To succeed in growing and scaling their organization, start-ups must establish roles, routines, rules, and plans that coordinate organizational activities. However, early-stage start-ups often lack such coordination mechanisms. Through a longitudinal qualitative multiple-case study of five start-ups, we develop an emergent theoretical framework for how start-ups develop and improve coordination over time. We find that start-ups establish coordination through a learning sequence consisting of four distinct learning styles. To develop coordination successfully, start-ups anticipate coordination problems before they escalate, steal ideas and frameworks from others, experimentally implement coordination, and combine and simplify coordination mechanisms. By providing a processual understanding of how start-ups develop coordination, we contribute to the literature on coordination in start-ups, which has tended towards static explanations. We also add to the literatures on emergent coordination and organizational learning, as we highlight the role of deliberate learning in developing coordination, and how different learning styles link together to create learning sequences.

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构建初创企业：协调如何通过学习排序出现在初创企业中

为了成功地发展和扩大他们的组织，初创企业必须建立协调组织活动的角色、例程、规则和计划。然而，早期的初创企业往往缺乏这样的协调机制。通过对五家初创企业的纵向定性多案例研究，我们开发了一个新兴的理论框架，以了解初创企业如何随着时间的推移发展和改善协调。我们发现初创企业通过由四种不同学习风格组成的学习序列来建立协调。为了成功地发展协调，初创企业在协调问题升级之前预见到协调问题，从他人那里窃取想法和框架，实验性地实施协调，并结合和简化协调机制。通过提供对初创企业如何发展协调的过程性理解，我们为初创企业协调的文献做出了贡献，这些文献倾向于静态解释。我们还增加了关于紧急协调和组织学习的文献，因为我们强调了刻意学习在发展协调中的作用，以及不同的学习方式如何联系在一起创造学习序列。