Strategic experimentation: Understanding change and performance in new ventures

By Charlene L. Nicholls-Nixon, A. Cooper, Carolyn Y. Woo. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Shared Authentic Leadership and New Venture Performance (2012, background): “Following Pearce and Sims (2002), who have modified other leadership styles (e.”
The suitability of the configuration approach in entrepreneurship research (2009, background): “According to Nicholls-Nixon, Cooper, and Woo (2000), a more differentiated perspective seems merited.”
Effectuation, Exploratory Learning and New Venture Performance: Evidence from China** (2017, background): “Specifically, experimentation refers to a series of trial and error changes pursued along various dimensions of strategy, over a relatively short period of time, in an effort to identify and establish a viable basis for competing (Chandler et al. 2011; Nicholls-Nixon, Cooper, and Woo 2000).”
When passion fades: disentangling the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial passion for founding (2016, background): “In response to such uncertainty, entrepreneurs may undertake actions such as experimenting and repeatedly changing their idea as faulty preconceptions are ruled out and new insights emerge (Dimov, 2007; Nicholls-Nixon et al., 2000; Sarasvathy, 2001).”
Do Effectuation Processes Shape the Relationship between Product Diversification and Performance in New Ventures? (2017, background): “Under such conditions, experimentation can assist firms in gathering customer and market feedback (Nicholls-Nixon et al., 2000) and generate learning-by-doing (Huber, 1991), which they can then use to update their product market choices and to derive performance benefits (Gruber, MacMillan, &…”
Learning about the unknown: How fast do entrepreneurs adjust their beliefs? (2006, result): “This figure is very similar to one reported by Parker (1997) using British Family Expenditure Survey data from the early 1990s.”
Business Incubation Centers and New Firm Growth in the Basque Country (2004, background): “As such, we might have favored smaller firms in our study due to their lower initial base, even though we tried to adjust our sales growth variable for firm size as it has been suggested elsewhere (Nicholls-Nixon et al., 2000).”
Beyond environmental scarcity: Human and social capital as driving forces of bootstrapping activities (2014, unknown): “The scale achieved acceptable internal reliability with a Cronbach's alpha score of 0.76 (Nunnally, 1978).”