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The cognitive perspective: a valuable tool for answering entrepreneurship's basic “why” questions
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In this paper, the authors suggest that a cognitive perspective may provide important insights into key aspects of the entrepreneurial process and suggest that this perspective can help the field of entrepreneurship to answer three basic questions it has long addressed: (1) Why do some persons but not others choose to become entrepreneurs? (2) Why did some persons not others recognize opportunities for new products or services that can be profitably exploited? (3) Why are some entrepreneurs so much more successful than others).About:
This article is published in Journal of Business Venturing.The article was published on 2004-03-01. It has received 1061 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Entrepreneurship & New Ventures.read more
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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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Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success
Andreas Rauch,Michael Frese +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of personality traits and found that traits matched to the task of running a business produced higher effect sizes with business creation than traits that were not matched to running an enterprise.
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Opportunity Recognition as the Detection of Meaningful Patterns: Evidence from Comparisons of Novice and Experienced Entrepreneurs
TL;DR: Support is offered for the view that pattern recognition is a key component of opportunity recognition, as it is proposed that ideas for new products or services often emerge from the perception of such patterns.
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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control
TL;DR: SelfSelf-Efficacy (SE) as discussed by the authors is a well-known concept in human behavior, which is defined as "belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments".
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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The Promise of Entrepreneurship as a Field of Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon previous research conducted in the different social science disciplines and applied fields of business to create a conceptual framework for the field of entrepreneurship, and predict a set of outcomes not explained or predicted by conceptual frameworks already in existence in other fields.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.
TL;DR: Three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty are described: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, which is often employed when people are asked to assess the frequency of a class or the plausibility of a particular development.
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Mood and judgment: the affect infusion model (AIM).
TL;DR: A new integrative theory, the affect infusion model (AIM), is proposed as a comprehensive explanation of these effects of affective states in social judgments, and predicts that judgments requiring heuristic or substantive processing are more likely to be infused by affect than are direct access or motivated judgments.
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