... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Entrepreneurial motivation Necessity-driven entrepreneurship Opportunity-driven entrepreneurship Causation Effectuation Entrepreneurs, in the process of launching and developing their businesses, continuously make decisions...

...Ekaterina Kozachenko Purpose Amidst global economic uncertainties, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are confronted with the pressing need to adapt to complex and ambiguous external landscapes. This study aims to investigate how the decision-making strategies of causation and effectuation...

... the importance of EO for firm performance. However, it has not yet been explored at a firm-level the approaches of causation and effectuation through the prism of leader traits such as leader dominance and self-efficacy as administrative ability and EO as strategic manoeuvring with strategic decisions obliged...

... entrepreneurial teams, team mental models’ congruence is related to obtained outcomes. The paper proposes that principles of effectuation and causation can serve as the lens through which the mental model pertaining to running a venture can be analysed. It allows expanding studies on the congruence of team mental...

...Emiel L. Eijdenberg; Leonard J. Paas; Enno Masurel Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effect of decision-making, in terms of the effectuation and causation orientation of small business owners, on the growth of their small businesses in an uncertain environment: Burundi. Design...