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Implementing Entrepreneurial Ideas: The Case for Intention
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Clarifying the Entrepreneurial Orientation Construct and Linking It To Performance
G. T. Lumpkin,Gregory G. Dess +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a contingency framework for investigating the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance is proposed. But the authors focus on the business domain and do not consider the economic domain.
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Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare two intention-based models in terms of their ability to predict entrepreneurial intentions: Ajzen's theory of planned behavior (TPB) and Shapero's model of the entrepreneurial event (SEE).
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Differences between entrepreneurs and managers in large organizations: Biases and heuristics in strategic decision-making
Lowell W. Busenitz,Jay B. Barney +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined differences between entrepreneurs and managers in large organizations with respect to two biases and heuristics: overconfidence (overestimating the probability of being right) and representativeness (the tendency to overgeneralize from a few characteristics or observations).
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Does entrepreneurial self-efficacy distinguish entrepreneurs from managers?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an entrepreneurial self-efficacy construct (ESE) to predict the likelihood of an individual being an entrepreneur, which refers to the strength of a person's belief that he or she is capable of successfully performing the various roles and tasks of entrepreneurship.
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Development and Cross-Cultural Application of a Specific Instrument to Measure Entrepreneurial Intentions
Francisco Liñán,Yi–Wen Chen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Ajzen's theory of planned behavior to build an entrepreneurial intention questionnaire (EIQ) and analyzed its psychometric properties, which is then used to construct the EIQ questionnaire.
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