Saras Sarasvathy Explained

Saras D. Sarasvathy (born 1959) is an American entrepreneurship professor and recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.[1] [2]   She is currently the Paul M. Hammaker Professor in Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and the Jamuna Raghavan Chair Professor in Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.[3]   She serves on the editorial boards or as associate editor of several academic journals as well as serving as an outside director to the public company LendingTree.[4]   She is best known for her conception of Effectuation, a theory of Entrepreneurial action based on the study of Expert Entrepreneurs.[5]   Her award-winning journal article - "Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency" is one of the most highly cited academic articles about entrepreneurship of all time.[6]

Early life, Entrepreneurial Career, and Education

Sarasvathy grew up in Mumbai and received her B.Com. in statistics at the University of Bombay before embarking on a career of entrepreneurship. From 1980 to 1991 she founded or co-founded 5 different businesses on three different continents that included a restaurant and a manufacturing company.[7]   Her 5th business was destroyed by a flood leaving Sarasvathy without a company but motivated to more rigorously understand her chosen field of Entrepreneurship.

In 1992 Sarasvathy was accepted to Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration, graduating in 1994. In 1994 she was accepted into the PhD program for information systems at Carnegie Mellon University where her research was supervised by Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon, considered a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence.  While at CMU Sarasvathy began her study of Entrepreneurship by writing her dissertation about the differences between how bankers and entrepreneurs view and manage risk, which resulted in her first article co-Authored with Herbert Simon.[8]

Academic Career and the Introduction of Effectuation

Sarasvathy's study of expert entrepreneurs and their thinking process began while she was at CMU and would continue through the rest of her career. She was an assistant professor at University of Washington from 1998 to 2002 and then was an assistant professor at University of Maryland from 2002 to 2004. In 2004 Sarasvathy joined the faculty at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business as an associate professor. She is now the Paul Hammaker Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Through her publications and research, Sarasvathy is known for her creation of Effectuation, a logic of Entrepreneurial Action, based on her studies of Expert Entrepreneurs.[9] Named for its contrast to causal thinking, a tenet of managerial decision making, Effectual thinking or Effectuation is means-driven and eschews predictive thinking common in large companies.[10] [11]   Together the five principles of Effectuation place an emphasis on taking action over planning.[12] In 2011 Professor Sarasvathy and Effectuation were the subject of the cover article of Inc. Magazine and her article “What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?" was discovered by leading Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla who called it “The first good paper I’ve seen”.[13] [14]

Sarasvathy has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, The Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, and the Journal of Business Venturing. She has also authored 8 books and over 36 book chapters.[15]

In 2020 Effectuation was the subject of a special issue of the Small Business Economic Journal.[16]

In 2022 Sarasvathy received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, considered the top award for academic scholarship in Entrepreneurship[17] and was also invited to give the 5th Herbert Simon Society lecture.[18]

Selected Honors and awards

Selected Books & Journal Articles

Books

Sarasvathy, S. D.  2021.  2nd Edition. Effectuation:  Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise. Edward Elgar, New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series.

Sarasvathy, S. D., Venkataraman, S., and Dew, N.  2020 Shaping Entrepreneurship Research:  Made, as well as found.  Oxford, UK: Routledge.

Read, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., Dew, N., and Wiltbank, R. 2016. 2nd Edition. Effectual Entrepreneurship 2nd Edition. Oxford, UK: Routledge

Read, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., Dew, N., Wiltbank, R. and Ohlsson, A.V. 2011. Effectual Entrepreneurship. Oxford, UK: Routledge (Translated into Portuguese, Dutch, French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.  Won the gold medal in 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards)[25]

Sarasvathy, S. D.  2008.  Effectuation:  Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise. Edward Elgar, New Horizons in Entrepreneurship Series. (Nominated for the 2009 Terry Book Award, Academy of Management and translated into Chinese, Japanese and Russian)

Most Cited Journal Articles

  1. Sarasvathy, S. D. (2001). Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevitability to entrepreneurial contingency. Academy of management Review, 26(2), 243–263.
  2. Dew, N., Read, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., & Wiltbank, R. (2009). Effectual versus predictive logics in entrepreneurial decision-making: Differences between experts and novices. Journal of business venturing, 24(4), 287–309.
  3. Wiltbank, R., Dew, N., Read, S., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2006). What to do next? The case for non-predictive strategy. Strategic management journal, 27(10), 981–998.
  4. Sarasvathy, S. D., & Dew, N. (2005). New market creation through transformation.Journal of evolutionary economics, 15, 533–565.
  5. Read, S., Dew, N., Sarasvathy, S. D., Song, M., & Wiltbank, R. (2009). Marketing Under Uncertainty: The Logic of an Effectual Approach. Journal of marketing, 73(3), 1–18.

