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jbv-theory-development

Use when building the theoretical argument for a Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) manuscript — constructing a multidisciplinary mechanism (economics, psychology, sociology) for an entrepreneurial phenomenon, and choosing between hypothesis-testing and narrative/interpretive theorizing. Builds the argument; it does not pick the question (jbv-topic-selection) or run the analysis (jbv-data-analysis).

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# Theory Development (jbv-theory-development)

## When to trigger

- Your "hypotheses" are descriptive ("A relates to B in startups") with no entrepreneurial mechanism
- You need to choose the disciplinary engine — agency/real-options (economics), cognition/affect (psychology), networks/legitimacy (sociology)
- A handling editor or reviewer says the theory "could be about any organization, not entrepreneurship"
- You are deciding whether to write a deductive model or a narrative/interpretive theory

## JBV's theory bar

JBV elevates **"theories, narratives, and interpretations"** of the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of entrepreneurship. Two legitimate paths:

- **Hypothetico-deductive**: derive testable hypotheses from an explicit mechanism. The mechanism must be *about the entrepreneurial phenomenon* — opportunity, judgment under Knightian uncertainty, resource assembly under resource constraints, legitimacy of the new and unknown (liability of newness), founder identity, etc. — not a generic organizational process.