TY - UNPB

T1 - Planning still matters: exploring the association between venture cognitive logic and performance in different institutional contexts

AU - Shirokova, G.

AU - Laskovaia, A.

AU - Osiyevskyy, O.

N1 - Shirokova, G. Planning still matters: exploring the association between venture cognitive logic and performance in different institutional contexts / G. Shirokova, A. Laskovaia, O. Osiyevskyy. - 2016.

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Strategic management and entrepreneurship literature traditionally pay substantive attention to rational decision-making processes with clear formalized plans and analytical procedures. Despite all the advantageous of planning-based logic, some scholars prefer alternative approaches to making decisions. In entrepreneurship field, the effectuation theory rose to prominence, emphasizing analogical rather than analytical reasoning. While prior effectuation research focused primarily on studying personal characteristics of entrepreneurs, this paper is intended to reach a new level in examining macro-level factors that may influence the efficiency of entrepreneurial cognitive processes. Particularly, we investigate how formal institutions shape the relationship between venture cognitive logic of 4413 student entrepreneurs and performance of their ventures. We demonstrate that this relationship is to a large extent shaped by the characteristics of the country-level institutional environment (particularly, level of

AB - Strategic management and entrepreneurship literature traditionally pay substantive attention to rational decision-making processes with clear formalized plans and analytical procedures. Despite all the advantageous of planning-based logic, some scholars prefer alternative approaches to making decisions. In entrepreneurship field, the effectuation theory rose to prominence, emphasizing analogical rather than analytical reasoning. While prior effectuation research focused primarily on studying personal characteristics of entrepreneurs, this paper is intended to reach a new level in examining macro-level factors that may influence the efficiency of entrepreneurial cognitive processes. Particularly, we investigate how formal institutions shape the relationship between venture cognitive logic of 4413 student entrepreneurs and performance of their ventures. We demonstrate that this relationship is to a large extent shaped by the characteristics of the country-level institutional environment (particularly, level of

KW - effectuation

KW - causation

KW - institutions

KW - GUESSS

KW - ease of doing business

KW - financial market development index

M3 - Working paper

BT - Planning still matters: exploring the association between venture cognitive logic and performance in different institutional contexts

ER -