Attributions to intuition in the venture founding process: Do entrepreneurs actually use intuition or just say that they do?

By Brian D. Blume, Jeffrey G. Covin. 2011

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Subfields: Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Thinking About Entrepreneurial Decision Making (2015, background): “…incongruence—that is, “the gap between the decision-making rationale that an individual conveys to others and the rationale that informs his/her actual decisions” (J. R. Mitchell & Shepherd, 2012: 355), and (3) rely more on intuition in making venture-founding decisions (Blume & Covin, 2011).”
Mental disorders in the entrepreneurship context : When Being Different Can Be an Advantage (2018, background): “…the entrepreneurship literature has theorized on the important role of intuition in new venture creation (e.g., Mitchell, Friga, & Mitchell, 2005; Blume & Covin, 2011), Blume and Covin (2011, p: 138) concluded that because “of the difficulties associated with measuring intuition (Simon, 1987;…”
International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “Thus, attribution to heuristics may mask a sophisticated process of analogical reasoning, in a similar way to which attribution to intuition may mask its actual use (Blume & Covin, 2011).”
Entrepreneurial alertness in the pursuit of new opportunities (2012, background): “Recent research has attempted to distinguish between entrepreneurs' attributions about intuition from their actual use of intuition (Blume and Covin, 2011).”
Betting on the Coachable Entrepreneur: Signaling and Social Exchange in Entrepreneurial Pitches (2018, background): “Second, entrepreneurs are also likely to attribute their own decision-making style to one that is largely based on intuition (Blume & Covin, 2011).”
An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges, and Provocative Possibilities (2014, unknown): “…moderates the effect of uncertainty and action under unpredictable conditions; they propose that experts may be more likely to downplay the importance of prediction and rather focus on their abilities to create new markets and firms based on their expertise (what they know) (Blume & Covin, 2011).”