Unraveling the resource puzzle: exploring entrepreneurial resource management and the quest for new venture success

Existing research highlights resource management as a complicated and multifaceted system comprising interdependent components, rather than a collection of independent factors. Nonetheless, the precise influence of resource management approaches on value generation and overall prosperity in new business endeavors, especially within diverse contextual environments, remains unclear. To address this gap, our study adopts a neo-configurational approach to explore how entrepreneurial resource management components (e.g., structuring, bundling, and leveraging) relate to achieving success in start-ups. We also examine the contextual influence of environmental dynamism and munificence on the effectiveness of these resource management strategies. By analyzing a comprehensive sample of over 500 US-based ventures, we develop a theoretical framework that encompasses four distinct resource management strategies. This framework provides insights into the attainment of success across diverse environments, characterized by varying levels of dynamism and munificence. Our study contributes to extant literature by emphasizing that the achievement of a competitive advantage in entrepreneurial firms is contingent upon the alignment of internal resource management strategies with external factors, specifically dynamism and munificence

Major trends in knowledge management research:a bibliometric study

This study provides an overview of the knowledge management literature from 1980 through 2014. We employ bibliometric and text mining analyses on a sample of 500 most cited articles to examine the impact of factors such as number of authors, references, pages, and keywords on the number of citations that they received. We also investigate major trends in knowledge management literature including the contribution of different countries, variations across publication years, and identifying active research areas and major journal outlets. Our study serves as a resource for future studies by shedding light on how trends in knowledge management research have evolved over time and demonstrating the characteristics of the most cited articles in this literature. Specifically, our results reveal that the most cited articles are from United States and United Kingdom. The most prolific year in terms of the number of published articles is 2009 and in terms of the number of citations is 2012. We also found a positive relationship between the number of publications’ keywords, references, and pages and the number of citations that they have received. Finally, the Journal of Knowledge Management has the largest share in publishing the most cited articles in this field