Start-up Organization Research Articles

The Role The Role of Job Satisfaction in Minimizing Turnover Intention in Start-Up Companies

This study is a literature review study that aims to see the role of job satisfaction on turnover intention, especially in start-up companies. Start-up companies today have the opportunity to grow rapidly supported by technology and information. Many interesting things can be reviewed from start-up companies, one of which is that start-up companies are dominated by Gen Z and millennials. Where generation Z and millennials are known for their characteristics or attitudes that easily feel bored when they can't get the opportunity to develop and easily feel bored with monotonous types of work. So that this triggers the emergence of turnover intention, including start-up companies. For this reason, it is necessary to make efforts to minimize the emergence of turnover intention through increasing and understanding what factors can increase job satisfaction so as to minimize the emergence of turnover intention from each individual in the start-up organization.

Antecedants of Employee Retention Among Startup Organization

Antecedants of Employee Retention Among Startup Organization

Enterprise Architecture Design Using TOGAF ADM: The Case of KotaKita

One of the benefits of implementing enterprise architecture is creating harmony in between business and information technology for the needs of organization, beside that information system architecture is also a management practice and technology that is useful to improve company performance by allowing them to see themselves in terms of a holistic and integrated view of strategic direction, business practices, information flows and technological resources (Wiranti et al., 2020). The application of enterprise architecture is inseparable from how to plan an organization but also in designing enterprise architecture. In carrying out the design required a complete and easy methodology. TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) as a framework for building generic enterprise architectures provides complete and easy-to-understand and implement stages. Currently there are not many applications or systems that provides local city information, communication and social media (events, tourist sites, business listings, communities, so on and so forth). Although there is, the application or system does not provide information in an informative manner, the information is scattered in various sources. KotaKita is a product which will be build by startup organization to fill the gap and providing the information on the locality of areas throughout Indonesia, KotaKita can be used as a means of communication of local regional social communities. The Implementation of enterprise architecture (EA) in startup organizations is not a must, but the implementation of enterprise architecture will be very useful in building an architectural blueprint that can be used to make better plans and decisions.

Kiva: wow, $10 million!

Research methodology This compact case is based on secondary, published information about the Kiva organization, both in book and article format, listed in the reference list at the end of this teaching note. In addition, the authors accessed the Kiva website using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. This allowed to view Kiva’s webpages when they were a startup organization. Case overview/synopsis Kiva’s co-founder, Jessica Jackley, is offered $10m by the corporate social responsibility director of a large technology firm. Students discuss why Jessica hesitates to accept the $10m and explore the meaningful application of a nonprofit’s mission statement and the concepts of mission creep and mission drift. The case can be read in class for immediate discussion or assigned outside of class. Ultimately, the students decide and defend whether Jessica should accept the $10m on behalf of Kiva. In the strategic management sections, students were split 35% accept and 65% do not accept which produced a rich discussion. Complexity academic level This compact case has been used in several sections of the capstone strategic management course composed of senior, undergraduate and business majors. This case is used early in the course as an application of the mission and values chapter. This case could also be used in management courses in entrepreneurship, nonprofit organizations and principles.

The Role of a Leader in Creating Business Success in the Example of a Start-up Organization

Purpose – The aim of the article is to identify the desired leadership competencies and behaviors that affect business success, with particular emphasis on innovative start-up organizations. Research method – The publication was created based on the analysis of the existing data. In addition, the quantitative research results (2020–2021) in Lublin Voivodeship were analyzed for the doctoral thesis. The focus was on the competencies and behaviors of start-up leaders/founders that influence success. A survey questionnaire was used in the study. Results – The most crucial task of a leader is to focus on employees, inspire them to carry out tasks according to the organization’s interests, and skillfully use their distinguishing features and competencies. Success in a start-up is possible when its leader/founder focuses on the decision-making process and relational capital and is convinced of the success of the assumed goals. Originality /value /implications /recommendations – The completed research are essential from the perspective of the further search for leadership competencies and behaviors that affect success in various types of organizations, with particular emphasis on modern business models. The use of appropriate competencies and behaviors by the leader/founder of a start-up guarantees: the transition to the next stage of the start-up’s development, increase in its value, increase in the strength of internal relations, implementation of the assumed social goals and deepening cooperation with external stakeholders.

