The fallacy of "only the strong survive": The effects of extrinsic motivation on the persistence decisions for under-performing firms
By Dawn R. DeTienne, Dean A. Shepherd, J. D. Castro. 2008
291 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/169b8a8832d7da0acce19688f535fd72fc7c5928
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In Accounting
- Melissa S. Cardon
- Dean A. Shepherd
- Per Davidsson
- Ute Stephan
- Ethel Brundin
- Daniel V. Holland
- Veronika Gustafsson
- C. Mitteness
In Management of Technology and Innovation
- Ute Stephan
- Per Davidsson
- Dean A. Shepherd
- Melissa S. Cardon
- Dominika Wach
- Marjan Gorgievski
- Veronika Gustafsson
- Ethel Brundin
Citations in the corpus
- Panel studies of new venture creation: a methods-focused review and suggestions for future research (2012, background): “Other research has made some progress in making a theoretical distinction between drivers of persistence and success (e.g. Cooper et al. 1994; DeTienne et al. 2008), which can serve as further inspiration for PSED-type work along the suggested lines.”
- The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes (2012, background): “Previous entrepreneurship research has shown that entrepreneurs persist with under-performing firms ( DeTienne et al. 2008 ).”
- Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and Entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies (2013, background): “, those who are approaching the survival point (DeTienne et al., 2008; Gimeno et al., 1997).”
- More than money: Developing an integrative multi-factorial measure of entrepreneurial success (2016, background): “In addition, entrepreneurs may persist with underperforming firms for as long as individual non-monetary goals are considered satisfactory (DeTienne et al., 2008).”
- Entrepreneurs’ decision making under different levels of uncertainty: the role of emotions (2013, background): “Previous studies have concluded that reasons such as sunk costs and extrinsic motivation (Detienne et al., 2008), exit costs (Karakaya, 2000), intrinsic motivation (Gimeno et al., 1997), overconfidence (McCarthy et al., 1933), previous success (Levinthal, 1991), and social norms (McGrath, 1999) may…”