Opportunity evaluation and changing beliefs during the nascent entrepreneurial process
研究了新生创业者在创业过程中持续评估机会时信念的变化，发现规划活动会降低环境不确定性感知，但提升自我效能感和绩效预期。
This article explores an important but less understood part of the nascent entrepreneurial process, the changes that occur to beliefs associated with continuing evaluation of the opportunity and related learning. Using samples from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, we demonstrate that engaging in planning activities by nascent entrepreneurs as they proceed through the process is associated with a decrease in perceptions of environmental uncertainty but an increase in perceived individual self-efficacy and business performance expectations. Overall, our evidence is consistent with a dynamic view of the nascent stage of the entrepreneurial process characterized by ongoing significant changes in beliefs.