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Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind

Opening the Black Box

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Editors:
  1. Alan L. Carsrud

    1. Global Entrepreneurship Center, Florida International University, Miami, U.S.A.

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  2. Malin Brännback

    1. Dept. Business Administration, Swedish University Abo, Turku, Finland

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  • Brings together leading authorities on entrepreneurial cognition research worldwide (Europe, Australia and the US)
  • Draws from related fields of cognitive and social psychology, organizational behavior, consumer research, and career development to paint a multi-layered picture of the entrepreneur
  • Sets the agenda for future research in the field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship (ISEN, volume 24)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  3. Cognitive Maps and Entrepreneurial Scripts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Cognitive Maps in Entrepreneurship: Researching Sense Making and Action

      • Malin Brännback, Alan Carsrud
      Pages 75-96

    3. Entrepreneurial Scripts and Entrepreneurial Expertise: The Information Processing Perspective

      • Ronald K. Mitchell, Benjamin T. Mitchell, J. Robert Mitchell
      Pages 97-137

  4. Motivations, Emotions, and Entrepreneurial Passion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Motivations: The Entrepreneurial Mind and Behavior

      • Alan Carsrud, Malin Brännback, Jennie Elfving, Kristie Brandt
      Pages 141-165

    3. The Role of Emotions and Cognitions in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making

      • Theresa Michl, Isabell M. Welpe, Matthias Spörrle, Arnold Picot
      Pages 167-190

    4. Collective Passion in Entrepreneurial Teams

      • Mateja Drnovsek, Melissa S. Cardon, Charles Y. Murnieks
      Pages 191-215

  5. Attributions, Self-Efficacy, and Locus of Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Why? Attributions About and by Entrepreneurs

      • Kelly G. Shaver
      Pages 219-232

    3. Self-Efficacy: Conditioning the Entrepreneurial Mindset

      • René Mauer, Helle Neergaard, Anne Kirketerp Linstad
      Pages 233-257

    4. Perceptions of Efficacy, Control, and Risk: A Theory of Mixed Control

      • Erik Monsen, Diemo Urbig
      Pages 259-281

  6. Beyond Cognitions: From Thinking and Opportunity Alertness and Opportunity Identification to Behaving

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 283-283
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    2. Entrepreneurial Decision-Making: Thinking Under Uncertainty

      • Veronica Gustafsson
      Pages 285-304

    3. Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?

      • Connie Marie Gaglio, Susan Winter
      Pages 305-325
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About this book

Interest in the functioning of the human mind can certainly be traced to Plato and Aristotle who often dealt with issues of perceptions and motivations. While the Greeks may have contemplated the human condition, the modern study of the human mind can be traced back to Sigmund Freud (1900) and the psychoanalytic movement. He began the exploration of both conscious and unconscious factors that propelled humans to engage in a variety of behaviors. While Freud’s focus may have been on repressed sexuality our focus in this volume lies elsewhere. We are concerned herein with the expression of the cognitions, motivations, passions, intentions, perceptions, and emotions associated with entrepreneurial behaviors. We are attempting in this volume to expand on the work of why entrepreneurs think d- ferently from other people (Baron, 1998, 2004). During the decade of the 1990s the eld of entrepreneurship research seemingly abandoned the study of the entrepreneur. This was the result of earlier research not being able to demonstrate some unique entrepreneurial personality, trait, or char- teristic (Brockhaus and Horwitz, 1986). It was both a naïve and simplistic search for the “holy grail” of what made entrepreneurs the way they are. However, many of the researchers in this volume have never gave up the belief that a better und- standing of the mind of the entrepreneur would give us a better understanding of the processes that lead to the creation of new ventures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Global Entrepreneurship Center, Florida International University, Miami, U.S.A.

    Alan L. Carsrud

  • Dept. Business Administration, Swedish University Abo, Turku, Finland

    Malin Brännback

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind

  • Book Subtitle: Opening the Black Box

  • Editors: Alan L. Carsrud, Malin Brännback

  • Series Title: International Studies in Entrepreneurship

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0443-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-0442-3Published: 23 June 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8291-9Published: 30 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-0443-0Published: 30 July 2009

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1922

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-5884

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 375

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship

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