Matthias Tietz
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Surviving to Long-Term Thriving Through Augmented Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness:An Extension to Jeffrey McMullen’s “Real Growth Through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian”

2023 , Clark R. Daniel , Matthias Tietz

Artificial intelligence and abiotic growth mechanisms such as 3-D printing, crystalline growth, and nano reproduction are resources that are increasingly available to entrepreneurs. These resources can fundamentally define the entrepreneurial resourcefulness model play allowing the entrepreneur to significantly reduce the entropy of their own efforts and become much more efficient. Expanding on the McMullen (2022) model, we argue that these resources can, through repeated iterations, allow the entrepreneur to retain additional value from their labour for their own benefits. This value that will compound through iterations; facilitating, even in a closed system, wealth creation such that the entrepreneur is no longer struggling to survive, but potentially working to thrive.

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Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't

2022-03-23 , Fu, Yingzhu , Tietz, Matthias , Delmar, Frederic

We investigate how potential co-founders' perceptions of a founder's obsessive passion (OP) influence the decision to join a venture team. Using a conjoint experiment with a primary sample of 116 founder-entrepreneurs and validating it with an additional sample of 59 founder entrepreneurs, we found that potential co-founders were more likely to join if they perceived that the founder had OP for developing ventures. Potential co-founders were less likely to join if they perceived OP for founding ventures. Further, we found significant interactions between perceived OPs, as well as interactions between perceived OP and potential co-founders' own OP.

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Getting your hopes up but not seeing them through? Experiences as determinants of income expectations and persistence during the venturing process

2021 , Tietz, Matthias , Lejarraga, Jose , Pindard-Lejarraga, Maud

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Charitable donations by the self-employed

2014 , Tietz, Matthias , Parker, Simon

This article analyzes an important aspect of the social behavior of the self-employed in America. We ask whether the self-employed express their social responsibility to society by giving more to charity than the general population, and if so which charitable causes they give to. We use social identity theory to generate hypotheses about the determinants and objectives of charitable giving among members of this socially and economically important group. Testing these hypotheses with nationally representative, longitudinal US data, we find that the American self-employed are indeed more likely to exhibit social responsibility toward their community by giving to charities than the general population. While the self-employed support broadly similar charities to the general population, they give substantially more to organizations which: address issues in the local community; provide health care; and serve the needy.

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Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs

2022-09-08 , Campagnolo, Diego , Laffineur, Catherine , Leonelli, Simona , Martiarena, Aloña , Tietz, Matthias , Wishart, Maria

Purpose Against the theoretical backdrop of the embeddedness and the resilience literatures, this paper investigates if and how SMEs' planning for adversity affects firms' performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops hypotheses that investigate the link between the risk management of immigrant-led and native-led SMEs and their performance and draw on novel data from a survey on 900 immigrant- and 2,416 native-led SMEs in 5 European cities to test them. Findings Immigrant-led SMEs are less likely to implement an adversity plan, especially when they are in an enclave sector. However, adversity planning is important to enhance the growth of immigrant-led businesses, even outside a crisis period, and it reduces the performance gap vis-à-vis native-led businesses. Inversely, the positive association between adversity planning and growth in the sample of native entrepreneurs is mainly driven by entrepreneurs who have experienced a severe crisis in the past. Originality/value This paper empirically uses planning for adversity as an anticipation stage of organizational resilience and tests it in the context of immigrant and native-led SMEs. Results support the theoretical reasoning that regularly scanning for threats and seeking information beyond the local community equips immigrant-led SMEs with a broader structural network which translates into new organizational capabilities. Furthermore, results contribute to the process-based view of resilience demonstrating that regularly planning for adversity builds a firm's resilience potential, though the effect is contingent on the nationality of the leaders.

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Entrepreneurship and subjective vs objective institutional performance: A decade of US hospital data

2022-10-31 , Shelby Meek , Matthias Tietz

Regional entrepreneurial activity can importantly affect the performance of local public service institutions. Yet, the literature explaining these relationships suffers from five methodological challenges: 1) inferred direction of influence; 2) unavailability of representative data; 3) blurring of objective and subjective performance; 4) a lack of longitudinal data; 5) and a lack of fine-grained regional data. This paper relies on a rich dataset from the ubiquitous institution of hospitals to explore these effects and overcome these challenges. We discriminate between objective and subjective institutional performance, suggesting that both performance categories deserve empirical attention, and may react differently to entrepreneurship. Our empirical approach applies econometric, mixed-effects regression models to a novel longitudinal dataset representing the entire hospital population in over 3000 U.S. counties between 2006 and 2018 merged with two sources of entrepreneurial activity at the county level. Interestingly, the results suggest divergent relationships: regional entrepreneurial activity positively affects objective institutional performance and also negatively affects subjective performance. Further, an institution's research designation attenuates the effect on subjective performance. These findings suggest that institutional performance is an often-overlooked byproduct of regional entrepreneurial activity and offer significant theoretical and policy implications.

