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Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship : Creating New Paths for Understanding the Field.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shepherd, Dean A.
Other Authors: Patzelt, Holger.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: The Importance of Trailblazing Scholarship for Understanding Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship and Beyond
  • Potential Research Opportunities and Research Methods
  • Assumptions and Boundary Conditions
  • Implications for Entrepreneurial Scholars
  • Implications for Entrepreneurial Journals
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Researching the Generation, Refinement, and Exploitation of Potential Opportunities
  • Introduction
  • A More Interactive Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
  • The Dominant Cognitive Psychology Perspective
  • An Interactive Perspective of the Identification and Refinement of a Potential Opportunity
  • Potential Opportunity of the Mind and of the World
  • Research Opportunities from a More Interactive Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
  • Future Research
  • Activity-Based Entrepreneurship
  • Toward a Theory of the Micro-Foundations of Entrepreneurial Action
  • Future Research on the Micro-Foundations of Entrepreneurial Action
  • Future Research
  • Entrepreneurship That Is More Cognitively Hot
  • Entrepreneurial Cognition and Emotion's Effect on These Cognitive Processes
  • The Role of Entrepreneurial Activity in Emotions
  • Future Research
  • Entrepreneurship Research That Is More Compassionate and Prosocial
  • Heterogeneous Motivations to Investigate Entrepreneurially Generated Gains
  • Compassion Organizing
  • Future Research on Entrepreneurial Action to Alleviate the Suffering of Others
  • Future Research
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Researching Entrepreneurial Failures
  • Introduction
  • Defining Entrepreneurial Failures
  • The Financial Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
  • The Social Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
  • The Emotional Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure.
  • Multiple and Inter-Related Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
  • Sensemaking of Entrepreneurial Failure
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Researching at the Intersection of Innovation, Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction
  • ACAP and the Entrepreneurial Process
  • ACAP and Opportunity Generation and Refinement
  • Stages of Innovation and Assessing Entrepreneurial Projects
  • Stage Gates and Real Options Reasoning
  • Individuals, Learning, and Stage Gates
  • Emotions and the Stage-Gate Process
  • Organizational Climate and Stage-Gate Decisions
  • Summary
  • Using Operations to "Manage" the Entrepreneurial Process
  • Operations Management of Opportunity Identification and Evaluation
  • Operations Management of Opportunity Exploitation
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Researching Entrepreneurships' Role in Sustainable Development
  • Introduction
  • A Definition of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
  • What Is to Be Sustained in Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
  • What Is to Be Developed in Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
  • What Is Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
  • Entrepreneurial Action Linking Sustainability and Development at the Individual Level
  • Future Research
  • Entrepreneurial Action Linking Sustainability and Development at the Community Level
  • Scientists Who Become Entrepreneurs
  • Entrepreneurial Action Generates Feedback
  • Entrepreneurs as Translators
  • Future Research
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Researching at the Intersection of Family Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction
  • An Interactions Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Family Businesses
  • The Mutual Adjustment of the Family and the Potential Opportunity
  • Communities of Inquiry Within the Family Business.
  • Family Members' Choices of Internal Communities of Inquiry
  • Summary
  • Emotions, Entrepreneurship, and Family Businesses1
  • Building of a Firm's Stock of Emotion Resources
  • Micro-Foundations of a Firm's Stock of Emotion Resources
  • Stocks and Flows of Emotion Resources
  • Emotional Reactions to Failure
  • Summary
  • Emotional Responses to Others' Suffering, Entrepreneurship, and Family Businesses4
  • Summary
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Researching the Inter-Relationship of Health and Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction
  • Entrepreneurship and the Health of the Entrepreneur
  • Health and the Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career
  • Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Stress, and Health
  • Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Emotion, and Health
  • Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
  • Entrepreneurship and the Health of Others
  • Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Others' Health
  • Motivation, Entrepreneurship, and Others' Health
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Researching Entrepreneurial Decision Making
  • Introduction
  • Types of Entrepreneurial Decisions
  • Opportunity-Assessment Decisions
  • Entrepreneurial Career Decisions
  • Decisions on Funding Entrepreneurial Actions
  • Biases and Heuristics in Entrepreneurial Decision Making
  • Entrepreneurs' Decision Policies
  • Entrepreneurs' Common Decision Policy
  • Individual Differences in Entrepreneurs' Decision Policies
  • Decisions of Individual Entrepreneurs Within Contexts
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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