Emotions and Opportunities: The Interplay of Opportunity Evaluation, Fear, Joy, and Anger as Antecedent of Entrepreneurial Exploitation

By Isabell M. Welpe, Matthias Spörrle, Dietmar Grichnik, Theresa Michl, David B. Audretsch. 2012

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

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Fear and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda (2015, positive): “Existing literature on fear of failure and entrepreneurship focuses mostly on the influence of the construct on the decision to start a business (e.g. Arenius and Minniti 2005; Hessels et al. 2011; Li 2011; Welpe et al. 2012).”
Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Understanding the Mediating Role of Cognitions (2018, background): “Studies (e.g., Cardon et al., 2012; Isen, Daubman, & Nowicki, 1987; Welpe et al., 2012) have noted that people with positive affective state are more creative and entrepreneurial in nature.”
Entrepreneurs’ decision making under different levels of uncertainty: the role of emotions (2013, background): “, 2012), and as an enhancer for taking decisions (Hayward et al., 2010; Podoynitsyna et al., 2012; Welpe et al., 2012), leading to higher creativity (Zhou and George, 2003).”
Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, positive): “Recent experimental research by Welpe et al. (2012) expressly examining antecedents of opportunity evaluation and opportunity exploitation underscores the need to distinguish evaluation from recognition and exploitation.”
The Mind in the Middle: Taking Stock of Affect and Cognition Research in Entrepreneurship (2015, positive): “In similar fashion, many studies documenting the impact of entrepreneurs’ affects could be seen as proceeding from the same metaphorical articulation (e.g., Foo, 2011; Foo, Uy & Baron, 2009; Podoynitsyna, Van der Bij & Song, 2012; Welpe et al., 2012).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “However, these motivations are often grounded in meeting (or failing to meet) self- or venturerelated objectives (Cardon et al., 2009; Welpe et al., 2012).”
Keep Calm and Carry On: Emotion Regulation in Entrepreneurs’ Learning from Failure (2018, background): “The affect and emotion associated with a salient event have an important influence on entrepreneurs’ motivation (Seo, Barrett, & Bartunek, 2004), judgment (Welpe et al., 2012), and, ultimately, efforts (Foo et al., 2009, 2015).”
Designing Entrepreneurship Experiments (2017, background): “In Second Life, researchers can manipulate variables such as amount of time a player invests in creating products (Gielink et al., 2015), gender composition of teams (Gupta et al., 2008), and perhaps even such psychological variables as emotions (Foo, 2011; Welpe et al., 2012).”