Managerial determinants of decision speed in new ventures

By Daniel P. Forbes. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Nascent Entrepreneurs and Venture Emergence: Opportunity Confidence, Human Capital, and Early Planning (2010, background): “Experienced entrepreneurs may utilize different information search patterns (Cooper et al., 1995; Forbes, 2005) and thus determine more quickly the merits of the opportunity.”
Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making (2015, background): “For example, to the extent that start-up experience speeds decision making (Forbes, 2005b), the decision to create a new venture occurs more quickly, enabling the entrepreneur to more rapidly build his or her experience, which could create an experience-speed spiral.”
Strategy-Process Research: What Have We Learned and What Is Still to Be Explored (2006, background): “This may include static organizational characteristics such as size (Yasai-Ardekani & Nystrom, 1996), age (Forbes, 2005), structure (Covin, Slevin, & Schultz, 1994), or technology (Molloy & Schwenk, 1995) as well as dynamic organizational characteristics such as routines (Baum & Wally, 2003),…”
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities (2015, background): “Delmar & Shane (2004) New venture survival + Colombo & Grilli (2005) New venture growth + NS Forbes (2005) Strategic decision speed + Delmar & Shane (2006) New venture survival and sales + (survival) MS+ (sales) Haber & Reichel (2007) Revenues, number of employees, profitability vs.”
New Venture Growth: A Review and Extension (2006, background): “As decision speed can affect the longevity of new firms (Forbes, 2005), the factors that influence it may be important indirect predictors of new venture growth.”
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture (2019, background): “More specifically, through formal education individuals acquire knowledge and skills that would allow them to gather, process, and analyze relevant information (Capelleras and Greene 2008; Forbes 2005; Kim et al. 2006).”
Entrepreneurs' Optimism And New Venture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective (2009, methodology): “Whereas other studies have dummy-coded the previous founding of new ventures dichotomously as 0 or 1 (e.g., Cooper, Folta, & Woo, 1995; Forbes, 2005), we used the actual number of new ventures started as our study variable.”
The Role of Human Capital in Loan Officers’ Decision Policies (2008, unknown): “A greater level of knowledge can help decision makers more efficiently process and make sense of larger quantities of information and consequently reach decisions quicker (Forbes, 2005; Logan, 1990; Wozniak, 1987).”
Individual–Level Resources and New Business Activity: The Contingent Role of Institutional Context (2013, background): “Because people with domain-specific skills are more efficient in gathering and analyzing the information required for a task at hand (Forbes, 2005), they should be more likely to perceive entrepreneurship as a viable career option to the extent that they believe they hold relevant knowledge for…”