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Barbara Bird
Researcher at American University
Publications - 29
Citations - 7017
Barbara Bird is an academic researcher from American University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Organization development. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 28 publications receiving 6318 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara Bird include Case Western Reserve University & University of Southern California.
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Implementing Entrepreneurial Ideas: The Case for Intention
TL;DR: Entrepreneurial intentions as discussed by the authors are states of mind that direct attention, experience, and action toward a business concept, set the form and direction of organizations at their inception, and subsequent organizational outcomes such as survival, development (including written plans), growth, and change are based on these intentions.
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The Central Question in Entrepreneurial Cognition Research 2007
Ronald K. Mitchell,Lowell W. Busenitz,Barbara Bird,Connie Marie Gaglio,Jeffery S. McMullen,Eric A. Morse,J. Brock Smith +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take note of advances in the entrepreneurial cognition research stream and bring increasing attention to the usefulness of entrepreneurship cognition research, and propose a central research question to further enable entrepreneurial cognition inquiry.
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Acting as If: Differentiating Entrepreneurial from Organizational Behavior:
TL;DR: In this article, an organizational behavior perspective on entrepreneurship would focus on the process of organizational emergence, and the usefulness of the emergence metaphor is explored through an exploration of two questions that are the focus of much of the research in organizational behavior: what do persons in organizations do? and why do they do what they do?
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A gendered perspective on organizational creation
Barbara Bird,Candida G. Brush +1 more
TL;DR: This paper drew from three theoretical perspectives to develop a new perspective that broadens the view of the creation of organizations from a masculine gender framework, which is often cast within a masculine perspective.
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Family Business Research: The Evolution of an Academic Field:
TL;DR: In this article, the establishment of a field of study or a discipline with academic or professional standing requires, among other things, a body of knowledge that expands understanding of that domain.