Source: Retrieved from Scopus[26]

Recently Published Journal Articles

  1. Sarasvathy, S., & Botha, H. (2022). Bringing People to the Table in New Ventures: An Effectual Approach. Negotiation Journal, 38(1), 11–34.
  2. Sarasvathy, S. D. (2021). The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45(5), 1054–1082.
  3. Mauer, R., Nieschke, S., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2021). Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals. Journal of Small Business Management, 1-36.
  4. Sarasvathy, S. D. (2022). An Effectual Analysis of Markets and States. Questioning the Entrepreneurial State, 37.
  5. Chowdhury, R., Sarasvathy, S. D., & Freeman, R. E. (2022). Toward a Theory of Marginalized Stakeholder-Centric Entrepreneurship. Business Ethics Quarterly, 1-34.

Source: Retrieved from Scopus

References

  1. Foss . Nicolai J. . Andersson . Martin . Henrekson . Magnus . Jack . Sarah . Stenkula . Mikael . Thorburn . Karin . Zander . Ivo . 2023-03-28 . Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research . Small Business Economics . 61 . 1–10 . en . 10.1007/s11187-023-00746-6 . 257812458 . 1573-0913. free .
  2. Web site: 2022 Saras D. Sarasvathy – Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research . 2023-04-07 . en-US.
  3. Web site: Saras D. Sarasvathy . 2023-04-07 . UVA Darden School of Business . en.
  4. Web site: MarketScreener . LendingTree, Inc. Appoints Saras Sarasvathy as an Independent Member of the Board of Directors MarketScreener . 2023-04-07 . www.marketscreener.com . en.
  5. News: Buchanan . Leigh . February 1, 2011 . How Great Entrepreneurs Think . 54–61 . . April 7, 2023.
  6. Sarasvathy . Saras D. . April 2001 . Causation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingency . The Academy of Management Review . 26 . 2 . 243–263 . 10.2307/259121. 259121 .
  7. Web site: Silberzahn . Philippe . 2022-06-09 . Why the award received by Saras Sarasvathy is important . 2023-04-07 . Philippe Silberzahn . en-US.
  8. Sarasvathy . D. K. . Simon . Herbert A. . Lave . Lester. Lester Lave . 1998-01-01 . Perceiving and managing business risks: differences between entrepreneurs and bankers . Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization . en . 33 . 2 . 207–225 . 10.1016/S0167-2681(97)00092-9 . 0167-2681.
  9. Web site: Sastry . Prathibha . 2020-01-16 . Prof Saras D. Sarasvathy Talks About Effectuation in Entrepreneurship . 2023-04-07 . Entrepreneur . en.
  10. Deutsch . Waverly . November 26, 2016 . Corporate Leaders: Watch How Entrepreneurs Think . Chicago Booth Review.
  11. News: Taylor . Bill . 2009-05-04 . MBAs vs. Entrepreneurs: Who Has the Right Stuff for Tough Times? . Harvard Business Review . 2023-04-07 . 0017-8012.
  12. Web site: Schlesinger . Len . February 10, 2012 . Just Start! - Bloomberg . 2023-04-07 . Bloomberg Business.
  13. Web site: 2014-01-21 . Effectuation – The best theory of entrepreneurship you actually follow, whether you've heard of it or not . 2023-04-07 . Necrophone . en.
  14. Web site: What Makes Entrepreneurs Entreprenerial? . April 7, 2023 . Khosla Ventures.
  15. Web site: Saras Sarasvathy CV . April 7, 2023 . Darden.Virginia.Edu.
  16. March 2020 . Special Issue: Effectuation and entrepreneurship theory: How effectuation relates to other concepts, models, and theories within entrepreneurship . . 54 . 3.
  17. Henrekson . Magnus . Lundström . Anders . 2009-01-01 . The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research . Small Business Economics . en . 32 . 1 . 1–14 . 10.1007/s11187-008-9141-y . 10265169 . 1573-0913. free .
  18. Web site: November 21, 2022 . 5TH HERBERT SIMON HONORARY LECTURE . herbertsimonsociety.org.
  19. Web site: 2022 Saras D. Sarasvathy – Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research . 2023-04-07 . en-US.
  20. Web site: February 15, 2022 . Entrepreneurship researcher is 2022s honorary doctor . April 7, 2023 . Mirage news . en-AU.
  21. Web site: 2019-10-01 . UVA Darden Effectuation Pioneer Receives Global Legacy Impact Award . 2023-04-07 . Darden Report Online . en-US.
  22. Web site: Foundational Paper Award - Entrepreneurship Division . 2023-04-07 . ent.aom.org . en.
  23. Web site: Business Case Studies & Business Publications - Darden Business Publishing. Saras Sarasvathy Honored with Jubilee Professorship . 2023-04-07 . store.darden.virginia.edu.
  24. College . Babson . Entrepreneurial Leaders Named 2013 Babson Honorary Degree Candidates and Commencement Speakers . 2023-04-07 . www.prnewswire.com . en.
  25. Web site: 2012 Medalists . 2023-04-07 . axiomawards.com.
  26. Web site: Scopus preview - Sarasvathy, Saras D. - Author details - Scopus . 2023-04-07 . www.scopus.com.

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