The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic–Practitioner Divide

Shepherd, Dean A.; Gruber, Marc

doi:10.1177/1042258719899415

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“…Even then, their review was narrowly focused on enterprising individuals and future research on individual judgment. There have been other, more recent reviews focusing on important but narrow topics within the broader domain, for example, the lean start-up methodology (Bortolini, Nogueira, Cortimiglia, Danilevicz, & Ghezzi, 2018; Shepherd & Gruber, 2020). Moreover, while new-venture creation is central to entrepreneurship research, we note that the former is a subset of the latter.…”

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Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Shepherd

Souitaris

Gruber

2020

Journal of Management

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Creating new ventures is one of the most central topics to entrepreneurship and is a critical step from which many theories of management, organizational behavior, and strategic management build. Therefore, this review and proposed research agenda are relevant to not only entrepreneurship scholars but also other management scholars who wish to challenge some of the implicit assumptions of their current streams of research and extend the boundaries of their current theories to earlier in the organization’s life. Given that the last systematic review of the topic was published 16 years ago, and that the topic has evolved rapidly over this time, an overview and research outlook are long overdue. From our review, we inductively generated 10 subtopics: (a) lead founder, (b) founding team, (c) social relationships, (d) cognitions, (e) emergent organizing, (f) new-venture strategy, (g) organizational emergence, (h) new-venture legitimacy, (i) founder exit, and (j) entrepreneurial environment. These subtopics are then organized into three major stages of the entrepreneurial process: co-creating, organizing, and performing. Together, the framework provides a cohesive story of the past and a road map for future research on creating new ventures, focusing on the links connecting these subtopics.

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Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

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2020

Journal of Management

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“…Edmondson & Mcmanus, 2007). Indeed, qualitative research has been important for developing theories on emerging phenomena such as crowdfunding (Short et al, 2017), sector-based entrepreneurship (De Massis et al, 2018), the sharing economy (Li et al, 2019), lean startup (Shepherd & Gruber, 2020), and digital entrepreneurship (Nambisan et al, 2019). Rather than the outdated image of seeing qualitative research as primarily 'exploratory' in nature (Neergaard, 2014), qualitative research is well positioned to make substantive theoretical contributions to understanding entrepreneurship and in ways that go beyond just exploring new phenomena.…”

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Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact

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Cornelissen

Stam

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This editorial aims to advance the use of qualitative research methods when studying entrepreneurship. First, it outlines four characteristics of the domain of entrepreneurship that qualitative research is uniquely placed to address. In studying these characteristics, we urge researchers to leverage the plurality of different qualitative approaches, including less conventional methods. Second, to help researchers develop high-level theoretical contributions, we point to multiple possible contributions, and highlight how such contributions can be developed through qualitative methods. Thus, we aim to broaden the types of contributions and forms that qualitative entrepreneurship research takes, in ways that move beyond prototypical inductive theory-building.

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“…This can be especially critical in the case of early-stage start-ups, which are based on a business model innovation in order to remain competitive within a dynamic environment. Scholars consider the Lean Startup Approach to be a method for the formation and evaluation of the appropriate business model since it allows entrepreneurs to test and refine their business hypotheses by redirecting production systems toward customer value [87,88,112,113]. Digital entrepreneurship also provides new value categories (i.e., functional, social, emotional, epistemic, conditional) and new value opportunities based on stakeholder interaction and new approaches for competing in digital ecosystems [96,106].…”

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Digital Entrepreneurship and its Role in Innovation Systems: A Systematic Literature Review as a Basis for Future Research Avenues for Sustainable Transitions

2020

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Digital entrepreneurship is an essential driver within the innovation system. It changes the structure, aims, and networking mechanisms of the overall business system and, ultimately, affects the various levels and dimensions of the innovation system. Bringing inevitable changes to the innovation system, digital technologies may not only provide new business opportunities but also be disruptive and cause new vulnerabilities. In order to gain a rigorous understanding of the hybrid concept of digital entrepreneurship and its role within the transformation of the innovation system, we conducted a systematic literature review. The results of 52 core papers allow for the identification of key categories of digital entrepreneurship and also its differentiation from other types of business activities. The analysis leads to the distinction of the determinants of digital entrepreneurship within three core dimensions of the innovation system, which encompass the entrepreneur (including, e.g., behavioral, competence. and mentality patterns, as well as personal outcomes and consequences of entrepreneurial activity), the entrepreneurial process (including activities that concern digitalization in organizational management processes, transformations within strategic and operational activities, and digital start-up establishment), and its relevant ecosystem (which encompasses, among others, the influence that external infrastructure and institutions have on digital entrepreneurship development). The systematization of the existing literature is highly relevant for future research that aims to understand the interrelations between the transformation of entrepreneurial structures within innovation systems as well as the socioeconomic system in general. Such understanding requires further extended research in fields related to method, content, and theory.

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The Lean Startup Framework: Closing the Academic–Practitioner Divide

Cited by 215 publications

References 141 publications

Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Creating New Ventures: A Review and Research Agenda

Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact

Digital Entrepreneurship and its Role in Innovation Systems: A Systematic Literature Review as a Basis for Future Research Avenues for Sustainable Transitions

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