Martin Ganco

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Martin Ganco is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Martin Ganco has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 22 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 16 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Martin Ganco's work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (20 papers), Firm Innovation and Growth (18 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (15 papers). Martin Ganco is often cited by papers focused on Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (20 papers), Firm Innovation and Growth (18 papers) and Innovation and Knowledge Management (15 papers). Martin Ganco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Martin Ganco's co-authors include Rajshree Agarwal, Benjamin A. Campbell, April Franco, Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis, Andrew H. Van de Ven, C. R. Hinings, Sofia Bapna, Florence E M Honore, Gwendolyn K. Lee and Rahul Kapoor and has published in prestigious journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Martin Ganco

37 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Who leaves, where to, and why worry? employee mobility, entrepreneurship and effects on source firm performance

2011 422 citations Benjamin A. Campbell, Martin Ganco et al. Strategic Management Journal profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Martin Ganco United States	19	926	868	788	602	380	39	2.0k
Markus Reitzig Austria	22	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	362 0.6×	212 0.6×	55	2.5k
Petra Andries Belgium	21	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	688 0.9×	531 0.9×	401 1.1×	59	2.4k
Hans Löfsten Sweden	25	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	800 1.0×	420 0.7×	216 0.6×	59	2.2k
Işın Güler United States	14	1.1k 1.2×	476 0.5×	384 0.5×	774 1.3×	291 0.8×	34	2.0k
Jaeyong Song South Korea	24	2.3k 2.5×	598 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	561 0.9×	316 0.8×	64	3.0k
MB Sarkar United States	21	2.0k 2.1×	666 0.8×	840 1.1×	947 1.6×	421 1.1×	29	2.8k
Geoffrey G. Bell United States	12	1.4k 1.6×	478 0.6×	521 0.7×	404 0.7×	260 0.7×	24	2.3k
Kendall Artz United States	14	937 1.0×	667 0.8×	590 0.7×	433 0.7×	501 1.3×	25	2.1k
Marcus Matthias Keupp Switzerland	14	1.3k 1.4×	703 0.8×	456 0.6×	378 0.6×	380 1.0×	30	1.9k
Zhongfeng Su China	25	1.2k 1.3×	804 0.9×	390 0.5×	547 0.9×	412 1.1×	54	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Martin Ganco

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ganco, Martin, et al.. (2025). Vague Language, Founding Team Human Capital, and Resource Acquisition. Organization Science. 36(6). 2108–2128. 1 indexed citations

Ganco, Martin, et al.. (2024). Strategic restraint: When do human‐capital‐intensive companies choose (not) to use noncompete agreements?. Strategic Management Journal. 45(13). 2696–2726. 2 indexed citations

Agarwal, Shiva, Cameron Miller, & Martin Ganco. (2023). Growing platforms within platforms: How platforms manage the adoption of complementor products in the presence of network effects?. Strategic Management Journal. 44(8). 1879–1910. 18 indexed citations

Ganco, Martin, et al.. (2023). Reconciling theories on why employees of small firms are more likely to become entrepreneurs. Industrial and Corporate Change. 33(1). 194–215. 1 indexed citations

Bapna, Sofia & Martin Ganco. (2023). Equity Crowdfunding and Access to Capital for User Entrepreneurs: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. MIS Quarterly. 47(2). 585–610. 8 indexed citations

Agarwal, Rajshree, Martin Ganco, & Joseph Raffiee. (2021). Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Early Career Immigration Constraints on New Venture Formation. Organization Science. 33(4). 1372–1395. 12 indexed citations

Kaul, Aseem, Martin Ganco, & Joseph Raffiee. (2021). When Subjective Judgments Lead to Spinouts: Employee Entrepreneurship Under Uncertainty, Firm-Specificity, and Appropriability. Academy of Management Review. 49(2). 215–248. 18 indexed citations

Honore, Florence E M & Martin Ganco. (2020). Entrepreneurial teams' acquisition of talent: Evidence from technology manufacturing industries using a two‐sided approach. Strategic Management Journal. 44(1). 141–170. 39 indexed citations

Bapna, Sofia & Martin Ganco. (2020). Gender Gaps in Equity Crowdfunding: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. Management Science. 67(5). 2679–2710. 81 indexed citations

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Starr, Evan, Martin Ganco, & Benjamin A. Campbell. (2018). Strategic human capital management in the context of cross‐industry and within‐industry mobility frictions. Strategic Management Journal. 39(8). 2226–2254. 7 indexed citations

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Dokko, Gina, et al.. (2018). Innovators’ Mobility: Antecedents and Consequences for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2018(1). 10919–10919. 1 indexed citations

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Honore, Florence E M & Martin Ganco. (2016). Entrepreneurial Teams' Acquisition of Talent: A Two-Sided Approach. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Gambardella, Alfonso, Martin Ganco, & Florence E M Honore. (2014). Using What You Know: Patented Knowledge in Incumbent Firms and Employee Entrepreneurship. Organization Science. 26(2). 456–474. 67 indexed citations

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Ganco, Martin, Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis, & Rajshree Agarwal. (2014). More stars stay, but the brightest ones still leave: Job hopping in the shadow of patent enforcement. Strategic Management Journal. 36(5). 659–685. 124 indexed citations

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Ganco, Martin. (2013). Cutting the Gordian knot: The effect of knowledge complexity on employee mobility and entrepreneurship. Strategic Management Journal. 34(6). 666–686. 150 indexed citations

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Ven, Andrew H. Van de, Martin Ganco, & C. R. Hinings. (2013). Returning to the Frontier of Contingency Theory of Organizational and Institutional Designs. Academy of Management Annals. 7(1). 393–440. 122 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Rajshree, et al.. (2012). Shedding Non Golden Handcuffs. Academy of Management Proceedings. 2012(1). 17368–17368. 1 indexed citations

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Ganco, Martin. (2010). The effect of technological complexity on innovation performance, employee entrepreneurship and mobility: three essays. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Agarwal, Rajshree, Martin Ganco, & Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis. (2009). Reputations for toughness in patent enforcement: implications for knowledge spillovers via inventor mobility. Strategic Management Journal. 30(13). 1349–1374. 273 indexed citations

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Ganco, Martin & Rajshree Agarwal. (2009). Performance Differentials Between Diversifying Entrants and Entrepreneurial start-ups: A Complexity Approach. Academy of Management Review. 34(2). 228–252. 112 indexed citations

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