Early-Stage vs. Growth-Stage Startups: Examining the Differences in the Perception of Factors Instrumental to Success

A stream of research available in the literature focuses on startup success factors, although there is a lack of consensus in determining what these factors are. In general, there are two critical groups of success factors, organizational and entrepreneurial, both considered to be integral parts of internal startup environment. Since the perception of early-stage (incubation stage) and growth stage (post incubation stage) startup entrepreneurs differ significantly they tend to perceive important success factors distinctively. As a result, attributes of success differ considerably. This paper aims at capturing internal startup environment as it is considered to be crucial in shaping startup’s success in contrast to external environment that is more remote and (usually) not manageable.
 Primary data were collected using an online survey questionnaire and quantitative approach was used; data were analysed using descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test. The final research sample consisted of 70 startups and the findings indicate that the perception of internal environment and its contribution to overall success differs significantly from the perspective of early-stage and growth stage startup entrepreneurs. Out of analysed internal factors, statistically significant differences were identified for prior experience in starting the company and self-confidence (individual’s/entrepreneur’s category factors) and internal startup organization and team-level competencies (organizational category factors).
 The contribution of this research is evident in identifying important internal factors that determine startup’s success (that aspiring startup founders can benefit from) and providing an insight into the startup community in Croatia, thus contributing to a scarce empirical literature on the topic available. Limitations of the research include sample size and subjective assessment of the success factors, so recommendations for future research include repeating the research on a larger sample, covering the international level and widening a set of key-performance indicators that can be assessed at a higher level of rigour with objective metrics.

Start-up as an Environment to Promote Innovation Activities

The article summarizes the relevance and importance of activities in the field of start-ups as a source of modern innovative ideas. It is determined that a successful start-up requires a favourable environment both at the level of the start-up organization and at the level of its implementation. It is substantiated that in the conditions of low innovation activity start-ups can serve as a tool for intensification of innovation activity. Based on the results of the study, the directions of a favourable environment formation for the development of start-ups are proposed. At the macro level, the necessary changes are related to the formation of appropriate culture and regulatory activities, technical development, dissemination of experience and international practice, needs, desires and requirements of consumers, at the micro level — management technologies that create a favourable environment for the formation and implementation of start-ups. Modern organizational forms for attracting the investment resources into the innovative development of organizations and society as a whole on the basis of the allocation of start-ups, project activities and pilot projects are considered. The results of the introduction of start-ups in domestic practice are analysed and their characteristics are presented. Attention is drawn to the importance of considering of potential stakeholders who are interested in creating an innovative product within a start-up or other forms of investment, and create conditions that directly or indirectly affect the implementation of innovative ideas. The differences between start-ups, project management and pilot project are summarized and highlighted. It is substantiated that the implementation of pilot projects is appropriate in the conditions of approbation of the initiative, new concept or process or test for the organization. It is determined that the basis for both pilot projects and start-ups is the project management methodology. Examples of pilot projects for domestic oil and gas companies are considered. The key provisions for the implementation of a new concept of development or innovation in domestic enterprises through various forms of project activities are highlighted.

Effective social media communication for startups in China: Antecedents and outcomes of organization–public dialogic communication

This study examines startups’ social media communication practice in China through the theoretical lens of dialogic communication. Drawing interdisciplinary insights from public relations and computer-mediated communication, this study explored conversational human voice and social presence as antecedents of startups’ dialogic communication with publics on social media and explored publics’ trust and positive word-of-mouth as potential outcomes of this process. Results from an online survey with 1061 social media users in China who had followed at least one startup organization revealed that startups’ conversational human voice and social presence on social media helped drive organization–public dialogic communication, which in turn fostered publics’ trust and positive word-of-mouth toward startups. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Barriers to Bringing Design Function into Technology Start-Ups: A Survey on the Incubation Programme of Hong Kong Science Park

The intersection between Design and Entrepreneurship is an emerging research field. Design is stated as an approach, process or method for Entrepreneurship. This overlaps with the concept of Design Management, especially the entrepreneurial mode of Design Management. However, we argue that the way of bringing Design function into a tech start-up organization was ignored. As a new venture, there is a process of introducing and applying the Design function. This implies a changed relationship between Design function and the tech start-ups, which are in different stages of Design Management maturity. To fill this gap, an online survey of 123 tech start-ups in Hong Kong Science Park was conducted. Three main findings are obtained: 1) heterogeneous Design demands according to the Design Management maturity; 2) a process-based view of bringing Design function into tech start-ups; 3) four main barriers to bringing Design function.

