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Overview

Saras D. Sarasvathy is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a focus on several subfields including Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scholar's work covers a variety of topics, notably Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Corporate Finance and Governance, Family Business Performance and Succession, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Management and Organizational Studies.

Recent publications by Sarasvathy include:

  • "Toward a Theory of Marginalized Stakeholder-Centric Entrepreneurship" (2023) published in Business Ethics Quarterly
  • "Even-If: Sufficient, Yet Unnecessary Conditions for Worldmaking" (2021) in Organization Theory
  • "Lean Hypotheses and Effectual Commitments: An Integrative Framework Delineating the Methods of Science and Entrepreneurship" (2024) in Journal of Management
  • "The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship" (2021) in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
  • "Ask for it: A practice based theory of venturing design" (2021) in Journal of Business Venturing Design

Key publication venues where Sarasvathy frequently contributes are:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
  • Journal of Management

Sarasvathy has authored books published by Edward Elgar Publishing and Cambridge University Press. Notable titles include Effectuation, published in 2022 by Edward Elgar Publishing and again in 2024 by Cambridge University Press.

The scholar maintains research collaborations with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Tiago Ratinho
  • William B. Gartner
  • Shaker A. Zahra
  • Yong Li
  • Rajshree Agarwal

Best Publications

  • Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency

    Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise

    Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Effectual versus predictive logics in entrepreneurial decision-making: Differences between experts and novices

    Nicholas Dew;Stuart Read;Saras D. Sarasvathy;Robert Wiltbank

  • WHAT TO DO NEXT? THE CASE FOR NON-PREDICTIVE STRATEGY

    Robert Wiltbank;Nicholas Dew;Stuart Read;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • New market creation through transformation

    Saras D. Sarasvathy;Nicholas Dew

  • Entrepreneurship as Method: Open Questions for an Entrepreneurial Future:

    Saras D. Sarasvathy;Sankaran Venkataraman

  • Three Views of Entrepreneurial Opportunity

    Saras D. Sarasvathy;Nicholas Dew;S. Ramakrishna Velamuri;Sankaran Venkataraman

  • Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency

    Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Marketing Under Uncertainty:The Logic of an Effectual Approach

    Stuart Read;Nicholas Dew;Saras D. Sarasvathy;Michael Song

  • Prediction and control under uncertainty: Outcomes in angel investing

    Robert Wiltbank;Stuart Read;Nicholas Dew;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Beyond hubris: How highly confident entrepreneurs rebound to venture again☆

    Mathew L.A. Hayward;Mathew L.A. Hayward;William R. Forster;Saras D. Sarasvathy;Barbara L. Fredrickson

  • Entrepreneurship as a science of the artificial

    Saras D Sarasvathy

  • Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Whither the Promise? Moving Forward with Entrepreneurship As a Science of the Artificial

    Sankaran Venkataraman;Saras D. Sarasvathy;Nicholas Dew;William R. Forster

  • Knowing What to Do and Doing What You Know: Effectuation as a Form of Entrepreneurial Expertise

    Stuart Read;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • The questions we ask and the questions we care about: reformulating some problems in entrepreneurship research

    Saras D Sarasvathy

  • An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges, and Provocative Possibilities

    Saras Sarasvathy;K. Kumar;Jeffrey G. York;Suresh Bhagavatula

  • The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories

    Desirée F. Pacheco;Jeffrey G. York;Thomas J. Dean;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Making It Happen: Beyond Theories of the Firm to Theories of Firm Design

    Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Uncertainty, Knowledge Problems, and Entrepreneurial Action

    David M. Townsend;Richard A. Hunt;Jeffery S. McMullen;Saras D. Sarasvathy

  • Designing Organizations that Design Environments: Lessons from Entrepreneurial Expertise

    Saras D. Sarasvathy;Nicholas Dew;Stuart Read;Robert Wiltbank

  • Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio

    Saras D. Sarasvathy;Anil R. Menon;Graciela Kuechle

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristian Fog Nielsen
Kristian Fog Nielsen Technical University of Denmark
Barbara L. Fredrickson
Barbara L. Fredrickson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
R. Edward Freeman
R. Edward Freeman University of Virginia
Jeffery S. McMullen
Jeffery S. McMullen Indiana University
Cipriano Forza
Cipriano Forza University of Padua
G. T. Lumpkin
G. T. Lumpkin University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jonathan P. Doh
Jonathan P. Doh Villanova University
Michael J. Lenox
Michael J. Lenox University of Virginia
Gideon D. Markman
Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University

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