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Co-leadership and Performance in Technology-Based Entrepreneurial Firms

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The notion of co-leadership, defined as a structural arrangement where the formal responsibilities at the top of the company are attributed to multiple persons, is receiving increasing attention in recent years as one of the possible conceptualizations of the leadership “in plural form”. Our research aims at exploring the performance implications of co-leadership arrangements in the top management teams (TMTs) of technology based entrepreneurial firms, and at evaluating how such impact is likely to occur. The study is carried out on a sample of technology based entrepreneurial firms operating in Italy. Our study contributes mainly to the literature on co-leadership, by identifying different structural configurations of plural leadership and by shedding some light on the paths through which co-leadership arrangements have an impact on company performance.

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  1. Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

    Daniel Pittino

  2. Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

    Francesca Visintin & Cristiana Compagno

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Serena Cubico

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    Giuseppe Favretto

  3. Department of Management and Economics, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

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Pittino, D., Visintin, F., Compagno, C. (2018). Co-leadership and Performance in Technology-Based Entrepreneurial Firms. In: Cubico, S., Favretto, G., Leitão, J., Cantner, U. (eds) Entrepreneurship and the Industry Life Cycle. Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89336-5_5

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