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The conflict potential of the entrepreneur’s decision-making style in the entrepreneur-investor relationship

Appelhoff, Daniel
; 
Mauer, René
; 
Collewaert, Veroniek
; 
Brettel, Malte
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Publication Year
2016-06
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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
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Publication Volume
12
Publication Issue
2
Publication Begin page
601
Publication End page
623
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While prior research has indicated the importance of conflicts between investors and entrepreneurs, little is known about their causes. We use theory on entrepreneurial decision-making to examine the impact of a founding team’s causal versus effectual decision style on the level of perceived task conflict that founders experience with their venture capitalists. Based on a sample of 141 German ventures, we find that a founding team perceives fewer conflicts when following the causal principle of overcoming the unexpected and the effectual principle of affordable loss.
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3502 Banking, Finance and Investment, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
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Entrepreneurship
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-015-0357-4
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12127/5087
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-015-0357-4
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