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Making It Happen: Beyond Theories of the Firm to Theories of Firm Design
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Current theories of the firm provide no explanation for entrepreneurial success except in terms of firm success. Even when the focus is on the entrepreneur, s/he is entirely cast as a bundle of traits/behaviors or heuristics/biases that serves to explain firm performance. In this article, I suggest putting the entrepreneur center stage, adopting an instrumental view of the firm. Drawing upon the work of Simon in symbolic cognition and Lakoff in semantic cognition, I explore how we can go beyond explanations based on economic forces and evolutionary adaptation to entrepreneurial effectuation; I end with specific research questions pertaining to firm design.
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- Authors
- Sarasvathy, S. D.
- Venue
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2004-11
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 519-531
- ISSN
- 1042-2587 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-6520
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- W1984872539
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- 12.50
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- Language
- en
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- green
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