Uncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process

By Mark D. Packard, Brent B. Clark, Peter G. Klein. Organ. Sci., 2017

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Safety Research

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To Shape or Adapt: Knowledge Problems, Epistemologies, and Strategic Postures under Knightian Uncertainty (2020, background): “Second, much of the discussion of uncertainty has emphasized the absence of knowledge, and the related states of doubt (McMullen & Shepherd, 2006) and unknowingness (Packard et al., 2017; Townsend et al., 2018) that limit the ability of strategists to predict outcomes (Wiltbank, Dew, Read, & Sarasva”
Entrepreneurial uncertainty during the Covid-19 crisis: Mapping the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial finance (2020, background): “During shocks and crisis events, levels of uncertainty escalate at such velocity their impacts become highly debilitating for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial actors such as banks and investors (McMullen and Shepherd, 2006; Block and Sandner, 2009; Packard et al., 2017; Conti et al., 2019).”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “Recent work by Packard et al. (2017) takes steps to address these issues by attempting to expand the multi-dimensionality of Knightian uncertainty to cover multiple states of unknowingness while underscoring the continuous and dynamic nature of decision-making under uncertainty: “Over time,…”
The Context of Entrepreneurial Judgment: Organizations, Markets, and Institutions (2019, unknown): “Packard et al. (2017) note that entrepreneurs face a double-sided uncertainty problem.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “Even though scholars in this community are united in their understanding of the importance of opportunity, judgment, and uncertainty to entrepreneurial action (e.g., McGrath, 1997; Packard et al., 2017; Ramoglou & Tsang, 2016; Rumelt, 1987), they vary considerably in how they conceptualize the proce”