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Question 1

What does proliferation of administrative roles and personnel leading to financial costs and excessively centralizing decision-making result to?

Answer 1

Reducing capacity to respond to environmental changes

Question 2

What are three recurring dimensions along which entrepreneurs image varied regarding how work and employment should be organized?

Answer 2

• Attachment
• Basis of coordination and control
• Selection

Question 3

What are different models regarding the three recurring dimensions?

Answer 3

• Engineering model
• Star model
• Commitment model
• Bureaucracy model
• Autocracy model

Question 4

What are two aspects of founding conditions?

Answer 4

• The initial gender mix in start-ups
• The founder’s employment model

Question 5

Between which types of firms can the biggest contrast of administrative and managerial jobs can be found?

Answer 5

Commitment-model versus bureaucratic models

Question 6

What is the effect of early presence of women to a firm?

Answer 6

There is a robust negative effect on later administrative intensity of the firm