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The influence of cultural tightness-looseness and innovativeness on effectuation and causation-based new venture creation decisions: a moderated mediation model
Nijland, K. (2019) The influence of cultural tightness-looseness and innovativeness on effectuation and causation-based new venture creation decisions: a moderated mediation model.
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| Abstract: | This study has built on existing literature by examining the influence of cultural tightness and innovativeness on both effectuation and causation-based new venture creation decisions in a moderated mediation model. To examine this, we conducted research on novice entrepreneurs in the United States of America. Using data collected from 109 novice entrepreneurs, we found significantly higher use of causation than effectuation. Our results indicated that both cultural tightness and innovativeness positively and significantly affect the use of causation while they do not have an influence on effectuation. Moreover, cultural tightness fully mediates the effect of innovativeness on causation while innovativeness partially mediates the effect of cultural tightness on causation. These findings add to the diversity of effectuation literature by empirically testing the antecedent variables cultural tightness and innovativeness while the findings also add evidence to the development of a reliable and valid measurement scale for effectuation and causation. Overall, the results of the study indicate that it seems impossible to describe the whole complexity of the effectuation and causation-based new venture creation decision based on innovativeness and cultural tightness-looseness and that one should be careful with generalizing these results. Therefore, we call for cross-country research on the use of effectuation and causation-based decision and the antecedent variables innovativeness and cultural tightness, and a continued hunt for unmeasured antecedent variables of effectuation and causation in order to develop it into an actual theory. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | Business Administration MSc (60644) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/77259 |
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