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A model of coaching co-design for executive teams (ETC) based on a four-year program using diagnostic and dialogic organization development tools focused on fostering change, innovation, and collaboration. The study engaged a leadership team of 34 participants from a fast-paced global software and hardware gaming company. Using extensive proprietary data, the model offers practitioners and academics a guide for co-creating a team coaching design. Co-creating a cooperative learning process uses a framework of interventions for intentionally planning and aligning behaviors and practices to support dynamic capabilities to boost firm success, adaptability, and organizational performance. This model exemplifies conditions that can unleash shared personal and organizational power for practitioners and academics. The research was undertaken in an industry where innovation and execution were necessary skills for survival and growth. This duality of skills is referred to as ambidexterity.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyze the factors affecting startup development and the entrepreneurship ecosystem's contribution to it.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative methodology is used for data collection from different startup owners working across Pakistan. It is a cross-sectional descriptive study, which investigates the causal effect of variables at a definite point in time. Non-probability convenient sampling was used for selecting available startups from the incubation centers. The sampling framework consists of the founders of the startups that have been previously incubated at any of the selected incubation centers.FindingsRegression analysis results from 165 responses of entrepreneurs and incubation centers demonstrate that the most important factors affecting startup development were financial access, government support, marketing challenges, education, technology and managerial skills in order of occurrence. Entrepreneurship ecosystem also proved to have a very positive impact on the relationship of these factors with startup development.Practical implicationsIn this paper, the factors that affect the development of startup are analyzed and recommendations are provided.Originality/valueThis research is comprehensive, as we have collected data from actual entrepreneurs and incubation centers to explain how entrepreneurs initiate their startup business by considering their managerial skills. As such, this study is unique in that the data comes from newly developed incubations centers in one of South Asia's fastest-growing economies.