Corporate effectuation: Entrepreneurial action and its impact on R&D project performance

By Malte Brettel, René Mauer, Andreas Engelen, Daniel Küpper. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Crowdfunding social ventures: a model and research agenda (2013, unknown): “…and can also provide a very tangible competitive advantage later for example through access to patents that may come in handy in ever changing energy and other environmental regulations (Block 2012; Brettel et al. 2012; Cuervo Cazurra and Annique Un 2010; Husted 2005; Mcwilliams and Siegel 2010).”
Get It Together! Synergistic Effects of Causal and Effectual Decision-Making Logics on Venture Performance (2018, background): “Also, Brettel et al. (2012) show that effectuation is positively linked to process output and efficiency in highly innovative R&D projects.”
Effectuation, Exploratory Learning and New Venture Performance: Evidence from China** (2017, background): “Although there is a growing body of literature focused on mature economies (Brettel et al. 2012; Harms and Schiele 2012), few scholars have examined if effectuation could be a predictor of new venture performance in transitional economies.”
Kinship and business: how entrepreneurial households facilitate business growth (2014, background): “Indeed, the role of emotional support and sanctions has garnered considerable interest among the family business research community in recent years (Brundin and Languilaire 2012; Brundin and Wigren 2012).”
Expect the unexpected: examining the shaping role of entrepreneurial orientation on causal and effectual decision-making logic during economic crisis (2018, background): “For example, Brettel et al. (2012) showed that effectual logic often works well in highly innovative projects while causal logic generally works better for more incremental projects.”
Bridging Behavioral Models and Theoretical Concepts: Effectuation and Bricolage in the Opportunity Creation Framework (2016, unknown): “…Song, and Smit (2009), who conducted a metaanalysis, finding significant results for the use of effectual logic on firm performance, and continued by Chandler et al. (2011) and Brettel et al. (2012), who have developed survey constructs to test differences between effectual and causal reasoning.”
An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges, and Provocative Possibilities (2014, unknown): “The use of the affordable loss principle in innovative research and development (R&D) projects has been shown to lead to higher process efficiency (Brettel et al., 2012).”
Do Effectuation Processes Shape the Relationship between Product Diversification and Performance in New Ventures? (2017, methodology): “This response rate is satisfactory, as it approximates those attained in similar empirical studies on effectuation (e.g., Brettel et al., 2012; Chandler et al., 2011).”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, methodology): “…and causation logics, thus we compared the cases with regard to important initial conditions that have been identified in prior research: level of uncertainty (e.g., Sarasvathy, 2008; Brettel et al., 2012) and level of entrepreneurial experience (e.g., Dew et al., 2009; Politis et al. 2012).”
Perceived uncertainty and behavioral logic: Temporality and unanticipated consequences in the new venture creation process (2019, background): “The aforementioned contexts under which effectuation and/ or causation may apply are characterized by uncertainty due to the novelty of the market or technology (Sarasvathy, 2008; Brettel et al., 2012), the initial founding conditions concerning the new venture, and entrepreneurial experiences from ”
Effectuation and foreign market entry of entrepreneurial firms (2015, background): “Effectuation has recently captured the interest of entrepreneurship researchers (see e.g. Brettel et al., 2012; Chandler et al., 2011; Fisher, 2012; Perry et al., 2012).”