The Distinctive and Inclusive Domain of Entrepreneurial Cognition Research

By Ronald K. Mitchell, Lowell W. Busenitz, T. Lant, P. P. McDougall, E. Morse, J. Smith. 2004

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

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The influence of perceptions on potential entrepreneurs (2011, background): “Fortunately, research has notably evolved and this cognitive approach has gained much relevance in the attempts to explain entrepreneurship nowadays (Krueger and Carsrud 1993; Guzman and Santos 2001; Mitchell et al. 2004; Baron 2004; Mitchell et al. 2002a).”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…domain of entrepreneurship and seeks to “dimensionalize, define, and operationalize opportunity identification- based concepts and models” (Mitchell et al., 2004, p. 515) by asking, “why do some people recognize opportunities whereas others do not?” and “why do some people try to…”
Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research (2012, background): “Research has focused less on the characteristics of entrepreneurs and more on the characteristics of opportunities (Mitchell et al., 2004; Soh, 2003).”
The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation? (2010, background): “First, existing studies provide compelling evidence that cognitive factors influence entrepreneurship (Mitchell et al., 2002, 2004, 2007).”
Small-Business Owner-Managers’ Perceptions of Business Ethics and CSR-Related Concepts (2011, background): “The strong economic orientation of most strategy research has led many studies to equate entrepreneurial motivation with a desire for profit (Mitchell et al., 2004).”
Dominant Logic and Entrepreneurial Firms‘ Performance in a Transition Economy (2010, background): “…of dominant logic research, which has gained increasing attention in recent years, focuses more on the content of managerial cognitions and mind-sets (Boissot & Li, 2006; Gavetti, Levinthal, & Rivkin, 2005; Walsh, 1995; for a review on entrepreneurial cognition, see Mitchell et al., 2004, 2007).”
Affordable loss: behavioral economic aspects of the plunge decision (2009, background): “We note much excitement among entrepreneurship researchers and some pioneering work developing on the topic of entrepreneurial cognition (Mitchell et al., 2004).”
Self‐regulation and decision heuristics in entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and exploitation (2007, background): “Some scholars argue for a distinctive pattern of “entrepreneurial cognition” which includes the use of counter-factual and scenario thinking, pattern recognition and heuristics defined as cognitive short-cuts (Baron, 2004; Mitchell et al., 2004).”
Entrepreneurship as a Process: Toward Harmonizing Multiple Perspectives (2012, background): “…2000, 2001; Van de Ven & Engleman, 2004); the cognitive processes and routines of successful entrepreneurs (Baron & Ward, 2004; Mitchell et al., 2004; Sarasvathy, 2006); and the study of environmental or contextual factors (Gartner, 1985; Gnyawali & Fogel, 1994) that constrain…”