Entrepreneurial logics for a technology of foolishness

By S. Sarasvathy, Nicholas Dew. 2005

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

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Affordable loss: behavioral economic aspects of the plunge decision (2009, background): “Or entrepreneurs may use effectual strategies such as bringing on board a variety of self-selected stakeholders that help shape and grow the market organically rather than through fi nancial investments (Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005b).”
Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action (2018, background): “In fact, additional information only serves to exacerbate equivocality into isotropy, making it virtually impossible to decipherwhich data are relevant and which not in any given decision or action situation (Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005).”
Institutional Entrepreneurship (2006, background): “…be a particularly interesting avenue of investigation in light of the recent emergence of a theory of entrepreneurial expertise (Sarasvathy, 2006; Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005) which develops the idea that entrepreneurship involves learning from accumulated experience and deliberate practice within…”
Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study (2011, background): “, 1998) or field studies that have gathered and analyzed qualitative data (Sarasvathy and Kotha, 2001; Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005; Harting, 2004; Harmeling, 2005).”
Organising new business in a turbulent context: Opportunity discovery and effectuation for IJV development in transition markets (2009, unknown): “…Eastern European market and international joint venture as a twofold context Because of the socially embedded nature of entrepreneurship (see, e.g. Sarasvathy and Dew 2005b; Buttriss and Wilkinson 2006; Hjorth 2007), we should first take into consideration the twofold context in which the…”
Effectual versus predictive logics in entrepreneurial decision making: Differences between experts and novices: Does experience in starting new ventures change the way entrepreneurs think? Perhaps, but for now, "Caution" is essential (2009, unknown): “5 For a dynamic model of effectual logic, see Sarasvathy and Dew (2005).”
Outlines of a behavioral theory of the entrepreneurial firm (2008, background): “Instead they might be better viewed as engaging in a technology of foolishness as it were (March, 1982; Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005a,b).”
Entrepreneurial Effectuation: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research (2012, background): “…how entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs process risks and returns (Dew, Read, Sarasvathy, & Wiltbank, 2009; Read, Dew, Sarasvathy, Song, & Wiltbank, 2009; Sarasvathy, 1998; Sarasvathy & Dew, 2005; Sarasvathy et al., 1998) (see Table 2 for a summary of the experimental effectuation literature).”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, methodology): “Statements such as above offer a wide gambit of incentives so that a variety of stakeholders can self-select into the process and even interpret the goals to their liking (Fischer and Reuber, 2011; Sarasvathy and Dew, 2005b).”