Entrepreneurs, Strategy, Venturing Process and Industry Environment: A Configurational Approach to New Venture Emergence

Ye, Qian

doi:10.5539/ibr.v10n3p148

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“…e statistical tool used for the analysis has been R, with the use of the QCA package that applies the advanced Quine-McCluskey algorithm [230]. Although the origins of the QCA method is not a new one [231,232], only recently the research has shown an increasing interest in its use [233][234][235][236] especially for the evaluation of particular qualitative elements in a company or to understand better the necessary conditions to achieve specific business objectives [231,[237][238][239][240][241][242][243][244][245].…”

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An Analysis of the Long‐Term Sustainability of the Large Companies Included in the Original Standard and Poor’s 500 Index

Moya

Torres

Uche-Soria

2022

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The changes generated by the natural economic and social development have configured a scenario where the companies’ survival is gradually decreasing. This process is also impacting on the big corporations that were strongly consolidated for many years. This research has analysed that which of these major companies of the Fortune 500 Index have adapted themselves over the years and have survived. After locating the surviving companies, this paper studied the presence of elements of business quality in each of these firms. Then, using a fuzzy set methodology, this study obtained results that identified some of the main elements that might be considered as inductors of the business durability in the case of the big corporations: the effectiveness of the companies, the coherence with the mission, and the capacity of organisation are essential for the long-term sustainability of the companies especially if they are associated with a formalised structure of governance. The results also conclude that the simple presence of these elements is not enough for the permanence of the companies and only the progresses and improvements in these variables can guarantee the sustainability of the companies.

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An Analysis of the Long‐Term Sustainability of the Large Companies Included in the Original Standard and Poor’s 500 Index

Moya

Torres

Uche-Soria

2022

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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“…The study identified various necessity-driven entrepreneurship (NDE) and opportunity-driven entrepreneurship (ODE) and proposed a role model for policymakers to secure a high proportion of ODE in a particular economy. Finally, Ye (2017) applied QCA as a viable method for new venture emergence, stating that a simple contingency approach is not sufficient in entrepreneurship research, as venture creation faces multiple contingencies such as the entrepreneur, the opportunity, the context, the process and the outcome, with significant inter-dependence among these contingencies. The study contributed to both theory building and methodology by applying the QCA method to the TPB in the context of entrepreneurship, considering the configurational view that goes beyond the conventional correlational view.…”

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Uncovering Determinants of Entrepreneurial Behaviour in a Transitioning Economy: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Al-Silefanee,

Bosma

2024

The Journal of Entrepreneurship

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The purpose of this research article is to explore the determinants of entrepreneurial behaviour among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The study uses a novel approach of fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to depart from traditional assumptions that causal mechanisms apply equally to all individuals within a group. The study examines how shared characteristics may influence entrepreneurial behaviour. The study contributes to the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) literature by identifying different configurations of factors that lead to entrepreneurial behaviour. The study finds that these configurations vary depending on the student’s gender, personal valuation of entrepreneurship, self-evaluation, and perceived support from their environment. These findings suggest that the context in which students are situated plays a crucial role in shaping their entrepreneurial behaviour, highlighting the importance of considering within-sample variations when studying entrepreneurial intentions. This research article uses a novel approach, fsQCA, to explore the factors that influence entrepreneurial behaviour. It departs from traditional assumptions that the same causal mechanisms apply to all individuals within a group, and instead examines how shared characteristics may influence entrepreneurial behaviour.

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“…Entrepreneurial process duration can vary among individuals because of their characteristics and context (Ye, 2017) as individuals with greater general and specific human capital are relatively better placed to benefit from both opportunity discovery and opportunity creation (Ucbasaran, Westhead and Wright, 2008). In process-based studies, the focus on human capital contribution has largely remained limited due to concentrating on start-up activities (milestones) rather than entrepreneurial process outcomes (McMullen and Dimov, 2013) that include ventures being created or process exited.…”

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Founder's Human Capital and the Entrepreneurial Process Duration

Shahid¹

2023

Preprint

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This thesis presents three quantitative empirical studies, utilising two US cohorts from the harmonised Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED), to advance our understanding of the relationship between nascent entrepreneurs’ human capital and duration to different entrepreneurial outcomes. Each chapter provides a distinct perspective across three dimensions: (1) human capital, age and sector impact duration to a profitable outcome, (2) the association of human capital and age with the founder’s exit; and finally, (3) human capital impact on the duration to a profitable outcome with a different spatial scope of sales. Following the introductory chapter, in chapter 2, the human capital perspective is used to investigate how the level of human capital and the founder’s age influence the likelihood of profitable venture creation in a shorter duration. This chapter extends research in nascent entrepreneurship that hitherto has largely overlooked the duration perspective to an entrepreneurial process outcome. This chapter stresses that hi-tech start-up particularly benefits from the nascent entrepreneur’s higher educational attainment in terms of shorter duration until the profitable outcome, and find that age has a non-linear relationship with the speed of the profitable venture outcome. Chapter 3 examines how a founder’s human capital factors and age influence the likelihood of a founder’s exit, and duration to an exit, from the entrepreneurial process. This chapter also extends its focus to human capital interactions to establish which combinations are more likely to reduce an earlier prospect of a founder’s disengagement from the entrepreneurial process. The chapter, also adds to the literature on how founders, with higher human capital, learn quickly and make intelligent choices to disengage without incurring heavy personal and societal costs. A non-linear relationship is found between the founder’s age and the duration to disengagement. Finally, chapter 4, seeks to understand how a founder’s human capital affects the profitable outcome, and the duration to such an outcome, at the different spatial scopes of sales. This paper takes a new approach and adds to the international entrepreneurship literature by clarifying how the founder’s human capital factors impact rapid (born global) and incremental (international new ventures) spatial scope strategies differently. Among the general human capital, a university degree is valuable across all types of spatial scopes of sales in terms of profitable venture creation in a shorter duration. However, start-up experience (specific human capital) only tends to be vital for international scope in terms of the shorter duration to create a profitable new venture. Altogether, the thesis advances our understanding of the important role of the founder’s human capital dimensions in nascent entrepreneurship, in the duration either to a profitable venture creation or to exit, which is underdeveloped in the existing literature. The thesis paves the way for future, both theoretical and empirical research, into nascent entrepreneurship process duration by analysing the direct effects of various aspects of social capital.

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Entrepreneurs, Strategy, Venturing Process and Industry Environment: A Configurational Approach to New Venture Emergence

Cited by 5 publications

References 42 publications

An Analysis of the Long‐Term Sustainability of the Large Companies Included in the Original Standard and Poor’s 500 Index

An Analysis of the Long‐Term Sustainability of the Large Companies Included in the Original Standard and Poor’s 500 Index

Uncovering Determinants of Entrepreneurial Behaviour in a Transitioning Economy: A Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Founder's Human Capital and the Entrepreneurial Process Duration

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