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The article presents abstracts on technology and innovation management topics which include the way modularity works in real world organizations, the effect of external learning on radical innovation in the high-technology industry, and the organizational antecedents and consequences of absorbing technological knowledge.

The article presents abstracts on organization and management theory topics which include differences between Convention Theory and New Organizational Institutionalism, the relationship between status and uncertainty, and the people variations in networks that can affect organizational performance.

The article presents abstracts on entrepreneurship topics which include the influence of tie-order on network emergence, a complexity science-based model for innovation and the formation of entrepreneurial enterprises, and fuzzy-set hierarchical classification of family businesses.

The article presents abstracts on business policy and strategy topics which include the complexities of top management team (TMT) composition, insights about dynamic capabilities observed from simulated evolving competition, and venture capital syndication in China.

This section presents conference paper abstracts on entrepreneurship, including a study of how the individual trait of Entrepreneurial Orientation positively predicts how entrepreneurs evaluate business opportunities, an examination of the development of effective boards in venture capital-backed initial public offerings, and a discussion of how a cognitive perspective can provide important insights into the nature of opportunity recognition.

This study examines the mediating role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and opportunity recognition. Using Partial Least Squares we found among 95 academic spin-offs at three universities in the Netherlands that the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and opportunity recognition was fully mediated by potential and realized absorptive capacity. This shows that entrepreneurs of academic spin-offs can benefit significantly from developing an absorptive capacity capability to take advantage of their entrepreneurial orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study advances the understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance by investigating the non-linearity of the relationship and the role of absorptive capacity and financial slack resources as moderators. Based on unique data set of 86 Finnish food manufacturing companies the findings suggest that the entrepreneurial orientation has non-linear J-shaped relationship with firm sales growth. The results also indicate that entrepreneurial orientation may not be required to attain high sales growth when a company has high slack resources and high absorptive capacity. In addition, the study suggests that in companies' possessing high slack resources, increase in entrepreneurial orientation from low to moderate level accelerates firm sales growth, but in order to capitalize the sales growth potential of highly entrepreneurial endeavors, also high absorptive capacity is required. These findings contribute directly to the discussion on the nature of the entrepreneurial orientation- performance relationship and extent the existing literature by identifying two simultaneously existing moderating variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]