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities differently than US Entrepreneurs? A Conjoint Experiment on Two Continents
Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina, June 5-7.Look Before You Leap: Market Opportunity Identification in Emerging Technology Firms
Management Science. 2008. DOI : 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0877.Venture Capitalists' evaluation of start-up Teams: Trade-offs, Knock-out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience
Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. 2008. DOI : 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2008.00236.x.2007
Knowledge Acquisition Activities, Prior Knowledge and Experience & the Survival of New Firms
2007. Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Madrid, Spain, June, 2007.Pre-Entry Knowlegde and the Survival of New Firms
Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, August, 3-8.Pre-Entry Knowlegde and the Survival of New Firms
Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference, Madrid, June 8-10.Die Ideenumsetzung im Rahmen von Markteintrittsstrategien
Entrepreneurial Marketing; Gabler, 2007.Uncovering the value of planning in new venture creation: A process and contingency perspective
Journal of Business Venturing. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2006.07.001.2006
Knowledge-Related Success Factors on the Path from Unemployment in VC-backed Startups
Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson College, June 8.Routes to Paths: An Empirical Exploration of Path creation and Path Development in New Organizations
International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conference, Nice, June 22.Venture capitalists' evaluation of start-up teams: A discrete choice conjoint analysis
Academy of Management (AoM), Atlanta, August 15.Routes to Paths: An Empirical Exploration of Path Creation and Path Development in New Organizations
Academy of Management (AoM), Atlanta, August 14.Managing the process of new venture creation: an integrative perspective
The Edward Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics; Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006.Anreizsysteme als elementare Gestaltungsgrösse im Personalmanagement von jungen Wachstumsunternehmen
Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation (zfo). 2006.Die Kunst, die Zukunft zu erfinden - Theoretische Erkenntnisse und empirische Befunde zum Einsatz des Corporate Foresight in deutschen Grossunternehmen
Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung (ZfbF). 2006. DOI : 10.1007/BF03371688.What you are is what you like—similarity biases in venture capitalists' evaluations of start-up teams
Journal of Business Venturing. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2005.07.001.New ventures based on open innovation – an empirical analysis of start-up firms in embedded Linux
International Journal of Technology Management. 2006. DOI : 10.1504/IJTM.2006.009249.2005
Process Matters - Empirical Evidence on the Value of Marketing Planning in VC-backed Startups
Academy of Management (AoM), Honolulu, August 8.Book Review on "The Economics of Knowledge" by D. Foray
Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 2005. DOI : 10.1007/s00191-005-0269-5.Marketing und Vertrieb
Lexikon Unternehmensgründung; Gabler, 2005.Corporate Venturing
Handbuch Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement; Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2005. p. 137-154.Process Matters: Empirical Evidence on the Value of Marketing Planning in VC-backed Startups
2005. Academy of Management, Hawaii.Marketingplanung von wagniskapitalfinanzierten Unternehmensgründungen - eine theoretische und empirische Analyse
Gabler.2004
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Die Betriebswirtschaft. 2004.Marketing in New Ventures: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Schmalenbach Business Review. 2004.Die Bewertung von Gründerteams durch Venture-Capital-Geber -- Eine empirische Analyse
Die Betriebswirtschaft. 2004.2003
Finanzielle Entwicklung junger Wachstumsunternehmen
Achleitner, A.-K./Bassen, A., (Eds.), Controlling für junge Unternehmen; 2003. p. 27-50.What you are is what you like - similarity biases in venture capitalists evaluations of start-up teams
65. wissenschaftliche Jahrestagung des VHB, Zurich, June 12.Doctorant·es actuel·les
A dirigé les thèses EPFL de
Jana Thiel, Melvin Haas, Shirah Eden Foy, James David Thompson, Jiayun Shen, Enrico Bergamini, Nettra Danette Pan, Peter Michael Vogel
Cours
Publishing in Management, Technology and Innovation
(Coursebook not yet approved by the section)
Entrepreneurship & new venture strategy
A foundational course on the science and practice of launching new ventures. The purpose is to study and experience the first stages of the entrepreneurial process: from the identification of promising opportunities to the development of a viable and innovative business concept.