Motivation is an important factor that distinguishes those nascent entrepreneurs who make progress towards an operating venture from those who do not. Based on Vroom's (Work and motivation, 1964) expectancy theory, we predict that startup-specific instrumentality, valence and expectancy are key...

Crisis response is generally acknowledged as a crucial aspect of crisis management. Crisis response often requires a need to improvise because the circumstances demand spontaneous innovation that departs from established procedures. Although previous research has acknowledged improvisation as a...

Executive scholarship is a novel and promising avenue for addressing the gap between academic research and practice. To advance the objective of publishing the findings of executive scholarship, we propose the concept of pragmatic rigor. Pragmatic rigor consists of principles and criteria for...

Strict adherence to a stage-gate process for new product development (NPD) has been shown to be correlated with learning failures which lead to new product failure (Sethi and Iqbal, 2008). This along with the time demanded by bureaucratic stage-gate process requirements turned a mid-sized,...

We explore Information and Communication Technology (ICT) support to organizational improvisation during crisis response by completing three studies. The first study confirms diversity in research on improvisation and suggests that author’s perspectives on improvisation diverge with respect to...