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date: 05 March 2021

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This article broadly reviews the history of planning, its successes and failures, existing research on planning, and the theoretical and cultural underpinnings by which planning takes place. It reflects the profound and ubiquitous triumph of the planning paradigm in the twentieth (and now twenty-first) century. It provides material adjudicating the validity of using, or not using, one or another planning technique, and suggests alternative procedures to eliminate possible time-wasting bureaucratic routines, constraints on organizational action, and losses resulting from myopia frequently introduced by the planning process. The objective of this article is to illuminate an area of human activity that, to date, has been largely ignored by scholarly study.

Keywords: entrepreneurial finance, business planning, capital, planning process, planning technique

Benson Honig

Benson Honig (PhD, Stanford University) is the Teresa Cascioli chair in entrepreneurial leadership, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. Studying entrepreneurship worldwide, his research includes business planning, nascent entrepreneurship, transnational entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, social capital, and entrepreneurship in environments of transition. He has published widely and serves on six editorial boards, including JBV and JMS. He is immediate past president of CCSBE (Canadian Counsel of Small Business and Entrepreneurship), is on the board of the Babson Entrepreneurship Conference, and is also an editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

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