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Inside the Mind of the Entrepreneur

Cognition, Personality Traits, Intention, and Gender Behavior

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  • Presents multidisciplinary analysis of the linkages between entrepreneurship and psychology
  • Features new topics such as intrapreneurship and social franchising
  • Includes lab experiments studying entrepreneurial psychology

Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Entrepreneur’s Cognition and Intention

  2. Entrepreneurial Personality, Traits and Gender

  3. Entrepreneurial Leadership

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About this book

This book connects entrepreneurship and psychology research by focusing on the personality dimensions of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial leadership, and gender behavior. It features state of the art interdisciplinary research offering a unified perspective on entrepreneurial psychology. Individual chapters address advances related to entrepreneurial intentions, complexity management, personality psychology, intrapreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial communities and demographic changes, among others. Laboratory experiments that study entrepreneurial behavior round out the coverage.


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Ana Tur Porcar, Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

About the editors

Ana Tur-Porcar is Associate Professor at the Department of Basic Psychology, University of Valencia. Her research interests are personality, pro-social behavior, entrepreneurship, and emotions. She has published papers in Journal of Business Research, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Adolescence, Psychology & Marketing, Quality & Quantity, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, among others.

Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano is Full Professor at the University Research Institute of Social Economy, Cooperativism, and Entrepreneurship (IUDESCOOP), and at the Department of Management of University of Valencia. He has published research in more than 50 international peer-reviewed journals. He has published different books, too. He has been the co-editor or author of several books, including 'Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics' (Springer, 2012), 'Entrepreneurship and Business' (Springer, 2009), and 'Entrepreneurship' (Springer, 2007).

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