“Pivot Like Your Life Depends On It!” Mastering Early-Stage Business Experimentation
Entrepreneurs struggle to pivot due to identity-based resistance, but overcoming this may be critical for business model experimentation. Convergent mixed methods reveal that entrepreneurial experience, startup mentoring, and team size enable pivoting, particularly regarding value propositions.
How Founding Teams’ Diversity Shapes Culture and Impacts Venture Success
The paper focuses on how a founding team's cognitive diversity shapes the creation of a venture's culture and how this impacts venture outcomes such as reliability, legitimacy, and stakeholder engagement. The model presented in the paper serves as an initial step towards understanding culture creation in new ventures, hoping to inspire further research on the topic.
How Entrepreneurs Avoid Burnout and Thrive
The study reveals that despite high work engagement and low recovery levels, entrepreneurs avoid burnout and accumulate positive psychological outcomes by investing in more work engagement in a positive environment. This positive workaholism is an adaptive psychological strategy that helps entrepreneurs stay in control of their business and gain personal benefits.
Walls to tear down
An analysis of the impact business receive from government limitations and how these set the landscape for entrepreneurs
Rags to Riches?
Social classes in entrepreneurs can eventually be a determining factor when it comes to how effectively they use their resources
Stakeholder Effectuation & Causation
Causal and effectual logic in the decision-making process.
Homo Economicus: Rationality & Entrepreneurship.
The impact of rationality, and how it shapes the learning process.
Cracks in the wall
The boundaries of rationality's utility or disutility in entrepreneurship are unclear.
Trust behaviors of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have different trust behaviors from non-entrepreneurs when facing changing environments.
In the heat of the game
“Opportunity” as intentional content vs. opportunity as conditions of satisfaction
Sitting on the fence
Uncertainty in entrepreneurship and employment jointly shape hybrid entry.
Failed but validated?
For failed crowdfunding projects, more market validation predicts commercialization performance.
Sowing the Seeds of Failure
Stakeholder constraints can give rise to diminishing returns from pivoting
Stakeholder Identification and Enrollment in Emerging Ventures
Three forms of social action lead to stakeholder enrollment
Resourcefulness Behaviors: An Agentic Perspective
Trait frugality positively relates to higher amounts of self-reliant resourcefulness behaviors.
How entrepreneurship may affect different types of poverty constraints?
Due to their marginalization, abject women cannot confront poverty on their own.
Religion and The Entrepreneurial Process
Religion holds great promise as an alternative perspective for entrepreneurship scholars
How do Entrepreneurs Engage Communities of Inquiry?
How do entrepreneurs engage communities of inquiry to develop opportunities?
How to accurately measure entrepreneurial intention?
A general model which explains entrepreneurs of the different types would allow better comparison and analysis between the entrepreneur types on a common conceptual basis.