A mixed approach for studying effectual entrepreneurial opportunities: development and application to Tunisian context

Ghorbel, Faiez; Hachicha, Wafik; Boujelbène, Younés

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2017.6.002

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“…Sarasvathy [2] argued that the causation model starts with goals. In the effectuation context, entrepreneurs start with the available means and try to imagine the possible actions [3]. Causal problems are the problems of a decision; effectual problems are the problems of a design [1].…”

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Linking Entrepreneurial Innovation to Effectual Logic

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The terms “innovation” and “effectuation” are frequently used but not in the same thought. In this order, publications linking innovation to effectuation are presented and discussed through a methodology based on the publish and perish tool. In the last two decades, effectuation has become an active criterion in entrepreneurship research. However, previous studies do not interconnect effectuation to the different innovation approaches. In order to overcome this gap, this paper focuses on studying innovation in an effectual context and linking different innovation approaches to effectual logic. Indeed, effectuation is a way of thinking that serves entrepreneurs in the processes of opportunity identification and new venture creation. Effectuation includes a set of decision-making principles expert entrepreneurs are observed to employ in situations of uncertainty (as defined in Society for Effectual Action). This article outlines the four most-studied innovation approaches from the date of their apparitions until January 2021: frugal innovation, disruptive innovation, lean start-up, and design thinking. In this context, effectuation as the essence of innovation must be clarified as a method that has similarities and differences with frugal and disruptive innovation, lean start-up, and design thinking. To validate the proposed theorical model, a bibliometrics tool, named “Harzing publish” or “perish”, is used. The main finding of this research affirms that the two most linked innovation approaches to effectuation are “lean start-up” and “design thinking”, compared to “frugal innovation” and “disruptive innovation”. In an entrepreneurial innovation context, design thinking and lean start-up are flexible tools that can stimulate and validate the effectual cycle.

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“…A new entrant creates an innovative product that initially is only in the interest of a niche market. According to classical criteria, this product is inferior to available products [3]. In the beginning, customers rejected it, but after any rapid attempts of amelioration, customers adopt it.…”

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“…The fact that entrepreneurs play such roles as innovators, agents of change in the market, and competition creators indicates that entrepreneurship contributes to economic performance of a country. Experts in management emphasize the important role of entrepreneurs as economic growth drivers: "entrepreneurship is driving force behind economic growth" (Dean & McMullen, 2007;Ghorbel et al, 2017).…”

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Building knowledge-creation for making business competition atmosphere in SMEs of Batik

Hamdani¹

2018

10.5267/j.msl

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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) of Batik play strategic roles such as a substance, a mover, and a buffer of the nation's economy and supporting the national economic growth sustainably. However, these SMEs have not been able to compete in both national and international levels. This is caused by the low rate of knowledge-creation. In line with this, this study aims to reveal how the knowledge-creation can create the competition atmosphere of the SMEs with the support from technology and entrepreneurship orientation. Additionally, the methodology employed in this study was explanatory survey design, with 286 Batik business units as sample. More specifically, the sampling technique to select the target area was non-probability in form of purposive sampling. The data were then analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Further, the result of this study reveals that knowledge-creation influences on creating the business competition atmosphere with the support of the technology and entrepreneurship and orientation. Based on the research finding, SMEs Batik finds it difficult to organize the collection of Explicit Knowledge into a more systematic media, due to the lack of media infrastructure to keep the knowledge. In addition, technology adoption is not necessary for handmade batik by considering that handmade batik relies on personal skill.

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