Making It Happen: Beyond Theories of the Firm to Theories of Firm Design

By S. Sarasvathy. 2004

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “Heuristics and Biases, as an approach to understand entrepreneurial cognition is useful in describing deviations from formal rationality in which a few ideal choices or solutions are possible, but is limited in dealing with novelty (Sarasvathy, 2004).”
A dynamic model of growth phases and survival in international business-to-business new ventures: The moderating effect of decision-making logic (2013, background): “…decision-making may be especially fruitful as it has been argued that INVs often operate in a three dimensional problem space (Andersson, 2011; Sarasvathy, 2004) consisting of Knightian uncertainty (Knight, 1921), Marchian goal ambiguity (March, 1976), and Weickian enactment (Weick, 1979).”
Self‐regulation and decision heuristics in entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and exploitation (2007, background): “Yet even if one concedes this point about potential bias, some scholars argue that the use of such heuristics is a valuable and even necessary element of effective entrepreneurial decision making, given that they often select opportunities in new or ill-defined markets (Sarasvathy, 2004).”
Social interaction via new social media: (How) can interactions on Twitter affect effectual thinking and behavior? (2011, background): “Finally, Twitter, as a social media channel, renders the entrepreneur him- or herself central to the interaction, and so it is ideally suited to studying effectuation which is also an individualized process (Sarasvathy, 2004).”
Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions (2011, unknown): “We believe that a cognitive perspective that has particular resonance for the study of social entrepreneurship is effectuation theory (Sarasvathy 2001, 2004).”
Imprinting by Design: The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurial Adaptation (2014, background): “Indeed, many entrepreneurs project an entrepreneurial life story or narrative of exploration, risk taking, and independent venturing (Johansson, 2004; Sarasvathy, 2004).”
What Lies Beneath? The Experiential Essence of Entrepreneurial Thinking (2007, background): “Simon’s terms to move from the “semantic” level to at least the “symbolic” level (Sarasvathy, 2004).”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “Shane’s (2012) and Venkataraman, Sarasvathy, Dew, and Forster’s (2012) reflections on the 2010 Academy of Management Review decade award for their article “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research” (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000), as well as the subsequent debate, illustrate the disagreem”
A reconceptualization of fear of failure in entrepreneurship (2016, methodology): “In doing so, we adopt an approach that captures a combination of cognition, affect and action as it relates to the challenging, uncertain, and risk-laden experience of entrepreneurship (Mitchell et al., 2011; Morris et al., 2012; Sarasvathy, 2004).”
Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, background): “Conversely, strategy research reveals why some firms manage to serve their customers better than their rivals do, but it presumes the existence of the firm (Sarasvathy, 2004) and often assumes that”
Under the radar: Industry entry by user entrepreneurs (2010, background): “Thus, user entrepreneurship can be seen as taking a position within a standing debate in entrepreneurship theory about the discovery or creation of opportunities (Alvarez and Barney, 2005, 2007; Sarasvathy, 2001, 2004) by describing entrepreneurial opportunities as created in use.”
Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, unknown): “Brüderl et al. (2009) found that survival is nevertheless a valid approximation for the success of a venture. should have a positive influence on entrepreneurial entry (see Sarasvathy 2004).”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, unknown): “…from many other types of experiences (including management experiences in established firms) in that it is both self-initiated and self-terminated (Sarasvathy, 2004), provides exposure to uncertain and ambiguous operating situations (Morris et al., 2011), involves development of diverse set of…”