Spin-offs—new firms created by individuals breaking off from existing ones to create competing companies of their own—are common in many high-technology industries and others as well. This articles examines the structural conditions conducive to spin-offs and the environments from which they are most likely to arise.
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David A. Garvin (1983) studied this question.
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