New venture creation and the development of entrepreneurial cognition: A longitudinal analysis of startup diaries

Gabi Anja Kaffka; Raja Singaram; Jeroen Kraaijenbrink

doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2020.37

New venture creation and the development of entrepreneurial cognition: A longitudinal analysis of startup diaries

Gabi Anja Kaffka^*, Raja Singaram, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink

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Utrecht Center for Research and Development of Health Professions Education

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Entrepreneurs engage in sensemaking activities continuously during new venture creation. We followed 30 entrepreneurs who were starting their ventures at an incubator-accelerator setting. These founders wrote weekly diaries over a period of one year reflecting on their experience. We studied specific instances in these diary entries where the entrepreneurs reported sensebreaking - the creation of a meaning void - and subsequent sensemaking through their interaction with different stakeholders within and outside the incubator. We describe novel sensemaking that follows sensebreaking via three different mechanisms namely, reframing, redirecting and questioning. We discuss the contribution of sensebreaking to the development of entrepreneurial cognition.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.37
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 7 Aug 2020 → 11 Aug 2020

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2020. Paper presented at 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020: Understanding the Inclusive Organization, AoM 2020, Virtual, Online.

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