Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process

By Jeffery S. McMullen, Dimo Dimov. 2013

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Entrepreneurial judgment as empathic accuracy: a sequential decision-making approach to entrepreneurial action (2013, background): “Similarly, the goal can significantly predate the situation (like in a premeditated murder) or the situation can evoke the manifestation of a motive in the form of a goal a moment before the act (like in the heat of passion) (McMullen and Dimov, 2013), but again both elements – situation and goal – ”
Entrepreneurial Storytelling, Future Expectations, and the Paradox of Legitimacy (2014, background): “Building on studies of entrepreneurial storytelling as an ongoing process (McMullen and Dimov 2013; O’Connor 2002, 2004), we examine the possibilities and challenges that entrepreneurs confront in their efforts to revise their stories to maintain or regain legitimacy.”
Designing Entrepreneurship Experiments (2017, methodology): “McMullen and Dimov (2013) call for the study of microentrepreneurship activities to identify causal inferences.”
Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector (2018, background): “While advocates have promoted a process perspective on new venture creation (McMullen & Dimov, 2013; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Zahra & Wright, 2011) they have also voiced doubts about the feasibility of broad process studies based on observational data.”
The Mind in the Middle: Taking Stock of Affect and Cognition Research in Entrepreneurship (2015, positive): “Among the most salient reasons for this state of affairs might be the breadth of different mental mechanisms, dynamics and processes that could play critical roles at different stages of the entrepreneurial journey (see McMullen & Dimov, 2013; Wood, Williams & Grégoire, 2012).”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, methodology): “But thinking systematically about continuity is critical because entrepreneurship is a dynamic and evolutionary process (Austin et al. 2012; Dimov 2011; McMullen and Dimov 2013), and such dynamism plays a relevant and unavoidable role in entrepreneurial decision making.”
Rethinking the Commercialization of Public Science: From Entrepreneurial Outcomes to Societal Impacts (2018, background): “…fields of research, including science commercialization and academic entrepreneurship, scholars emphasize the processual nature of the phenomena they study, yet variance approaches continue to dominate (McMullen & Dimov, 2013; Moroz & Hindle, 2012; Rasmussen, 2011; Van de Ven & Engleman, 2004).”
Entrepreneurial universities: emerging models in the new social and economic landscape (2016, background): “phenomena occur at a single point in time (McMullen and Dimov 2013).”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, methodology): “This approach pays tribute to entrepreneurship as a process that involves self-regulation and agency, where entrepreneurs act upon initial conditions, react to perceived changes, and shape their ventures’ development process (cf. McMullen and Dimov, 2013; Wiltbank et al., 2006).”