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Implementing Entrepreneurial Ideas: The Case for Intention

Barbara Bird
- 01 Jul 1988 - 
- Vol. 13, Iss: 3, pp 442-453
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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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Entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurs' states of mind that direct attention, experience, and action toward a business concept, set the form and direction of organizations at their inception. Subsequent organizational outcomes such as survival, development (including written plans), growth, and change are based on these intentions. The study of entrepreneurial intentions provides a way of advancing entrepreneurship research beyond descriptive studies and helps to distinguish entrepreneurial activity from strategic management.

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