At ETP, exhibits carry two loads: the empirical (do the numbers support the claim?) and the theoretical (can a reader see the mechanism?). The journal's strong-theory identity means a conceptual/mechanism figure is expected in most papers — a diagram of the hypothesized chain (antecedents → entrepreneurial mechanism → outcomes, with moderators/mediators) — and for inductive work a Gioia data structure is essentially mandatory. Format to APA: descriptive titles, defined abbreviations, notes that make the table self-contained.
| Paper type | Expected core exhibits |
|---|---|
| Deductive quantitative | Theoretical model figure; descriptives + correlations; main regression table; interaction/moderation plots |
| Survival / event-history | Theoretical figure; Kaplan–Meier curves; hazard table with hazard ratios + CIs |
| SEM | Theoretical model figure; measurement model (loadings, AVE, CR); structural model with standardized paths |
| Inductive / qualitative | Gioia data structure; process model figure; quotation table linked to informants |
| Mixed methods | Data structure (qual phase) + regression/SEM (quant phase) + an integrating figure |
A clean theoretical model figure does triple duty: it states the hypotheses visually, signals the entrepreneurial mechanism (so a reviewer cannot mistake it for a generic-org model), and gives the reader a map for the results. Label the constructs with your entrepreneurial names (e.g., "affordable-loss reasoning," "socioemotional wealth"), not generic placeholders, and make moderators/mediators visually distinct.
The Gioia data structure is the trust contract for inductive ETP work: it shows the inductive chain from informant terms to theoretical dimensions. Pair it with a process-model figure (the dynamic "movie" of the static data structure) and a quotation table that ties evidence to dimensions and informants. Thin or absent data structures are a fast credibility loss.
Generate exhibits from the fitted result, not by retyping numbers (the usual source of
body-vs-appendix drift). Full map: execution-with-mcp. ETP is entrepreneurship, where selection and survival bias are pervasive — foreground identification and selection corrections.
etable (multi-model columns) or did_summary_to_latex straight from the
result_id.plot_from_result / enhanced_event_study_plot / event_study_table —
axis units and the SE/clustering note baked in.See a full fitted-result → exhibit chain in the JF execution walkthrough.
A quantitative effectuation paper submits four dense regression tables, asterisks marking significance, and no figure. An ETP-ready exhibit suite reorganizes this. Add a theoretical model figure first: boxes labeled with the entrepreneurial constructs (affordable-loss reasoning → venture survival), market uncertainty drawn as a moderator on the path — so a reviewer immediately sees the mechanism is effectual, not generic risk-taking. Collapse the four tables into one descriptives-plus-correlations table (means, SDs, reliabilities on the diagonal) and one main results table that leads with hazard ratios and confidence intervals, with asterisks demoted to a footnote per APA. Replace the buried interaction term with a simple-slopes plot: two survival curves, high vs. low uncertainty, making the contingency legible at a glance. The result is fewer exhibits doing more work, each self-contained, and the mechanism visible to a reviewer in the first figure rather than reconstructed from a coefficient table.
【Journal】Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
【Mechanism figure】present? entrepreneurial labels? Y/N
【Core exhibit suite】list matched to paper type
【Results table】leads with magnitude (effect size + CI)? Y/N
【Moderation】shown as simple-slopes plot? Y/N
【Qual exhibits】Gioia data structure + process model? (if applicable)
【APA + self-contained】titles/notes/abbrevs defined? Y/N
【Next skill】etp-writing-style