The scale-up process and the nascent board’s modus operandi: The role of attention and self-efficacy

Processus de scale-up et fonctionnement du CA naissant: Le rôle de l’attention et de l’autoefficacité

Joëlle Bédat () and Peter Wirtz
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Joëlle Bédat: Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon, UNIFR - Université de Fribourg = University of Fribourg, MAGELLAN - Laboratoire de Recherche Magellan - UJML - Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 - Université de Lyon - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Lyon

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Abstract: This article presents the results of a processual case study examining a young scale-up's board of directors, focusing on board members' attention and self-efficacy. The results help us to better understand why the board's mode of operation sometimes leans towards discipline and sometimes towards cognition (or both), independently of the venture's life cycle. The study reveals that the intensity of treatment of cognitive vs. disciplinary issues is highly, but not exclusively, dependent on the entry of new investors and hence changes from stage to stage. The results confirm Knockaert et al.'s (2015) intuition of the importance of attention and self-efficacy bias. Unlike the findings of those authors, however, it appears that the primary objects of attention and self-efficacy change over time and as the result of the multiple directors' complex actions. This leads to dynamic changes in the board's operations over time.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial governance; attention; self-efficacy; scale-up; Entrepreneurial governance attention self-efficacy scale-up (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-04-01
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Published in Finance Contrôle Stratégie, 2023, 26 (1)

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