Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise

By Harry Matlay. 2008

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research (2021, unknown): “When individuals engage in the entrepreneurial process, their skills, mind-set, and identity often evolve (Morris & Morris, 2012; Sarasvathy, 2008).”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, background): “Stakeholders, defined as individuals who dedicate their own resources to cocreate new ventures with entrepreneurs (Sarasvathy, 2001, 2008; Venkataraman, 2002), are central to the development of all new ventures (Aldrich, 1999; Aldrich and Fiol, 1994; Suchman, 1995).”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, unknown): “Entrepreneurs who employ an effectual logic begin with the means at hand and focus on selecting between possible effects that can be created with that set of means (rather than using causal logic to specify the ends and subsequently gather means to reach those ends; Sarasvathy, 2001, 2008).”
Business model innovation: The effects of exploratory orientation, opportunity recognition, and entrepreneurial bricolage in an emerging economy (2015, methodology): “Sarasvathy (2008) employed a similar concept of making do with resources at hand in her explication of effectual entrepreneurship.”
The three faces of China: Strategic alliance partner selection in three ethnic Chinese economies (2014, background): “It also helps in the understanding of how decision-makers utilize stepwise theory-in-use thinking as they weigh choices and solve daily problems (cf. Sarasvathy, 2008).”
Much Ado about Nothing? The Surprising Persistence of Nascent Entrepreneurs through Macroeconomic Crisis (2016, background): “Along those lines, prior research has highlighted how business founders can get by under tough circumstances through smart, frugal, and highly adaptive strategies and tactics (Baker & Nelson, 2005; Sarasvathy, 2008).”
A holistic market conceptualization (2015, methodology): “The effectual logic (Read et al. 2009; Sarasvathy and Dew 2005; Sarasvathy 2008) draws on Simon’s (1981) idea of artifact seen as “a boundary (interface) between an inner environment and an outer one” (Sarasvathy 2008, p.”
Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process (2017, background): “The effectu-ation literature (Dew et al. 2009a; Sarasvathy 2001, 2008) argues that expert entrepreneurs tend to reject attempts to predict the future, but instead seek to shape future outcomes through effective control of resources (Ucbasaran 2008).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “In some cases the effects of individuation are rather counterintuitive, which adds to the conceptual conversation on opportunity beliefs, the subjective nature of those beliefs, and the role they play as entrepreneurs engage in interpretive judgments of opportunities (Barreto, 2012; Sarasvathy, 2008”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, unknown): “However, as the social entrepreneur must engage in processes of seeking financial and nonfinancial resources, trying out different approaches, and so on, very often initial intentions, actions, and results are different from ultimate outcomes (cf. Sarasvathy, 2009).”
Get It Together! Synergistic Effects of Causal and Effectual Decision-Making Logics on Venture Performance (2018, methodology): “Such stakeholders are self-selected, commit to the extent that they want to contribute to the new venture, and may include people (e.g., customers, suppliers, technology enthusiasts) or organizations (e.g., financial institutions, universities; Sarasvathy, 2008).”
Effectuation As Ineffectual? Applying the 3E Theory-Assessment Framework to a Proposed New Theory of Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “Effectuation is described as an internally consistent set of ideas that forms a clear basis for action (Sarasvathy, 2008: 17).”
‘I Like How You Think’: Similarity as an Interaction Bias in the Investor–Entrepreneur Dyad (2011, unknown): “That said this same study also highlights cases where certain entrepreneurs – in certain situations – preferred causation to effectuation, and also situations where entrepreneurs demonstrated no preference (Sarasvathy, 2008).”