Journal of Business Venturing Design最新文献

{"title":"Entrepreneurship and the phenomenology of experiential design: Applying the “Lifeworld” of Merleau-Ponty","authors":"Amir Emami ,&nbsp;Richard A. Hunt","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the intersection of phenomenology, design, and entrepreneurship in order to extend and enhance recent scholarly work that frames business venturing as an expression of experiential and design-oriented practice. Applying Merleau-Ponty's concept of the \"lifeworld\" – where matter, life, and mind are all fully integrated – our approach emphasizes the centrality of embodied cognition in human experience, meaning that the human mind is not structured by specific goals as much as it is structured by body schemas, artifacts, tools, language, culture, and the interplay between spontaneity and repetition. This is particularly true for entrepreneurs, where the integration of lived experiences into the development of novel products and services not only promotes innovation but also redefines entrepreneurial practice as a dynamic, iterative process that fortifies deep connections between entrepreneurs and consumers of their goods and services. By framing entrepreneurship as a design practice informed by Merleau-Ponty's theories, our study illuminates the role of language and the temporality of the lived body in shaping entrepreneurial processes. We demonstrate how embodied engagement leads entrepreneurs to adapt their narratives in response to dynamic market conditions, thereby fostering innovation and strategic development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144535632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Creating and applying the Ecosystem Pie Model as a design theory","authors":"Madis Talmar ,&nbsp;Jan Holmström ,&nbsp;A․ Georges L․ Romme ,&nbsp;Bob Walrave ,&nbsp;Ksenia Podoynitsyna","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100030","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100030","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation ecosystems have become pivotal phenomena in a world of increasing specialization and complexity, in which single ventures cannot develop and commercialize technology-driven value propositions alone. In this setting, various firms and other actors need to work together in creating and building an innovation ecosystem around a shared value proposition. The Ecosystem Pie Model (EPM), published in <em>Long Range Planning</em> in 2020, is the first comprehensive tool for mapping and assessing the risk profile of a prospective innovation ecosystem. We describe, and reflect on, how the so-called design theory underlying the EPM was developed. This design theory includes its key constructs, design principles, visual instantiation, detailed application guidelines, and assessment of how mutable its applications are. The initial design theory was used to develop more than 240 ecosystem constellations to assess its applicability and mutability. We also outline various applications of EPM design theory by others. Overall, this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship and innovation literature by developing a complete design theory, one that covers the entire spectrum from theoretical underpinnings to detailed application guidelines and an initial body of applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100030"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144338857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Circular Systems Sandbox: A process tool for circular systems design and rebound effect reduction","authors":"Henry Willem Müller ,&nbsp;Konstantin Remke","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops and validates a novel design artifact called Circular Systems Sandbox. While there is an abundance of literature on new product development and business model innovation, a notable gap exists in integrating these two domains. More systemic design is deemed indispensable because the mismatched design of products, services, business models and collaborations lead to harmful rebound effects. We employ a mixed methods design science approach involving 31 expert interviews, 11 workshops, and an experimental evaluation with 108 participants. The findings demonstrate that the Circular Systems Sandbox significantly enhances the quality of circular product and business model design, providing a practical and comprehensive framework for entrepreneurs. The study contributes to theory by elucidating the interconnections within Circular Systems Design, offering preventive strategies for rebound effects, and aligning with calls for systemic solutions for the Circular Economy. This paper not only advances Circular Systems Design as a concept but also empirically proves its utility, encouraging future research and application in diverse sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100028"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eureka vs. Heritage: A design science approach to handle conflicting normative settings in internal corporate venturing","authors":"Simon L. Schmidt,&nbsp;Katharina Scheidgen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Internal corporate ventures (ICVs) depend on the human resources of their parent firms, yet we find that conflicts between the normative settings of ICVs and their parent firms can hamper their access to such human resources. To address this real-world problem, we adopt a design science approach. First, we theorize the <em>eureka-heritage conflict</em>, meaning that the ICV's eureka-driven normative setting, which promotes radical innovation and creativity while challenging established ways of doing, conflicts with the parent firm's heritage-driven normative setting, which emphasizes stability and operational efficiency by embracing tradition, hierarchy, established routines, and predictable successes. This eureka-heritage conflict hampers human resource access and manifests differently across various hierarchical levels within the parent firm. Second, we proffer prescriptive knowledge that helps ICVs access human resources despite these conflicts, thereby suggesting not only requirements for practical solutions but also contributing actionable guidance and a resource access framework for handling conflicting normative settings to tackle this challenge in practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100029"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning from design: The potential of entrepreneurial critique","authors":"Ken Anderson,&nbsp;Derek Lidow","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we propose <em>entrepreneurial critique</em> (EC) as a critical missing piece in entrepreneurial methodology. We show how the practice of EC, derived from design critique, conceptually improves short and long-term entrepreneurial impact. We identify the value of EC as its ability to efficiently surface blind spots before they turn into costly failures. Analysis of entrepreneurial process literature and popular commercially or socially focused entrepreneurship instruction sets, show the absence of critiques or critique-like practices, and their failure to examine assumptions, anticipate second-order consequences, and refine problem framing before resources are committed to producing artifacts. We formally define entrepreneurial critique and proposition its impacts and conclude by analyzing cultural barriers to the adoption of critique in entrepreneurial education and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143679941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An integrative literature review of prototyping in management research: Definition and research agenda","authors":"Steffen Paust ,&nbsp;Claus Thrane ,&nbsp;Steffen Korsgaard","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent years have seen the proliferation of approaches in management