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1. Can technology startups hire talented early employees? : ability, preferences, and employee first job choice
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry;2024
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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2. The Impact of Name, Image, and Likeness Contracts on Student-Athlete College Choice
abstractWe estimate how “Name, Image, and Likeness” (NIL) contracts affect NCAA football recruiting outcomes. We model recruiting as a multistage process, where schools make scholarship offers to athletes and then athletes choose a school based on their preferences over the offers received. We find that NIL values for athletes at a school are a significant predictor of recruits’ decisions to accept an offer. We test various counterfactual scenarios and conclude that NILs help Elite programs to attract talent with impacts similar to other program characteristics. It is unlikely that NILs alone could help other schools compete with the top programs
Owens, Mark F.; Rennhoff, Adam D.; Roach, Michael;2023
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3. Are Foreign Stem PhDs More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences and Employment Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science & Engineering PhD Students
abstractPrior research has shown that immigrants make important contributions to US innovation and are more likely than natives to become entrepreneurs. However, there is little evidence on how foreign and native high-skilled workers differ prior to entering the workforce. Moreover, little attention has been paid to distinguishing between founders and employees who join startups. We draw on a longitudinal survey of over 5,600 foreign and native STEM PhD students at U.S. research universities to examine entrepreneurial characteristics and career preferences prior to graduation, as well as founding and employment outcomes after graduation. First, we find that foreign PhD students differ from native PhD students with respect to individual characteristics typically associated with entrepreneurship such as risk tolerance, a preference for autonomy, and interest in commercialization. Second, foreign PhD students are more likely to express intentions to become a founder or a startup employee prior to graduation. Third, despite their entrepreneurial career interests, foreign PhDs are less likely to become founders or startup employees in their first industry job after graduation. These patterns call for future research on factors that enable or constrain foreign STEM workers from realizing their entrepreneurial career aspirations
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry; Skrentny, John;2019
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Citations: 4 (based on OpenCitations)
4. Are foreign STEM PhDs more entrepreneurial? : entrepreneurial characteristics, preferences and employment outcomes of native and foreign science & engineering PhD students
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry; Skrentny, John David;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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5. Can Early-Stage Startups Hire Talented Scientists and Engineers? Ability, Preferences, and Employee Job Choice
abstractEarly-stage technology startups rely critically on talented scientists and engineers to commercialize new technologies. And yet, they compete with large technology firms to hire the best workers. Theories of ability sorting predict that high ability workers will choose jobs in established firms that offer greater complementary assets and higher pay, leaving low ability workers to take lower-paying and riskier jobs in startups. We propose an alternative view in which heterogeneity in both worker ability and preferences enable startups to hire talented workers who have a taste for a startup environment, even at lower pay. Using a longitudinal survey that follows 2,394 science and engineering PhDs from graduate school into industrial employment, we overcome common empirical challenges by observing ability and stated preferences prior to first-time employment. We find that both ability and career preferences strongly predict startup employment, with high ability workers who prefer startup employment being the most likely to work in a startup. We show that this is due in part to the dual selection effects of worker preferences resulting in a large pool of startup job applicants, and startups “cherry picking” the most talented workers to make job offers to. Additional analyses confirm that startup employees earn approximately 17% lower pay. This gap is greatest for high ability workers and persists over workers’ early careers, suggesting that they accept a negative compensating differential in exchange for the non-pecuniary benefits of startup employment. This is further supported by data on job attributes and stated reasons for job choice
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry;2022
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Citations: 2 (based on OpenCitations)
6. "Mit dem Geist die Realität verändern"
Roach, Michael; Höhmann, Ingmar;2017
Type: Interview; Befragung
7. Are foreign STEM PhDs more entrepreneurial? : entrepreneurial characteristics, preferences, and employment outcomes of native and foreign science and engineering PhD students
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry; Skrentny, John David;2020
Type: Aufsatz im Buch; Book section;
8. Founder or Joiner? The Role of Preferences and Context in Shaping Different Entrepreneurial Interests
abstractEntrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – start-up employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but who do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both preference and contextual theories of entrepreneurship, we examine how individuals’ interest in being a founder, a joiner, or neither forms prior to the first career transition. We find that although individuals with founder and joiner interests share similar preferences for entrepreneurial job attributes such as autonomy and risk, their preferences for these attributes also differ in significantly meaningful ways. Contextual factors such as norms, role models, and opportunities exhibit very different relationships with founder and joiner interests. Most interestingly, our results suggest that preferences and context interrelate in unique ways to shape different entrepreneurial interests. In particular, an interest in being a founder is most strongly associated with individuals’ preferences for entrepreneurial job attributes, while contextual factors do little to shape a founder interest in individuals who lack these preferences. An interest in being a joiner, on the other hand, is associated with both preferences and context, and this relationship is most pronounced for individuals with preferences that predispose them toward entrepreneurship. This study highlights joiners as a distinct type of entrepreneurial actor and demonstrates the importance of considering the interplay between preferences and context in the study of entrepreneurship
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry;2019
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9. Are Foreign Stem Phds More Entrepreneurial? Entrepreneurial Characteristics, Preferences and Employment Outcomes of Native and Foreign Science & Engineering Phd Students
abstractPrior research has shown that immigrants make important contributions to US innovation and are more likely than natives to become entrepreneurs. However, there is little evidence on how foreign and native high-skilled workers differ prior to entering the workforce. Moreover, little attention has been paid to distinguishing between founders and employees who join startups. We draw on a longitudinal survey of over 5,600 foreign and native STEM PhD students at U.S. research universities to examine entrepreneurial characteristics and career preferences prior to graduation, as well as founding and employment outcomes after graduation. First, we find that foreign PhD students differ from native PhD students with respect to individual characteristics typically associated with entrepreneurship such as risk tolerance, a preference for autonomy, and interest in commercialization. Second, foreign PhD students are more likely to express intentions to become a founder or a startup employee prior to graduation. Third, despite their entrepreneurial career interests, foreign PhDs are less likely to become founders or startup employees in their first industry job after graduation. These patterns call for future research on factors that enable or constrain foreign STEM workers from realizing their entrepreneurial career aspirations.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at "http://www.nber.org/papers/w26225"
Roach, Michael; Sauermann, Henry; Skrentny, John;2019
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10. Lens or Prism? Patent Citations as a Measure of Knowledge Flows from Public Research
abstractThis paper assesses the validity and accuracy of firms' backward patent citations as a measure of knowledge flows from public research by employing a newly constructed dataset that matches patents to survey data at the level of the R&D lab. Using survey-based measures of the dimensions of knowledge flows, we identify sources of systematic measurement error associated with backward citations to both patent and nonpatent references. We find that patent citations reflect the codified knowledge flows from public research, but they appear to miss knowledge flows that are more private and contract-based in nature, as well as those used in firm basic research. We also find that firms' patenting and citing strategies affect patent citations, making citations less indicative of knowledge flows. In addition, an illustrative analysis examining the magnitude and direction of measurement error bias suggests that measuring knowledge flows with patent citations can lead to substantial underestimation of the effect of public research on firms' innovative performance. Throughout our analyses we find that nonpatent references (e.g., journals, conferences, etc.), not the more commonly used patent references, are a better measure of knowledge originating from public research
Roach, Michael; Cohen, Wesley M.;2012
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Citations: 3 (based on OpenCitations)