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Causation and effectuation processes: A validation study

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In this paper, the authors developed and validated measures of causation and effectuation approaches to new venture creation and test their measures with two samples of entrepreneurs in young firms and found that effectuation is a formative, multidimensional construct with three associated sub-dimensions (experimentation, affordable loss, and flexibility) and one dimension shared with the pre-commitments.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 682 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Effectuation & Causation.

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The ramifications of effectuation on biases in entrepreneurship – Evidence from a mixed-method approach

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the effect of effectuation on the biases of overconfidence and illusion of control in entrepreneurship and test the effect in both a field survey with entrepreneurs and an experiment.

Social Entrepreneurship: Effectuation and Bricolage Approaches to Venture Establishment in west Africa

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how social entrepreneurs overcome resource constraints in an uncertain environment through effectuation and bricolage and the influence of such entrepreneurial actions on the social ventures.
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Elaborating the Role of Network Synergy Capacity as a Supplier's Alternative Terminal for Achieving Marketing Performance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a model of network synergy capacity in order to fill the research gap between trust-developing capability and marketing performance, which included competitive position strengthening and excellent service commitment to improve marketing performance.
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Beyond personal control: When and how executives’ beliefs in negotiable fate foster entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance

TL;DR: The authors found that executives endorse negotiable fate beliefs to enhance firm-level entrepreneurial orientation and positively predict firm innovation and financial performance, and further expect these mediation effects to be stronger under dynamic environments.
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Gender and Entrepreneurship: a comparative study between the Causation and Effectuation approaches

TL;DR: In this article, a survey was conducted with individual micro entrepreneurs (MEI) in the city of Nova Cruz/RN to verify whether there is an association between gender and the approaches Causation based on causality and Effectuation based on contingencies.
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