Does business planning facilitate the development of new ventures

By Frédéric Delmar, Scott A. Shane. 2003

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Do Effectuation Processes Shape the Relationship between Product Diversification and Performance in New Ventures? (2017, background): “The practice of considering one respondent per firm has been supported when the key respondent is the owner because, in new ventures, the founders’ views are identical to the average views of the ventures’ staff (Delmar & Shane, 2003).”
Dominant Logic and Entrepreneurial Firms‘ Performance in a Transition Economy (2010, background): “Other researchers, such as Delmar and Shane (2003), have studied the role of careful business planning in the acquisition and leverage of resources; and Zott and Huy (2007) stressed the role of symbolic management.”
Understanding dynamics of strategic decision-making in venture creation : a process study of effectuation and causation (2015, background): “…to decision-making in the face of uncertainty, including approaches that stress planning and control (e.g., Brinckmann, Grichnik, and Kapsa, 2010; Delmar and Shane, 2003; Miller and Cardinal, 1994) and approaches that emphasize more flexible, adaptive and collaborative decision-making such as…”
Revising entrepreneurial action in response to exogenous shocks: Considering the COVID-19 pandemic (2020, background): “Planning can identify alternative scenarios and enable entrepreneurs to choose the most attractive option at a given time (Delmar and Shane, 2003).”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, background): “In particular, we follow Delmar and Shane (2003) and investigate in the case of disengagement, whether all entrepreneurs involved in the venture report disengagement.”
The Varying Effects of Family Relationships in Entrepreneurial Teams (2013, background): “Prior entrepreneurial experience is frequently used as a control variable and has shown a significant relationship with the success of a new venture (Delmar & Shane, 2003).”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, neutral): “The data also had to follow serial entrepreneurs in ways that properly accounted for sample selection biases (Delmar and Shane, 2003; Hamilton and Nickerson, 2003).”
Nascent entrepreneurship: empirical studies and developments (2005, methodology): “Delmar and Shane ([52], [53], [54], [55]) used a slightly different set of criteria.”
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study (2014, background): “The process of entrepreneurship often involves altering plans as new knowledge is acquired (Delmar and Shane, 2003; Kirsch et al., 2009; Shah and Tripsas, 2007), but crowdfunded ventures do not have this ability, since they have to deliver projects promised before any of this new learning takes…”
Form or Substance: The Role of Business Plans in Venture Capital Decision Making (2009, background): “While Delmar and Shane (2003) find a positive correlation between outcomes and business planning, Honig and Karlsson (2004) find little support for the practice.2 In a broader review of business planning in the context of entrepreneurship, Honig (2004) finds weak empirical evidence of its…”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “By contrast, other researchers advocate that entrepreneurs should predict carefully, using comprehensive analysis and systematic procedures, before engaging in entrepreneurial activities (e.g., Delmar & Shane, 2003).”
Optimism, overconfidence and entrepreneurial activity (2008, positive): “However, we also find that effective entrepreneurs are able to plan (Delmar and Shane, 2003; Gruber, 2007), search for and use information in evaluating opportunities and making decisions (Kaish and Gilad, 1991).”
Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Poverty Alleviation (2014, background): “These opportunities have been described to occur in conditions of risk due to the amount of knowable information needed to enable ex-ante alertness, search, and analysis of information (Delmar & Shane, 2003; Shane, 2003).”
What do business models do? Narratives, calculation and market exploration (2009, neutral): “Delmar and Shane (2003) provide a theoretical grounding to the usefulness of business planning for the entrepreneur.”