featuring prototyping as a central component and vehicle to facilitate interaction with stakeholders. Yet, despite the extensive engagement with prototyping, vocabulary and conceptualizations of the phenomenon still vary and research remains fragmented, hampering empirical and conceptual development. In this paper, we address this by exploring the concept of prototyping in management research. Through an integrative literature review, the study contributes with an inductively developed definition of prototyping that stresses the representational nature of prototyping. Based on the definition, we organize the diverse, fragmented, and eclectic body of work into seven distinct themes. We then compare and elaborate these themes and organize them into three aggregate dimensions to offer an initial sketch of how prototyping materializes from cognitive externalization to conative interaction an how these interdependent processes creates various organizational outcomes. Finally, we suggest future avenues for examining the integration of the fragmented themes and for exploring research opportunities between and within the them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143454607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How artifacts shape feedback interactions in new venture ideation","authors":"Thomas Cyron","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2025.100025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurs rely on artifacts—such as verbal accounts, texts, images, presentations, and prototypes—to share their new venture ideas with stakeholders and gather feedback. While artifacts are central to entrepreneurial processes, we know little about how their differences shape feedback interactions and influence the evolution of ideas. This study addresses this gap with a longitudinal multiple-case study of new venture ideation. Drawing on design theory, I propose a typology of entrepreneurial artifacts based on abstraction and aggregation. The findings reveal how distinct artifact types shape feedback interactions, helping entrepreneurs balance exploration with refinement. The study also highlights both the creative opportunities and the potential risks associated with different artifact types, offering actionable insights for managing iterative idea development. These contributions enhance our understanding of materiality in entrepreneurship and provide practical guidance for fostering creativity in dynamic and uncertain contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100025"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143144747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A scientific approach to decision-making: Key tools and design principles","authors":"Andrea Coali ,&nbsp;Elena Novelli ,&nbsp;Anusha Sirigiri ,&nbsp;Chiara Spina","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent empirical studies have shown the positive impact of a scientific approach to decision-making on entrepreneurial performance. Building on this evidence, this article offers a description of the scientific approach that is oriented toward its practical implementation by entrepreneurs. Focusing on the approach's two main pillars – the processes of theory building and evidence gathering – we outline a set of tools developed to facilitate the application of the scientific approach in practical decision-making activities. Ultimately, we derive a set of design principles that researchers can adopt to develop novel tools and methodologies to aid entrepreneurial actions based on the prescriptive aspects of the scientific approach.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100023"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667277424000045/pdfft?md5=a3d0b90db5f223ce6c8c47c6b98d5d6e&pid=1-s2.0-S2667277424000045-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141709595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The power of machine learning methods to predict crowdfunding success: Accounting for complex relationships efficiently","authors":"Ramy Elitzur ,&nbsp;Noam Katz ,&nbsp;Peri Muttath ,&nbsp;David Soberman","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The objective of this paper is to both demonstrate and explain the power of machine learning (ML) methods to predict crowdfunding success. The first step to achieve this objective is to compare the predictive performance of four ML methods (boosted trees, random forest, Shallow Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks) to standard binary logit estimation using a dataset of more than 108,223 Kickstarter projects. The data used for the comparison is a set of categorical and continuous variables for each project that can be analyzed using all 5 modelling methods. The second step to achieve the objective is to show that the presence of complex relationships between the explanatory variables and outcome variable explains the power of ML methods. These relationships can be categorized as threshold-type (when a certain level of a explanatory variable is need for an effect to occur), Goldilocks-type (where a very specific level of an explanatory variable is needed for an effect to occur) and interactions (where the effect of one explanatory variable on the outcome variable is moderated by the levels of other explanatory variables). Our estimations show that these relationships are embedded in the context of crowdfunding. Because crowdfunding is a marketing activity, factors like attention, saturation, and synergy between levers are pervasive. It is because machine learning has the ability to account for these relationships (without knowing where they are in advance) that these methods are both better predictors and better managerial tools than standard binary logit models. We further show that even greater prediction power is unleashed by activating the text-analysis capabilities of ML methods. However, even when this is not possible, the value realized by employing ML approaches to predict crowdfunding success is substantial.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667277424000033/pdfft?md5=4c0db92d39204fa6bbb93b4d3aec2e63&pid=1-s2.0-S2667277424000033-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141542955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making the leap: Negotiating resource acquisition","authors":"Truls Erikson,&nbsp;Daniel Leunbach,&nbsp;Yangyang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbvd.2024.100021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To suspend uncertainty, we can simply just choose to believe. A leap of faith - or the <em>suspension</em> of uncertainty - is the essence of trust, yet it remains a relatively unexplored phenomenon within the entrepreneurship literature. Trust reflects a willingness to bear risks, and as such, it is an underappreciated risk-bearing mechanism. Choosing to trust not only translates into the way entrepreneurs negotiate, but as we will see, also into the negotiated outcome. In the current study, we show that trust relates positively to negotiations, but we find that positional negotiations relate negatively to accomplishments, whereas collaborative negotiations relate positively. We study entrepreneurs who act <em>as if</em> those whom they are negotiating with are trustworthy, and we explore the effects of such leaps of faith on not only collaborative, but also positional negotiations, and their interaction effects. Using abductive reasoning, we unpack three related design principles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100757,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Venturing Design","volume":"3 ","pages":"Article 100021"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667277424000021/pdfft?md5=8c07de83044af4a6d7bc64ca17eca03a&pid=1-s2.0-S2667277424000021-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141043846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}