Why do some people start business and others do not? Is entrepreneurship a natural quality or can it be taught? Do entrepreneurs think differently from others? While there is a great deal of literature exploring the dynamics of new firm creation, policies to promote innovation and technology transfer, and the psychology of creativity, research on entrepreneurial mindset or cognition is relatively new, and draws largely from such related fields as organizational behavior, cognitive and social psychology, career development, and consumer research. Over the past fifteen years, the initial model, the theory of reasoned action (TRA), and its successor, known as the theory of planned behavior (TPB), have successfully been applied to entrepreneurship. However, recent findings suggest that considerably more research is required to understand the role of intentions in the entrepreneurial decision process. In this volume, editors Carsrud and Brännback have assembled the most prominent researchers in entrepreneurial psychology to showcase state-of-the-art insights on its many dimensions. Covering such topics as perceptions, motivations, risk, passion, and opportunity recognition, and featuring both quantitative empirical studies and qualitative case examples, Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind challenges conventional approaches to entrepreneurial behavior and establishes a research agenda for the future.
Author(s): Evan Douglas (auth.), Alan L. Carsrud, Malin Brännback (eds.)
Series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship 24
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 375
Tags: Entrepreneurship
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Perceptions – Looking at the World Through Entrepreneurial Lenses....Pages 3-22
Toward A Contextual Model of Entrepreneurial Intentions....Pages 23-33
An “Informed” Intent Model: Incorporating Human Capital, Social Capital, and Gender Variables into the Theoretical Model of Entrepreneurial Intentions....Pages 35-50
Entrepreneurial Intentions are Dead: Long Live Entrepreneurial Intentions....Pages 51-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Cognitive Maps in Entrepreneurship: Researching Sense Making and Action....Pages 75-96
Entrepreneurial Scripts and Entrepreneurial Expertise: The Information Processing Perspective....Pages 97-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Motivations: The Entrepreneurial Mind and Behavior....Pages 141-165
The Role of Emotions and Cognitions in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making....Pages 167-190
Collective Passion in Entrepreneurial Teams....Pages 191-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Why? Attributions About and by Entrepreneurs....Pages 219-232
Self-Efficacy: Conditioning the Entrepreneurial Mindset....Pages 233-257
Perceptions of Efficacy, Control, and Risk: A Theory of Mixed Control....Pages 259-281
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: Thinking Under Uncertainty....Pages 285-304
Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?....Pages 305-325
Entrepreneurial Behavior: Its Nature, Scope, Recent Research, and Agenda for Future Research....Pages 327-358
Back Matter....Pages 359-375
