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Ghorbel, F., Hachicha, W & Boujelbène, Y. (2017). A mixed approach for studying effectual entrepreneurial opportunities: development and application to Tunisian context.Management Science Letters , 7(9), 439-456.
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Jack, S. L. (2005). The role, use and activation of strong and weak network ties: A qualitative analy-sis. Journal of management studies, 42(6), 1233-1259.
Jack, S. L., & Anderson, A. R. (2002). The effects of embeddedness on the entrepreneurial pro-cess. Journal of business Venturing, 17(5), 467-487.
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Lumpkin, G. T., & Lichtenstein, B. B. (2005). The role of organizational learning in the opportunity‐recognition process. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 29(4), 451-472.
Molina-Azorín, J. F., López-Gamero, M. D., Pereira-Moliner, J., & Pertusa-Ortega, E. M. (2012). Mixed methods studies in entrepreneurship research: Applications and contribu-tions. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 24(5-6), 425-456.
Moreau, R. (2000). La réussite entrepreneuriale: une proposition pour un modèle explicatif gé-néral. Gestion, 24(3), 45-62.
Nabli, R. (2008). Les entrepreneurs tunisiens: la difficile émergence d'un nouvel acteur social. Editions L'Harmattan.
Anis, O., & Mohamed, F. (2012). How entrepreneurs identify opportunities and access to external fi-nancing in Tunisian's micro-enterprises?. African Journal of Business Management, 6(12), 4635.
Omri, A., & Frikha, M. (2011). Failure factors in Tunisian micro-enterprises: Introspection through cognitive mapping. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 24(4), 493-512.
Palich, L. E., & Bagby, D. R. (1995). Using cognitive theory to explain entrepreneurial risk-taking: Challenging conventional wisdom. Journal of business venturing, 10(6), 425-438.
Parrilli, M. D. (2009). Collective efficiency, policy inducement and social embeddedness: Drivers for the development of industrial districts. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 21(1), 1-24.
Pittaway, L., Robertson, M., Munir, K., Denyer, D., & Neely, A. (2004). Networking and innovation: a systematic review of the evidence. International journal of management reviews, 5(3‐4), 137-168.
Prieto, A. (1991). Artificial Neural Networks, International Workshop. IWANN '91, Granada, Spain, Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
Read, S., Sarasvathy, S., Dew, N., Wiltbank, R., & Ohlsson, A.V. (2011). Effectual Entrepreneurship. Routeldge, Taylor and Francis, London.
Rosa, P., & Dawson, A. (2006). Gender and the commercialization of university science: academic founders of spinout companies. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 18(4), 341-366.
Sarasvathy, S. D. (2001). Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevi-tability to entrepreneurial contingency. Academy of management Review, 26(2), 243-263.
Sarasvathy, S. D. (2004). Making it happen: Beyond theories of the firm to theories of firm de-sign. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 28(6), 519-531.
Sarasvathy, S. (2008). Effectuation elements of entrepreneurial expertise. New Horizons in Entrepre-neurship Series.
Sarasvathy, S. D., & Venkataraman, S. (2011). Entrepreneurship as method: Open questions for an entrepreneurial future. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 35(1), 113-135.
Shane, S. (2003). A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus. Chelten-ham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of re-search. Academy of Management Review, 25(1), 217-226.
Shane, S., & Khurana, R. (2003). Bringing individuals back in: the effects of career experience on new firm founding. Industrial and Corporate Change, 12(3), 519-543.
Silberzahn, P. (2013). Effectuation : Les principes de l'action entrepreneuriale. Amazon Media, 120 p.
Tolman E.C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55(4), 189-208.
Tsoukalas, L.H and R.E. Uhrig. 1997. Fuzzy and neural approaches in engineering, New York: Wiley.
Wiltbank, R., Read, S., Dew, N., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2009). Prediction and control under uncertain-ty: Outcomes in angel investing. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(2), 116-133.
Yang, T., Tsai, T. N., & Yeh, J. (2005). A neural network-based prediction model for fine pitch sten-cil-printing quality in surface mount assembly. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelli-gence, 18(3), 335-341.
