Past career in future thinking: How career management practices shape entrepreneurial decision-making

Y. Engel, J.C. van Burg, E. Kleijn, S.N. Khapova

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Abstract

This study builds a grounded model of how careers shape entrepreneurs’ preference for causal and effectual decision logics when starting new ventures. Using both verbal protocol analysis and interviews, we adopt a qualitative research approach to induct career management practices germane to entrepreneurial decision making. Based on our empirical findings, we develop a model conceptualizing how configurations of career management practices, reflecting different emphases on career planning and career investment, are linked to entrepreneurial decision making through the imprint that they leave on one’s view of the future, generating a tendency toward predictive and/or creative control. These findings extend effectuation theorizing by reformulating one of its most pervasive assumptions and showing how careers produce distinct pathways to entrepreneurial thinking, even prior to entrepreneurial entry.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)122-144
Number of pages23
JournalStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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