Synergizing causation and effectuation for innovation in Chinese new ventures
基于资源编排理论，研究因果逻辑与效果逻辑的协同作用如何提升新创企业创新，发现创始团队的跨界行为起中介作用，团队信任正向调节该中介关系。
Innovation often involves high uncertainty, making it difficult for a single entrepreneurial decision-making logic to navigate effectively. Grounded in resource orchestration theory, we advance the discussion on entrepreneurial decision-making logics by examining the interplay between causation and effectuation, and their interactive impacts on innovation within new ventures. Using a multi-wave survey of 404 founding team members from 91 new ventures, we find that new venture innovation is enhanced by the synergy of causation and effectuation. Furthermore, the boundary-spanning behavior of founding teams mediates the relationship between the synergy and new venture innovation, and founding team trust positively moderates this mediated relationship. These insights contribute to understanding the entrepreneurial decision-making logics and strategic behaviors of founding teams as they pursue innovation.