Axelrod, R. (1976). Structure of Decision: the Cognitive Maps of Political Elites, Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press.
Bertolini, P., & Giovannetti, E. (2006). Industrial districts and internationalization: the case of the agri-food industry in Modena, Italy. Entrepreneurship and regional development, 18(4), 279-304.
Bootz, J. P., & Monti, R. (2008). Proposition d'une typologie des démarches de prospective participa-tive pour les entreprises. Trois cas illustratifs: EDF RαD, AXA France et BASF Agro. Management & Avenir, 5, 114-131.
Chandler, G. N., DeTienne, D. R., McKelvie, A., & Mumford, T. V. (2011). Causation and effectua-tion processes: A validation study. Journal of business venturing, 26(3), 375-390.
Cossette, P. (2004). L'organisation: une perspective cognitiviste. Presses Université Laval.
Creswell, J. W., Plano Clark, V. L., Gutmann, M. L., & Hanson, W. E. (2003). Advanced mixed methods research designs. Handbook of mixed methods in social and behavioral research, 209-240.
Dew, N., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2007). Innovations, stakeholders & entrepreneurship. Journal of Busi-ness Ethics, 74(3), 267-283.
Dew, N., Read, S., Sarasvathy, S. D., & Wiltbank, R. (2009). Effectual versus predictive logics in en-trepreneurial decision-making: Differences between experts and novices. Journal of business ven-turing, 24(4), 287-309.
Eden, C. (1992). On the nature of cognitive maps. Journal of management studies, 29(3), 261-265.
Fuellhart, K. G., & Glasmeier, A. K. (2003). Acquisition, assessment and use of business information by small-and medium-sized businesses: a demand perspective. Entrepreneurship & Regional De-velopment, 15(3), 229-252.
Garoui, N and A. Jarboui. (2012). Cognitive approach of corporate governance. A visualization test of mental models with cognitive mapping technique. The Romanian Economic Journal, 43, 61-96.
Gartner, W. B. (1988). Who is an entrepreneur is the wrong question. American Journal of Small Business, 4(12), 11-32.
Faiez, G., & Younes, B. (2012). A cognitive approach for analyzing the influence of effectual net-work on entrepreneurs actions. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Busi-ness, 3(9), 1409-1431.
Ghorbel, F., & Boujelbène, Y. (2013). A comprehensive literature review of effectuation theory from 1999 to 2011. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 5(2), 168-194.
Hachicha, W., & Ghorbel, A. (2012). A survey of control-chart pattern-recognition literature (1991–2010) based on a new conceptual classification scheme. Computers & Industrial Engineer-ing, 63(1), 204-222.
Hansen, D. J., Shrader, R., & Monllor, J. (2011). Defragmenting definitions of entrepreneurial oppor-tunity. Journal of Small Business Management, 49(2), 283-304.
Haykin, S. (1999). Neural Networks, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, NY.
Hernandez, E.M. (2001). L'entrepreneuriat: approche théorique, Editions L'Harmattan.
Jack, S. L. (2005). The role, use and activation of strong and weak network ties: A qualitative analy-sis. Journal of management studies, 42(6), 1233-1259.
Jack, S. L., & Anderson, A. R. (2002). The effects of embeddedness on the entrepreneurial pro-cess. Journal of business Venturing, 17(5), 467-487.
Khiari, S., Khelil, N., Zouaoui, M., & Smida, A. (2011). Représentations que se font les dirigeants de la performance de leur jeune entreprise technologique innovante (JETI). Approche exploratoire basée sur la cartographie cognitive. Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat, 10(3), 33-65.
Kraaijenbrink, J. (2012). Chapter 13 The Nature of the Entrepreneurial Process: Causation, Effectua-tion, and Pragmatism. In New Technology-Based Firms in the New Millennium (pp. 187-199). Em-erald Group Publishing Limited.
Krueger, N. F. (2005). The cognitive psychology of entrepreneurship. Handbook of entrepreneurship research, 105-140.
