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Revisiting the influence of institutional forces on the written business plan: a replication study

verfasst von: Christian Hopp, Francis J. Greene, Benson Honig, Tomas Karlsson, Mikael Samuelsson

Erschienen in: Management Review Quarterly | Ausgabe 4/2018

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The present paper re-analyzes and extends a study on institutional forces and the written business plan (Honig and Karlsson in J Manag 30(1):29–48, 2004). We attempt to examine to what extent critical decision making is evident in model and variable choice, and whether the implications provided by systematic replication efforts may serve to provide additional and perhaps unrecognized theoretical and/or empirical observations. We find that the key result—formal business planning does not affect performance, does not hold. In fact, we find evidence that formal business planning affects survival but not profitability. The re-analysis also reveals, that institutional antecedents to formal planning appear to be fragile and prone to researcher biases due to different coding and assumptions. Our study underscores the consequences of access to original data and coding material, and to rely upon current methodological explanations for subsequent analyses.

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We contrast all variable coding for the original study (text statements from the article indicating variable coding) and the exact questions used for the replication study in the Appendix.

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Titel: Revisiting the influence of institutional forces on the written business plan: a replication study
verfasst von: Christian Hopp
Francis J. Greene
Benson Honig
Tomas Karlsson
Mikael Samuelsson
Publikationsdatum: 26.06.2018
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erschienen in: Management Review Quarterly / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 2198-1620
Elektronische ISSN: 2198-1639
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11301-018-0143-9

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