... into the cognitive realm of entrepreneurial team dynamics and offers a fresh perspective informed by neuroscience literature integrated with the upper echelons theory. Further, this paper highlights the important boundary conditions by depicting the moderating role of human capital. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jian Liu; Haibo Zhou; Rainer Harms; Petra De Weerd-Nederhof Purpose This study examines how entrepreneurial team resilience develops amid persistent adversity, focusing on mechanisms through which teams move between resilience states as the novelty, disruption and criticality of adversity change...

... a superordinate entity that transcends the individual members (Marks et al., 2001). Prior research on entrepreneurial teams has focused on the implications of compositional team characteristics (such as size, age, levels of experience and diversity) and the association of such characteristics...

... et al., 2004 ; Davidsson and Honig, 2003). Hunsdiek (1987) reports that new high-tech ventures in Germany have a median of 2.2 entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial teams are founders of 70 percent of the firms in the high-tech industries in the USA (Cooper et al., 1990). And team-started...