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When do investors prefer copycats? Conditions influencing the evaluation of innovative and imitative ventures

2019 , Fu, Yingzhu , Tietz, Matthias

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Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics

2022-06-30 , Clark, Daniel , Tietz, Matthias , Kumar, Maya

We propose and test a process where potential entrepreneurs (PEs) prioritize a venture idea consideration set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics to assess idea feasibility and desirability. We test our hypotheses through two studies with PEs. The first experiment shows that prioritization occurs, with 113 of 122 PEs voluntarily changing a randomized list of their ideated ventures into a rank-ordered priority list of potential opportunities. Second, we employ a novel “equivocal forced-choice” conjoint design with 250 PEs. We find empirical support that PEs prioritize via relative preferences for experience-based knowledge, strong social ties, and low risk/low reward venture ideas. We contribute to the entrepreneurship literature by theorizing and providing evidence of a prioritization stage for multiple idea sets before evaluation. Further, we demonstrate the influence of individual and social network factors on prioritization and expand our understanding of how PEs conceptualize risk in venturing.

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The Malleability of International Entrepreneurial Cognitions: A Natural Quasi-Experimental Study on Voluntary and Involuntary Shocks

2021-12-01 , Clark, Daniel R. , Pidduck, Robert J. , Tietz, Matthias A.

Purpose - We investigate the durability of international entrepreneurial cognitions. Specifically, we examine how advanced business education and the Covid-19 pandemic influence international entrepreneurial orientation disposition (IEOD) and subsequently entrepreneurial intentions, to better understand the psychological dynamics underpinning the drivers of international entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach - Against the backdrop of emerging entrepreneurial cognition and international entrepreneurial orientation research, we theorize that both a planned business education intervention (voluntary) and an unforeseeable radical environmental (involuntary) change constitute cognitive shocks impacting the disposition and intention to engage in entrepreneurial efforts. We use pre and post Covid-19 panel data (n = 233) and uniquely identify the idiosyncratic cognitive effects of Covid-19 through changes in the OCEAN personality assessment. Findings - Findings demonstrate that when perceived psychological impact of Covid-19 is low, business education increases IEOD. Conversely, the effects of a strongly perceived Covid-19 impact reduce the risk-taking and proactiveness components of the IEOD scale. We trace the same effects forward to entrepreneurial intentions. Originality - We uniquely employ a baseline measure of all our constructs pre-Covid-19 to discern and isolate the pandemic impact on entrepreneurial dispositions and intentions, responding to recent calls for more experimental designs in entrepreneurship research. Research limitations/implications - This paper contributes to a greater understanding of the resilience of entrepreneurial dispositions through an empirical test of the IEOD scale and shows its boundary conditions under planned intervention as well as unplanned externally induced shock. Practical implications - We offer a first benchmark to practitioners of the malleability of international entrepreneurial dispositions and discuss the potential to encourage international entrepreneurial behaviour and the individual-level dispositional risk posed by exogenous shocks.

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Springy Fields: An Entrepreneur's Dilemma

2015-02 , Breward, Michael , Breward, Katherine , Tietz, Matthias

Entrepreneur Tom Wilson has a dilemma: he must decide how to expand Springy Fields, his adult sport and recreation business. After the economic aftermath of 9/11 cost Tom his structural engineering job, he decided to turn his side business of running a spring and summer Ultimate Frisbee league into his full-time job. Over time, Tom's league grew substantially and he expanded into beach volleyball, soccer, flag football, and dodge ball. The Internet helped Tom remove the biggest expansion roadblock: the time required to complete administrative and customer-service tasks. Without the Internet, Tom doubted he could have achieved a fraction of the success he enjoyed between 2002 and 2010. Heading into the 2010 season, Tom realized he had plateaued and needed a new growth strategy. Each of the numerous options for expansion had its own unique set of financial risks and lifestyle implications. The case examines the myriad issues associated with developing a growth strategy that meets Tom's financial and lifestyle goals.

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