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Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Effectuation: An Examination of Team Formation Processes

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Entrepreneurial behaviour is central to the understanding of new venture emergence. Yet, despite recent advances in theorizing acknowledging that entrepreneurship is a contextualized non-linear iterative process, the understanding of entrepreneurial behaviour is still excessively focused on more traditional activities of building a business. In this chapter, we redefine entrepreneurship behaviour in light of effectuation—an emergent theory of entrepreneurship—and apply this novel perspective to entrepreneurial team formation process. Our conceptual model for entrepreneurial team formation is non-linear and iterative and has attainable actionable outcomes as the building blocks of team formation. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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    While not very common in management studies, thought experiments have been used in natural and social science and are a powerful tool to understand theoretical concepts (Gendler 2000). The most famous example is that of Schrodinger’s cat, a paradox created to illustrate quantum interpretation of random subatomic events.

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  1. IÉSEG School of Management (LEM-CNRS), Paris, France

    Cyrine Ben-Hafaïedh & Tiago Ratinho

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Ben-Hafaïedh, C., Ratinho, T. (2019). Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Effectuation: An Examination of Team Formation Processes. In: McAdam, M., Cunningham, J.A. (eds) Entrepreneurial Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_5

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