Optimize Network Infrastructure using Architecting and Protocols

This paper focuses on designing and optimize network infrastructure using different techniques. Nowadays most people and organizations use the internet, so the main problem is how to connect reliable and efficient ways to manage clients. Using networking fundamentals and techniques to reduce traffic and optimize network infrastructure on the small organization. We provide an optimal solution for small and start-up organization so they can effort own devices instead of renting servers and routers.

Kualitas Sistem Pembelajaran Pengajar Tahsin dan Tahfizh di Organisasi Startup Pengajar Diponegoro Yogyakarta

This type of research was field research, which used qualitative description in order to know the quality of the instructors of tahsin and tahfiz learning system in the Pengajar Diponegoro startup organization Yogyakarta. Method used is qualitative method with interview technique and documentation. interview data collection technique was obtained through data triangulation, namely: official responses, teacher and client about quality of the instructors learning system of tahsin and tahfiz in the Pengajar Diponegoro startup. The results showed that the Pengajar Diponegoro startup organization Yogyakarta has concern about quality of the instructor learning system of tahsin and tahfiz. This has proven some result including: (1) official has prepared e-learning website including learning implementation plan and learning resource, (2) implementation of quality of learning system had made better through the official development team learning, through the planning process, (3) evaluation of quality of learning system must be done to improve the quality of the learning process adjusted to the objectives of planning and implementation, (4) the quality standard of learning system has already fulfilled the better result, (5) from the characteristic of view, the total quality management has already fulfilled the characteristics.

Blockchain Governance: Perspective An Evaluation from COBIT 5

Currently blockchain has been recognized and implemented in cryptocurrency sector, but notfor other industry, especially enterprise. Through this research it is expected to help the adoption process of blockchain. The evaluation was conducted on blockchain through testing using COBIT 5 cascaded from Stakeholder Question to IT Process. 35% of organization goal is applicable with selected stakeholder question, while 65% is applicable with IT related goal. The results of the analysis stated that finding of this study was more applicable for enterprise organizations such as fintech company with some parameters need to be added as the future work due to the enterprise organization had a lot of business and governance processes that were already running. Meanwhile the start-up organization can be audited as well based on this process.

Falling Not Far from the Tree: Entrepreneurs and Organizational Heritage

Past research has shown that founders bring important capabilities and resources from their prior employment into their new firms and that these intergenerational transfers influence the performance of these ventures. However, we know little about whether organizational practices also transfer from parents to spawns, and if so, what types of practices are transferred? Using a combination of survey and registrar data and through a detailed identification strategy, we examine these two previously unaddressed questions. Our results provide strong evidence for organizational heritage in practices. About 70% of the comparisons of start-ups and other established organizations are less similar than the average similarity between a parent organization and its spawn and that the overlap in organizational practices is almost 10% greater between a spawn and its parents than between the spawn and other established firms. Our further investigation shows that not all practices seem to find their way into the new entrepreneurial firms. In particular, practices that are valuable for and fit with the requirements of a start-up organization, and at the same time are more clearly defined and casually less ambiguous, are more likely to be transferred by the founders from their previous employers. These results contribute to our understanding of how entrepreneurs assemble their organizations and practice innovation as well as the diffusion of practices and the origins of firm heterogeneity.

Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (C)

This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes the community, the need, and the origins of Farm to School in Livingston, Montana. The leaders of Farm to School face a budget crisis and need to evaluate four options to decide whether, when, and how it should become an independent organization. As Case (B) begins, Farm to School has decided to enter into a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the local community foundation. The next task for the organization's leaders is recruiting founding board members. They need to decide whom to ask and how to do it. In Case (C), the board develops a strategic plan and establishes committees. However, the board members and leaders start to feel fatigue in the face of the demands of a startup organization, leading to questions about what is truly strategic and how work will get done. The Farm to School organization in Case (D) has just issued its first annual report, filled with meaningful accomplishments. The leaders of the organization begin to plan to build an organization that will outlast them and the founding board members.

Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (D)

This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes the community, the need, and the origins of Farm to School in Livingston, Montana. The leaders of Farm to School face a budget crisis and need to evaluate four options to decide whether, when, and how it should become an independent organization. As Case (B) begins, Farm to School has decided to enter into a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the local community foundation. The next task for the organization's leaders is recruiting founding board members. They need to decide whom to ask and how to do it. In Case (C), the board develops a strategic plan and establishes committees. However, the board members and leaders start to feel fatigue in the face of the demands of a startup organization, leading to questions about what is truly strategic and how work will get done. The Farm to School organization in Case (D) has just issued its first annual report, filled with meaningful accomplishments. The leaders of the organization begin to plan to build an organization that will outlast them and the founding board members.

Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)

This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes the community, the need, and the origins of Farm to School in Livingston, Montana. The leaders of Farm to School face a budget crisis and need to evaluate four options to decide whether, when, and how it should become an independent organization. As Case (B) begins, Farm to School has decided to enter into a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the local community foundation. The next task for the organization's leaders is recruiting founding board members. They need to decide whom to ask and how to do it. In Case (C), the board develops a strategic plan and establishes committees. However, the board members and leaders start to feel fatigue in the face of the demands of a startup organization, leading to questions about what is truly strategic and how work will get done. The Farm to School organization in Case (D) has just issued its first annual report, filled with meaningful accomplishments. The leaders of the organization begin to plan to build an organization that will outlast them and the founding board members.

Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (B)

This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes the community, the need, and the origins of Farm to School in Livingston, Montana. The leaders of Farm to School face a budget crisis and need to evaluate four options to decide whether, when, and how it should become an independent organization. As Case (B) begins, Farm to School has decided to enter into a fiscal sponsorship agreement with the local community foundation. The next task for the organization's leaders is recruiting founding board members. They need to decide whom to ask and how to do it. In Case (C), the board develops a strategic plan and establishes committees. However, the board members and leaders start to feel fatigue in the face of the demands of a startup organization, leading to questions about what is truly strategic and how work will get done. The Farm to School organization in Case (D) has just issued its first annual report, filled with meaningful accomplishments. The leaders of the organization begin to plan to build an organization that will outlast them and the founding board members.

Становление и изменение процесса принятия решений в организациях

The research discusses the development of the decision-making process in organizations starting from a start-up organization where several people are involved and ending with a growing organization with thousands of employees. The process of making decisions is exemplified by companies that have already devised the decision-making strategies or not. The paper raises the issue of the possibility and the need to violate and change the established decision-making process within the company and identifies the challenges met by organizations. The research focuses on the entry of new agents of influence on decision-making processes and their changes in this regard, in particular, when attracting investments both from the private investor and during the placement of securities.

Conceptualizing the Roles of Founder Personality Traits in Startups' Construction of Brand Identity

ABSTRACTFounder personality traits (FPT's in short) play unique roles in a start-up organization's brand identity construction (BIC in short) and hence merit more research attention (Miller 2015). Here, startup FPT's are theorized to play three different roles that give rise to three different startup brand identities because of start-ups' BIC.The first role played by startup FPT's is an indirect one that gives rise to a startup brand identity called a sticky identity. In order to build the sticky identity, we propose that startups focus on innovative product features regardless of FPT. The second role played by startup FPT's is a long-term-oriented direct one that gives rise to a startup identity called a static identity. In order to build the static identity we propose that startups with joiner-cultured FPT's focus on long-term gains such as loyalty. The third role played by startup FPT's is a short-term-oriented direct one that gives rise to a startup identity called a fluid identity. In order to build the fluid identity we propose that startups with non-joiner cultured FPT's focus on short-term gains such as transient, sporadic, but profitable transactions.

Uma hipertrofia do presente : Do trabalho e das situações de trabalho numa organização start-up

O universo start-up tem vindo a ser apresentado, em termos públicos, mediáticos e políticos, como uma possível nova via para o crescimento económico português. A referência a uma organização start-up define, no presente, uma amenidade, uma platitude, correlativa do louvor dos seus méritos como factos consumados. Perspetivas alternativas deste fenómeno são pouco frequentes ou pouco visíveis. O presente artigo equaciona as implicações da natureza temporária de uma organização start-up, apresentando os resultados de uma pesquisa longitudinal concretizada num contexto organizacional específico. Partindo da análise apresentada, sugere-se que as situações concretas de trabalho numa organização start-up são potencialmente enformadas por atributos socioculturais particulares, decorrentes de uma conceção e de um uso particular do tempo : a impermanência normativa, o foco concedido à ação, a secundarização do conflito, o fervor finito da experiência vivida.