The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation?

By Dietmar Grichnik, Alexander Smeja, Isabell M. Welpe. 2010

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Entrepreneurial fear of failure: Scale development and validation (2020, methodology): “, 2013; 2014), and the PANAS-X fear subscale (Watson and Clark, 1994; see Foo, 2011; Grichnik et al., 2010).”
The role of entrepreneurial passion in the formation of students’ entrepreneurial intentions (2020, background): “Grichnik, Smeja, and Welpe (2010) proposed that powerful and positive emotions may decline the entrepreneur’s perceived difficulty and make the person to be optimistic.”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Still other work has attended to emotional motivations, such as passion, happiness, joy, anger, and fear, as influencing entrepreneurial action (Cardon et al., 2009; Grichnik et al., 2010; Welpe, Spörrle, Grichnik, Michl, & Audretsch, 2012).”
Entrepreneurship and well-being: Past, present, and future (2019, background): “329) such as creativity and innovation (Baron and Tang, 2011; Perry-Smith and Coff, 2011), opportunity evaluation (Grichnik et al., 2010; Welpe et al., 2012), risk perceptions and preferences (Podoynitsyna et al.”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, background): “Tang, 2011; Perry-Smith & Coff, 2011), opportunity evaluation (Grichnik et al., 2010; Tang et al., 2012; Welpe et al., 2012; Arora et al., 2013), risk perceptions and preferences (Foo, 2011;”
Opportunity Evaluation as Rule‐Based Decision Making (2014, background): “As such, it has been conceptualized that opportunities unfold sequentially through opportunity recognition, evaluation, and exploitation (Grichnik et al., 2010; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000; Wood et al., 2012).”
Framing the Entrepreneurial Experience (2012, background): “He concludes that affective states can influence the individual’s perceptions of the external world, levels of creativity, use of heuristics in decision making, memory, motives, and cognitive strategies (see Grichnik et al., 2010).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “…most of what we know about fear of failure in entrepreneurship comes from studying individuals as they initially decide whether to engage in entrepreneurship or not, hence highlighting the inhibiting effects of fear (e.g., Arenius & Minniti, 2005; Grichnik et al., 2010; Welpe et al., 2012).”