Entrepreneurs-as-Scientists and entrepreneurial team formation strategies: A randomized control trial experiment

This paper investigates whether a causal, theory-driven decision framework, such as the Entrepreneurs-as-Scientists ( E -a-S) framework, influences how entrepreneurs reconfigure their entrepreneurial teams. We conducted a randomized controlled trial on 132 early-stage startups that participated in a pre-incubation program. During the pre-incubation program, we randomly assigned the early-stage startups to either a treatment group, which learned how to apply the E -a-S framework to make decisions