Entrepreneurial inception The role of imprinting in entrepreneurial action / Mathias,
By: Mathias, Blake D
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ArticlePublisher: 2015Description: 11 - 28Subject(s): Content Analysis | Entrepreneurial Decision Making | Imprinting | Entrepreneurship
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Journal of Business VenturingSummary: Recent research highlights that founders' early decisions and the environmental conditions at founding each imprint upon a new venture in ways that affect growth and survival. However, we know much less about how the entrepreneur is imprinted and how the outcome of this imprinting process influences the entrepreneur and the venture. Through semi-structured interviews and content analysis, our study examines entrepreneurs' formative experiences during sensitive periods of transition,whichwe refer to as sources of imprint.Weillustrate howthese sources of imprint impact entrepreneurial decision making and explain how they guide entrepreneurs' decisions as they progress through their entrepreneurial careers. In doing so, we improve our understanding of how entrepreneurs navigate the entrepreneurial process.
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Ahmedabad (HO) | (Browse shelf) | Vol. 30, Issue. 1 | Available | 018940 |
Recent research highlights that founders' early decisions and the environmental conditions at founding each imprint upon a new venture in ways that affect growth and survival. However, we know much less about how the entrepreneur is imprinted and how the outcome of this imprinting process influences the entrepreneur and the venture. Through semi-structured interviews and content analysis, our study examines entrepreneurs' formative experiences during sensitive periods of transition,whichwe refer to as sources of imprint.Weillustrate howthese sources of imprint impact entrepreneurial decision making and explain how they guide entrepreneurs' decisions as they progress through their entrepreneurial careers. In doing so, we improve our understanding of how entrepreneurs navigate the entrepreneurial process.
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