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 …

Go or no go: Learning to persuade in an early-stage student entrepreneurship program

C Spinuzzi, D Altounian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background: Early-stage accelerator programs teach new entrepreneurs how to identify and
exploit venture opportunities. In doing so, they implicitly teach these new entrepreneurs how …

Planning the unknown: the simultaneity of predictive and non-predictive entrepreneurial strategies

J Kraaijenbrink, T Ratinho… - … Conference, BCERC 2012, 2012 - research.utwente.nl
Two distinct approaches have emerged to categorize entrepreneurial strategies. While some
argue that planning is beneficial for entrepreneurs, a growing body of literature argues that …

Academic entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial advisors and their advisees' outcomes

MP Roche - Organization Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
The transfer of complex knowledge and skills is difficult, often requiring intensive interaction
and extensive periods of coworking between a mentor and mentee, which is particularly true …

Demand pull versus resource push training approaches to entrepreneurship: A field experiment

S Santamaria, N Abolfathi… - Strategic Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Research Summary We compare the efficacy of two broad approaches to
entrepreneurship training: a training prioritizing demand‐side activities versus a training …

[PDF][PDF] Advancing our understanding of theory in entrepreneurship

SA Alvarez, D Audretsch, AN Link - Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2016 - glassyad.ir
The article by Kuechle, Boulu-Reshef, and Carr (2016, this issue),'Prediction-and control-
based strategies in entrepreneurship: the role of information'suggests that prediction and …

Look who is talking… and who is listening: Finding an integrative “we” voice in entrepreneurial scholarship

D Dimov, R Schaefer, J Pistrui - … Theory and Practice, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper explores the relationship between the study of entrepreneurs and the
entrepreneurs we study. While scholars typically adopt a detached, third-person stance for …

A scientific approach to entrepreneurial decision making: Evidence from a randomized control trial

A Camuffo, A Cordova, A Gambardella… - Management …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
A classical approach to collecting and elaborating information to make entrepreneurial
decisions combines search heuristics, such as trial and error, effectuation, and confirmatory …

The context of entrepreneurial judgment: organizations, markets, and institutions

NJ Foss, PG Klein, C Bjørnskov - Journal of Management …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The economics and management literatures pay increasing attention to the technological,
competitive, and institutional environment for entrepreneurship. However, less is known …

Failing to learn from failure: How optimism impedes entrepreneurial innovation

MD Amore, O Garofalo… - Organization …, 2021 - pubsonline.informs.org
Extant research shows that entrepreneurs are typically overly optimistic about their ventures'
prospects and that such optimism hampers performance. We analyze how dispositional …