Strategies, Uncertainty and Performance of Small Business Startups

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental uncertainty. This is done using a longitudinal data set of some 50 Dutch startups. The results suggest a dynamic process between strategy and performance.A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and opportunistic). The role of uncertainty is discussed. The dynamic process is embedded in the PERSUADE model

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	Gelderen, Marco van ; Frese, Michael ; Thurik, Adriaan R.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Unternehmensgründung \| Business start-up \| Strategisches Management \| Strategic management \| Theorie \| Theory \| KMU \| SME \| Niederlande \| Netherlands

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (27 p)
Series:	ERIM Report Series Reference ; No. ERS-2000-18-STR
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	L20 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior. General ; M13 - Entrepreneurship
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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