What is a pivot? Explaining when and how entrepreneurial firms decide to make strategic change and pivot

J Kirtley, S O'Mahony - Strategic Management Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary Most theories of strategic change focus on how large,
established firms recognize or fail to recognize the need for strategic change. Little research …

Continual corporate entrepreneurial search for long-term growth

G Bhardwaj, JC Camillus… - Management …, 2006 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper examines how established firms conduct continual entrepreneurial search for
possibilities for long-term growth. Drawing on comprehensive internal documents of the …

Erratic strategic decisions: When and why managers are inconsistent in strategic decision making

JR Mitchell, DA Shepherd… - Decision Making in …, 2016 - elgaronline.com
Strategic decisions are those choices made by managers that commit important resources,
set important precedents, and/or direct important firmlevel actions (Mintzberg, Raisinghani …

Tracking strategy in an entrepreneurial firm

H Mintzberg, JA Waters - Academy of management journal, 1982 - journals.aom.org
This study tracks the strategies of a retail chain over 60 years of its history to show how that
vague concept called strategy can be operationalized and to draw conclusions about …

The origins of firm strategy: Learning by economic experimentation and strategic pivots in the early automobile industry

SD Pillai, B Goldfarb, DA Kirsch - Strategic Management …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary We explore the effectiveness of economic experimentation as a
learning mechanism through a historical exploration of the early automobile industry. We …

Firm growth, adaptive capability, and entrepreneurial orientation

Y Eshima, BS Anderson - Strategic management journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary: This paper posits adaptive capability as a mechanism through which a
firm's prior growth influences the exhibition of future entrepreneurial action. Defined as the …

Strategy as strategic decision making

KM Eisenhardt - MIT Sloan Management Review, 1999 - search.proquest.com
Research on entrepreneurial and diversified businesses demonstrates that successful firms
in competitive markets have fast, high-quality, and widely supported strategic decision …

Strategic experimentation: Understanding change and performance in new ventures

CL Nicholls-Nixon, AC Cooper, CY Woo - Journal of business venturing, 2000 - Elsevier
This research was motivated by an interest in understanding more about the extent to which
entrepreneurs initiate changes along various dimensions of strategy, the nature of those …

[PDF][PDF] How entrepreneurs craft strategies that work

A Bhide - Harvard Business Review, 1994 - researchgate.net
However popular it may be in the corporate world, a comprehensive analytical approach to
planning doesn't suit most start-ups. Entrepreneurs typically lack the time and money to …

A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision‐making: Large‐scale replication and extension

A Camuffo, A Gambardella… - Strategic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary This article runs a large‐scale replication of Camuffo and
colleagues in 2020, involving 759 firms in four randomized control trials. The larger sample …