Frédéric DELMAR
Professor 

Frédéric DELMAR - InVent, emlyon business school

 ” Can’t go far in developing great research without good tools
–so I always come prepared… “

Frédéric DELMAR
Professor 

 

I am a professor of entrepreneurship at emlyon business school. Prior to my current appointment, I held positions at Lund University, the Stockholm School of Economics, and Stockholm University, Sweden.
I am an internationally leading scholar in entrepreneurship research. My main research interests are the early development of new ventures and their growth, and my current interest is in new venture team dynamics.
I have published my work in several journals, including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Technovation, and books.

I am a former associate editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2012-2021) and former senior editor for Organization Studies (2010-2015). I am a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Strategic Organization.

delmar@em-lyon.com

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Modeling new-firm growth and survival with panel data using event magnitude regression

Modeling new-firm growth and survival with panel data using event magnitude regression

We introduce a new model to address three methodological biases in research on new venture growth and survival. The model offers entrepreneurship scholars numerous benefits. The biases are identified using a systematic review of 96 papers using longitudinal data published over a period of 20 years. They are: (1) distributional properties of new ventures; (2) selection bias; and (3) causal asymmetry. The biases make the popular use of normal distribution models problematic. As a potential solution, we introduce and test an event magnitude regression model approach (EMM). In this two-stage model, the first model explores the probability of four events: a firm staying the same size, expanding, contracting, or exiting. In the second stage, if the firm contracts or expands, we estimate the magnitude of the change. A suggested benefit is that researchers can better separate the likelihood of an event from its magnitude, thereby opening new avenues for research. We provide an overview of our model analyzing an example data set involving longitudinal venture level data. We provide a new package for the statistical software R. Our findings show that EMM outperforms the widely adopted normal distribution model. We discuss the benefits and consequences of our model, identify areas for future research, and offer recommendations for research practice.
    Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't<br />

    Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don’t

    We investigate how potential co-founders’ perceptions of a founder’s obsessive passion (OP) influence the decision to join a venture team. Using a conjoint experiment with a primary sample of 116 founder-entrepreneurs and validating it with an additional sample of 59 founder entrepreneurs, we found that potential co-founders were more likely to join if they perceived that the founder had OP for developing ventures. Potential co-founders were less likely to join if they perceived OP for founding ventures. Further, we found significant interactions between perceived OPs, as well as interactions between perceived OP and potential co-founders’ own OP.

    OTHER PUBLICATIONS

    The best of both worlds: Can Founder‐CEOs overcome the rich vs. king dilemma after IPO?. Strategic Management. Journal, 39 (13) 3382-3407

    (Fattoum‐Guedri, A., Delmar, F. & Wright, M. – 2018)

    Multiple Blockholder Structures and Family Firm Performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42 (2), 231 – 251

    (Fattoum-Guedri, A., Guedri, Z. & Delmar, F. – 2018)

    Variable risk preferences in new firm growth and survival. Journal of Business Venturing, 31(4), 408-427

    (Wennberg, K., Delmar, F., & McKelvie, A. – 2016)