To Start or Not to Start: Outcome and Ability Expectations in the Decision To Start a New Venture

By David M. Townsend, Lowell W. Busenitz, Jonathan D. Arthurs. 2010

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

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The value of business planning before start-up — A decision-theoretical perspective (2012, background): “According to Townsend et al. (2010), a longer time spent on planning reduces the entrepreneur's outcome expectancy, because windows of opportunity close if the start-up is delayed.”
Entrepreneurial motivation and self-employment: evidence from expectancy theory (2017, methodology): “We also focused on self-employers in manufacturing industries because of the differences in commitment between these new entrepreneurs and those from service industries (Townsend et al. 2010).”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, background): “…important consequences of these beliefs for entrepreneurial outcomes (venture emergence, venture growth, venture success, e.g., Baum and Locke, 2004; Cassar and Friedman, 2009; Townsend, Busenitz, and Arthurs, 2010; Rauch and Frese, 2007), yet, few studies investigate their antecedents.”
Entrepreneurial actions and optimistic overconfidence: The role of motivated reasoning in new product introductions (2012, background): “Townsend et al. (2010), for example, explored whether or not a venture founder was confident of venture success, finding that he or she often was, but the authors never directly examined how the venture fared.”
Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, background): “, 16 out of 19) of the studies analyzed by Zhao and Seibert (2006) were also part of the studies analyzed by Rauch and Frese (2007).”
Social cognitive determinants of entrepreneurial career choice in university students (2016, background): “By the same token, some scholars have found that expectations of ability and outcome interact to determine entrepreneurial career choice (Fitzsimmons and Douglas, 2011; Townsend et al., 2010).”
The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes (2012, background): “and performance. Self-efficacy, and particularly entrepreneurial self-efficacy (McGee et al. 2009), appears to be an important antecedent to new venture intentions and creation (Chen et al. 1988; Boyd and Vozikis 1994; Zhao et al. 2005; Barbosa et al. 2007; Markman et al. 2005; Wilson et al. 2007; ”
Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “…information relating to detailed cognitive dimensions of human capital (Busenitz and Barney, 1997), as well as future expectations (Cassar, 2010; Townsend et al., 2010); reasons for, and types of, closure (Amaral et al., 2011; Wennberg et al., 2010); sources and amounts of financial support…”