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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 1992

What Happened before the Organization? A Model of Organization Formation

Kevin E. Learned1,2

1 Boise State University · 2 Texas Tech University

Abstract

This paper attempts to explain the observations that not all Individuals have the potential to found organizations, and that of those who do, not all try or succeed. Three dimensions to organization formation are proposed: propensity to found, intention to found, and sense making. These three dimensions lead to a decision to found the venture, or to abandon the attempt. Several propositions are derived from the model.

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10.1177/104225879201700105
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