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Anna Brattström. Photo.

Anna Brattström

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Bridging cognitive scripts in multidisciplinary academic spinoff teams : A process perspective on how academics learn to work with non-academic managers

Author

  • Ziad El-Awad
  • Anna Brattström
  • Nicola Breugst

Summary, in English

This paper introduces a process model of how academics learn to bridge different cognitive scripts, thereby learning to collaborate with non-academic managers in the context of multidisciplinary academic spinoff (ASO) teams. Whereas prior research has taken a static perspective, showing that cooperation in ASO teams is challenging due to differences in cognitive scripts, we take a dynamic perspective, leveraging rich, longitudinal data on a single case to theorize how such cooperative challenges can be overcome. We reveal two aspects of this process. One is cognitive and intrapersonal, in which academics reconsider their own beliefs and understandings of their venture and the commercial world. The other is social and interpersonal, in which academics reconsider the way they collaborate with others.

Department/s

  • Entrepreneurship

Publishing year

2022

Language

English

Publication/Series

Research Policy

Volume

51

Issue

10

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Learning

Keywords

  • Academic spinoffs
  • Academics
  • Cognitive scripts
  • Learning
  • Longitudinal

Status

Published

Project

  • A LONGITUDINAL PROJECT OF NEW VENTURE TEAM DYNAMICS AND OUTCOMES

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0048-7333