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Understanding the Entrepreneurial MindEntrepreneurial Intentions are Dead: Long Live Entrepreneurial Intentions

Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind: Entrepreneurial Intentions are Dead: Long Live... [Short of studying actual new venture launches, what could possibly be more potent than understanding the preconditions that enable entrepreneurial activity? Early research focused unsurprisingly on behavior (the “what?” and the “how?” even somewhat the “where?” and the “when?”) and since entrepreneurs were obviously special people, on the entrepreneurial person (the “who?”). Intentions are classically defined as the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to action (e.g., Dennett 1989; Krueger 2000). Here that translates to the working definition of the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to the decision to start a business. The field has adopted and adapted formal models of entrepreneurial intentions that are based on strong, widely accepted theory and whose results appear not only empirically robust but of great practical value. But do we have what we think we have? Or have we also opened the door to a much broader range of questions that will advance our theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs? We offer here a glimpse of the remarkably wide array of fascinating questions for entrepreneurship scholars.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Understanding the Entrepreneurial MindEntrepreneurial Intentions are Dead: Long Live Entrepreneurial Intentions

Part of the International Studies in Entrepreneurship Book Series (volume 24)
Editors: Carsrud, Alan L. ; Brännback, Malin
Krueger, Norris
Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind — May 20, 2009
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Publisher
Springer New York
Copyright
© Springer-Verlag New York 2009
ISBN
978-1-4419-0442-3
Pages
51–72
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-0443-0_4
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Abstract

[Short of studying actual new venture launches, what could possibly be more potent than understanding the preconditions that enable entrepreneurial activity? Early research focused unsurprisingly on behavior (the “what?” and the “how?” even somewhat the “where?” and the “when?”) and since entrepreneurs were obviously special people, on the entrepreneurial person (the “who?”). Intentions are classically defined as the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to action (e.g., Dennett 1989; Krueger 2000). Here that translates to the working definition of the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to the decision to start a business. The field has adopted and adapted formal models of entrepreneurial intentions that are based on strong, widely accepted theory and whose results appear not only empirically robust but of great practical value. But do we have what we think we have? Or have we also opened the door to a much broader range of questions that will advance our theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs? We offer here a glimpse of the remarkably wide array of fascinating questions for entrepreneurship scholars.]

Published: May 20, 2009

Keywords: Plan Behavior; Implementation Intention; Entrepreneurial Intention; Control Belief; Entrepreneurial Behavior

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