Decision Comprehensiveness and Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Moderating Role of Managerial Uncertainty Preferences and Environmental Dynamism

Although comprehensiveness is considered among the most salient and enduring strategic decision‐making characteristics in organizations, its influence on firm behaviour has remained elusive. As a first step, our study builds and tests a model that specifies the influence of comprehensiveness on the...

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Published in:Journal of management studies Vol. 46; no. 8; pp. 1289 - 1314
Main Authors: Heavey, Ciaran, Simsek, Zeki, Roche, Frank, Kelly, Aidan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2009
Wiley Blackwell
Series:Journal of Management Studies
Subjects:
Argumentation
Business studies
Chief executive officers
Chief executives
Debates
Decision makers
Decision making
Entrepreneurship
Executives (Business)
Ignorance
Management science
Organizational culture
Preferences
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Small and medium sized enterprises
Strategic management
Studies
Uncertainty
ISSN:0022-2380, 1467-6486
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Summary:Although comprehensiveness is considered among the most salient and enduring strategic decision‐making characteristics in organizations, its influence on firm behaviour has remained elusive. As a first step, our study builds and tests a model that specifies the influence of comprehensiveness on the firm's pursuit of corporate entrepreneurship. Our core argument is that while comprehensiveness helps decision‐makers gain the knowledge needed to escape the ignorance and overcome doubt associated with this pursuit, this beneficial influence is conditional upon managerial uncertainty preferences, together with the level of dynamism in the external environment. Findings from a large sample study of CEOs from 349 SMEs provide general support for this argument and associated hypotheses.
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ISSN:0022-2380
1467-6486
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00858.x