Lendaris, G.B. (1980). Structural Modeling-A Tutorial Guide”, IEEE-SMC, 10, no.2: 807-840.
Lin, W. B. (2006). A comparative study on the trends of entrepreneurial behaviors of enterprises in different strategies: Application of the social cognition theory. Expert Systems with Applica-tions, 31(2), 207-220.
Lumpkin, G. T., & Lichtenstein, B. B. (2005). The role of organizational learning in the opportunity‐recognition process. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 29(4), 451-472.
Molina-Azorín, J. F., López-Gamero, M. D., Pereira-Moliner, J., & Pertusa-Ortega, E. M. (2012). Mixed methods studies in entrepreneurship research: Applications and contribu-tions. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 24(5-6), 425-456.
Moreau, R. (2000). La réussite entrepreneuriale: une proposition pour un modèle explicatif gé-néral. Gestion, 24(3), 45-62.
Nabli, R. (2008). Les entrepreneurs tunisiens: la difficile émergence d'un nouvel acteur social. Editions L'Harmattan.
Anis, O., & Mohamed, F. (2012). How entrepreneurs identify opportunities and access to external fi-nancing in Tunisian's micro-enterprises?. African Journal of Business Management, 6(12), 4635.
Omri, A., & Frikha, M. (2011). Failure factors in Tunisian micro-enterprises: Introspection through cognitive mapping. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, 24(4), 493-512.
Palich, L. E., & Bagby, D. R. (1995). Using cognitive theory to explain entrepreneurial risk-taking: Challenging conventional wisdom. Journal of business venturing, 10(6), 425-438.
Parrilli, M. D. (2009). Collective efficiency, policy inducement and social embeddedness: Drivers for the development of industrial districts. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 21(1), 1-24.
Pittaway, L., Robertson, M., Munir, K., Denyer, D., & Neely, A. (2004). Networking and innovation: a systematic review of the evidence. International journal of management reviews, 5(3‐4), 137-168.
Prieto, A. (1991). Artificial Neural Networks, International Workshop. IWANN '91, Granada, Spain, Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer.
Read, S., Sarasvathy, S., Dew, N., Wiltbank, R., & Ohlsson, A.V. (2011). Effectual Entrepreneurship. Routeldge, Taylor and Francis, London.
Rosa, P., & Dawson, A. (2006). Gender and the commercialization of university science: academic founders of spinout companies. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 18(4), 341-366.
Sarasvathy, S. D. (2001). Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevi-tability to entrepreneurial contingency. Academy of management Review, 26(2), 243-263.
Sarasvathy, S. D. (2004). Making it happen: Beyond theories of the firm to theories of firm de-sign. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 28(6), 519-531.
Sarasvathy, S. (2008). Effectuation elements of entrepreneurial expertise. New Horizons in Entrepre-neurship Series.
Sarasvathy, S. D., & Venkataraman, S. (2011). Entrepreneurship as method: Open questions for an entrepreneurial future. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 35(1), 113-135.
Shane, S. (2003). A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: The Individual-Opportunity Nexus. Chelten-ham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Shane, S., & Venkataraman, S. (2000). The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of re-search. Academy of Management Review, 25(1), 217-226.
Shane, S., & Khurana, R. (2003). Bringing individuals back in: the effects of career experience on new firm founding. Industrial and Corporate Change, 12(3), 519-543.
Silberzahn, P. (2013). Effectuation : Les principes de l'action entrepreneuriale. Amazon Media, 120 p.
Tolman E.C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55(4), 189-208.
Tsoukalas, L.H and R.E. Uhrig. 1997. Fuzzy and neural approaches in engineering, New York: Wiley.
Wiltbank, R., Read, S., Dew, N., & Sarasvathy, S. D. (2009). Prediction and control under uncertain-ty: Outcomes in angel investing. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(2), 116-133.
Yang, T., Tsai, T. N., & Yeh, J. (2005). A neural network-based prediction model for fine pitch sten-cil-printing quality in surface mount assembly. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelli-gence, 18(3), 335-341.