Looking Before Leaping: The Effect of Owner Decisiveness on Small Business Performance

John Leaptrott (Emeritus), J. Michael McDonald

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Abstract

<p> This study assesses the relationship between an owner's decisiveness characteristics and the performance of his or her business in a sample of small business owners who started new childcare ventures. Decisiveness was found to be positively related to performance. However, this result was contrary to expectations of a negative relationship based the presumption that decisiveness would be negatively related to a normative model of logic-based decision-making that includes appropriate amounts of information gathering and analysis.</p><p> <a href="https://www.abacademies.org/Public/Proceedings/Proceedings22/AE%20Proceedings.pdf" target="_blank"> Conference Proceedings </a></p>
Original languageAmerican English
JournalProceedings of the Academy of Entrepreneurship
Volume14
StatePublished - Jan 1 2008

Disciplines

  • Business Administration, Management, and Operations

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