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A Psychological Approach to Entrepreneurship
Selected Essays of Dean A. Shepherd
Dean A. Shepherd
Within an entrepreneurial context, what a person thinks and feels and how they behave are hugely consequential. Entrepreneurs often work in scenarios of considerable time pressure, task complexity, uncertainty and high performance variance. This fascinating volume explores the unique psychological qualities of individuals directly involved in the entrepreneurial process.
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- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur
- Chapter 2: The Formation of Opportunity Beliefs: Overcoming Ignorance and Reducing Doubt
- Chapter 3: The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What Is to Be Sustained” With “What Is to Be Developed”
- Chapter 4: Entrepreneurs’ Decisions to Exploit Opportunities
- Chapter 5: When should entrepreneurs expedite or delay opportunity exploitation?
- Chapter 6: Prior Knowledge, Potential Financial Reward, and Opportunity Identification
- Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment
- Chapter 8: Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus
- Chapter 9: To thine own self be true: Images of self, images of opportunity, and entrepreneurial action
- Chapter 10: “I Care About Nature, But..”: Disengaging Values in Assessing Opportunities that Cause Harm
- Chapter 11: Passion for Work, Nonwork-Related Excitement, and Innovation Managers’ Decision to Exploit New Product Opportunities
- Chapter 12: A Hubris Theory of Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 13: Venture Capitalists' Assessment of New Venture Survival
- Chapter 14: Strategic Entrepreneurship at Universities: Academic Entrepreneurs’ Assessment of Policy Programs
- Chapter 15: Multilevel Entrepreneurship Research: Opportunities for Studying Entrepreneurial Decision Making
- Chapter 16: Self-Employment as a Career Choice: Attitudes, Entrepreneurial Intentions, and Utility Maximization
- Chapter 17: A Person-Organization Fit Model of Owner-Managers’ Cognitive Style and Organizational Demands
- Chapter 18: Toward a Theory of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated by Traumatic Life Events
- Chapter 19: Birds of a feather don't always flock together: Identity management in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 20: Cognitive Adaptability and an Entrepreneurial Task: The Role of Metacognitive Ability and Feedback
- Chapter 21: Erratic Strategic Decisions: When and Why Managers are Inconsistent in Strategic Decision Making
- Chapter 22: The fallacy of “only the strong survive”: The effects of extrinsic motivation on the persistence decisions for under-performing firms
- Chapter 23: Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies
- Chapter 24: Moving forward: Balancing the financial and emotional costs of business failure
- Chapter 25: Learning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employed
- Chapter 26: Grief recovery from the loss of a family business: A multi- and meso-level theory
- Chapter 27: Project failure from corporate entrepreneurship: Managing the grief proces
- Chapter 28: Moving Forward from Project Failure: Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from the Experience
- Chapter 29: Negative Emotional Reactions to Project Failure and the Self-Compassion to Learn from the Experience
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Introduction
Dean A. Shepherd
Monograph Chapter
- Published in print:
- 26 Dec 2014
- Category:
- Monograph Chapter
- Pages:
- xi–xvi (6 total)
Collection:
Business 2014
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Entrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneur
- Chapter 2: The Formation of Opportunity Beliefs: Overcoming Ignorance and Reducing Doubt
- Chapter 3: The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What Is to Be Sustained” With “What Is to Be Developed”
- Chapter 4: Entrepreneurs’ Decisions to Exploit Opportunities
- Chapter 5: When should entrepreneurs expedite or delay opportunity exploitation?
- Chapter 6: Prior Knowledge, Potential Financial Reward, and Opportunity Identification
- Chapter 7: Cognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignment
- Chapter 8: Technology-Market Combinations and the Identification of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Investigation of the Opportunity-Individual Nexus
- Chapter 9: To thine own self be true: Images of self, images of opportunity, and entrepreneurial action
- Chapter 10: “I Care About Nature, But..”: Disengaging Values in Assessing Opportunities that Cause Harm
- Chapter 11: Passion for Work, Nonwork-Related Excitement, and Innovation Managers’ Decision to Exploit New Product Opportunities
- Chapter 12: A Hubris Theory of Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 13: Venture Capitalists' Assessment of New Venture Survival
- Chapter 14: Strategic Entrepreneurship at Universities: Academic Entrepreneurs’ Assessment of Policy Programs
- Chapter 15: Multilevel Entrepreneurship Research: Opportunities for Studying Entrepreneurial Decision Making
- Chapter 16: Self-Employment as a Career Choice: Attitudes, Entrepreneurial Intentions, and Utility Maximization
- Chapter 17: A Person-Organization Fit Model of Owner-Managers’ Cognitive Style and Organizational Demands
- Chapter 18: Toward a Theory of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated by Traumatic Life Events
- Chapter 19: Birds of a feather don't always flock together: Identity management in entrepreneurship
- Chapter 20: Cognitive Adaptability and an Entrepreneurial Task: The Role of Metacognitive Ability and Feedback
- Chapter 21: Erratic Strategic Decisions: When and Why Managers are Inconsistent in Strategic Decision Making
- Chapter 22: The fallacy of “only the strong survive”: The effects of extrinsic motivation on the persistence decisions for under-performing firms
- Chapter 23: Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies
- Chapter 24: Moving forward: Balancing the financial and emotional costs of business failure
- Chapter 25: Learning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employed
- Chapter 26: Grief recovery from the loss of a family business: A multi- and meso-level theory
- Chapter 27: Project failure from corporate entrepreneurship: Managing the grief proces
- Chapter 28: Moving Forward from Project Failure: Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from the Experience
- Chapter 29: Negative Emotional Reactions to Project Failure and the Self-Compassion to Learn from the Experience