How Do Entrepreneurs Organize Firms Under Conditions of Uncertainty?

By Sharon A. Alvarez, Jay B. Barney. 2005

530 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9d6d6a9a7c241f13ed4050b8e569996fa57a4697

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Business and International Management

In Management of Technology and Innovation

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Friends, Family, or Fools: Entrepreneur Experience and its Implications for Equity Distribution and Resource Mobilization (2012, background): “Specific experience also helps entrepreneurs evaluate the combination of resources that will likely yield greater value than the individual resources (Alvarez and Barney, 2005).”
Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Poverty Alleviation (2014, background): “…desire of entrepreneurs to create and appropriate value by starting and organizing firms that co-create cross-border markets, influence and involve stakeholders, and shape uncertain contexts—into the theory of the firm can form the basis of a new theory of the firm (Alvarez & Barney, 2005).”
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Entrepreneurship Research (2007, background): “…mechanisms they use to deal with uncertainty and organizing (R. C. Hill & Levenhagen, 1995; Sarasvathy, 2001), acquisition and organization of resources (Alvarez & Barney, 2005; Lounsbury & Glynn, 2001), and the decision to exploit opportunities (Choi & Shepherd, 2004; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000).”
Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, background): “Fifth, there are links between the ideas in this paper and the long-running debate over the place of entrepreneurship in the theory of the firm, if any (Casson, 1999, 2000; Alvarez and Barney, 2004, 2005; Dew et al, 2004, Boudreaux and Holcombe, 1989).”
Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions (2007, background): “[7] Sometimes personal charisma is described with similar attributes, and entrepreneurship is then identified with charismatic leadership (Alvarez and Barney, 2005; Langlois, 1998).”
What Do I Take with Me?: The Mediating Effect of Spin-Out Team Size and Tenure on the Founder-Firm Performance Relationship (2016, unknown): “…departing firm because of her superior individual skills, we argue that higher quality founders beget higher quality spin-outs and have a larger adverse impact on their parent firms because they are able to attract more individuals to their young, uncertain organizations (Alvarez & Barney, 2005).”
International Exposure Through Network Relationships: Implications for New Venture Internationalization (2013, result): “While our findings are consistent with prior studies on internationalization via networks (Alvarez and Barney, 2005, Gulati, 1999, Johanson and Vahlne, 2006 and Johanson and Vahlne, 2009), results on the differential degrees of reliance on networks for venture internationalization are intriguing.”
International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “Prior experience from similar settings helps to reduce uncertainty (Alvarez & Barney, 2005) in subsequent internationalization endeavors.”
Integrating Discovery and Creation Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Action: The Relative Roles of Founding CEO Human Capital, Social Capital, and Psychological Capital in Contexts of Risk Versus Uncertainty (2015, methodology): “Therefore, our use of the terms ‘discovery’ and ‘creation’ is focused on the environmental context subsequent to business launch (Alvarez and Barney, 2005) and, thus, linked to the development and growth phase of the entrepreneurial process.”
Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm (2007, background): “Finally, both opportunity discovery and problem-solving relate to ‘value creation’ similarly in the literature (e.g. compare Alvarez and Barney, 2005; Jones and Butler, 1992; Ramirez, 1999; to Hansen and Nohria, 2004; Heiman and Nickerson, 2004; Kanter, 1989).”
The Theory of Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship (2007, background): “Alvarez (2003), Barney (1986) and Alvarez and Barney (2005, 2007) have provided a compelling theoretical basis suggesting that entrepreneurial opportunities tend to be greater in contexts characterized by a high degree of uncertainty as compared to risk.”
Making sense of the elusive paradigm of entrepreneurship (2015, background): “The phenomenon of entrepreneurship is more dynamic and far reaching than management as it must deal with the constant uncertainty that pervades the entrepreneurial opportunity (Alvarez and Barney 2005).”
Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action (2011, background): “…between risk and uncertainty such that risk implies that the probabilities of future outcomes are knowable, whereas uncertainty implies that they are unknowable (e.g. Knight, 1921; Alvarez and Barney, 2005) 2 and 2) dynamism and turbulence constitute external factors that contribute to uncertainty.”