STRUCTURING THE START-UP: HOW COORDINATION EMERGES IN START-UPS THROUGH LEARNING SEQUENCING

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Jones, Marius; Schou, Peter Kalum
• 署名单位: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); BI Norwegian Business School
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2021.0149
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 859-893
• 关键词: ENTREPRENEURIAL; ORGANIZATIONS; IMPROVISATION; success; FUTURE; teams; work

摘要

To succeed in growing and scaling their organization, start-ups must establish roles, routines, rules, and plans that coordinate organizational activities. However, early-stage start-ups often lack such coordination mechanisms. Through a longitudinal qualitative multiple-case study of five start-ups, we develop a theoretical framework for how startups develop and improve coordination over time. We find that start-ups establish coordination through a learning sequence consisting of four distinct learning styles. To develop coordination successfully, start-ups anticipate coordination problems before they escalate, steal ideas and frameworks from others, experimentally implement coordination, and combine and simplify coordination mechanisms. By providing a processual understanding of how start-ups develop coordination, we contribute to the literature on coordination in start-ups, which has tended toward static explanations. We also add to the literatures on emergent coordination and organizational learning, as we highlight the role of deliberate learning in developing coordination, and how different learning styles link together to create learning sequences.