Past as prologue: Entrepreneurial inaction decisions and subsequent action judgments

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• 作者：Matthew S. Wood^a ; ^{ms_wood@baylor.edu} ; David W. Williams^b ; ^dww@utk.edu ; Will Drover^c ; ^{drover@ou.edu}
• 刊名：Journal of Business Venturing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：1
• 页码：107-127
• 全文大小：721 K
• 卷排序：32

文摘

Investigates effects of entrepreneurial inaction decisions on subsequent opportunity action judgments. Entrepreneurs' mental representations qualified by doubt carryover from initial inaction decisions to subsequent judgments. Two multi-stage experiments demonstrate that inaction decisions negatively affect entrepreneurs' ensuing action likelihood. This effect is mitigated when entrepreneurs perceive subsequent opportunities as dissimilar, rather than similar. Entrepreneurs' history matters; entrepreneurial inaction decisions influence which opportunities entrepreneurs likely pursue.