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A tale of passion: New insights into entrepreneurship from a parenthood metaphor
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In this article, the authors propose that parenting, with its nurturance, passion, or even neglect or abuse, offers a particularly fruitful metaphor for examining entrepreneurship that may better resonate with entrepreneurs themselves than does current theory.About:
This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 575 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Entrepreneurship & Passion.read more
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The nature and experience of entrepreneurial passion
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build on fragmented and disparate extant work to conceptualize the nature of entrepreneurial passion associated with salient entrepreneurial role identities, and also theorize the mechanisms of the experience of entrepreneurial experience that provide coherence to goal-directed cognitions and behaviors during the pursuit of entrepreneurial effectiveness.
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The New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking “What is to be Sustained” with “What is to be Developed”:
Dean A. Shepherd,Holger Patzelt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, sustainable entrepreneurship is defined as "the preservation of nature, life support, and sustainability" in the context of sustainable development and entrepreneurship literatures, and defined as follows:
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Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process
Jeffery S. McMullen,Dimo Dimov +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examine the growing disconnect between the process-oriented conception of entrepreneurship taught in the classroom and theorized about in premier journals and the variance-oriented notion of entrepreneurship that characterizes empirical studies of the phenomenon.
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Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation
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Entrepreneurial exit as a critical component of the entrepreneurial process: Theoretical development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define entrepreneurial exit and demonstrate how this conceptualization provides concepts that are unique from those addressed by researchers in other domains; thus outlining a space for it within the literature.
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TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize these previously fragmented literatures around a more general "upper echelons perspective" and claim that organizational outcomes (strategic choices and performance levels) are partially predicted by managerial background characteristics.
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