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

Hopp, Christian; Greene, Francis J.; Honig, Benson; Karlsson, Tomas; Samuelsson, Mikael (2018). Revisiting the influence of institutional forces on the written business plan: a replication study Management Review Quarterly, 68(4), pp. 361-398. Springer 10.1007/s11301-018-0143-9

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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.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

Business School > Business Foundations and Methods

Name:

Hopp, Christian0000-0002-4095-092X;
Greene, Francis J.;
Honig, Benson;
Karlsson, Tomas and
Samuelsson, Mikael

ISSN:

2198-1620

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Christian Hopp

Date Deposited:

16 Sep 2020 14:37

Last Modified:

16 Aug 2023 11:20

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s11301-018-0143-9

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Replication study·Business planning·PSED II·Research ethics

ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.11987

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/11987

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