Entrepreneurs' Optimism And New Venture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective

By Keith M. Hmieleski, Robert A. Baron. 2009

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Entrepreneurial actions and optimistic overconfidence: The role of motivated reasoning in new product introductions (2012, background): “Even so, determining whether one is moderately or highly optimistic is a crucial distinction, given that moderate optimism may enhance performance, whereas high optimism may decrease it (Hmieleski and Baron, 2009).”
Shared Authentic Leadership and New Venture Performance (2012, background): “The inclusion of this variable as a covariate allowed us to control for the effects of past growth on the relationships between the focal independent variables and the lagged measure of firm performance (Hmieleski & Baron, 2009).”
What I See, What I Do (2015, background): “…with the upper echelons theory have explored the implications of managerial self-potency through different lenses, including hubris (Hayward & Hambrick, 1997; Li & Tang, 2010), overconfidence (Simon & Houghton, 2003), optimism (Hmieleski & Baron, 2009), and narcissism (Chatterjee & Hambrick, 2007).”
Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition (2014, background): “Further interactions of person and environmental factors may help to develop a more comprehensive perspective on opportunity identification and innovation in the small business domain (see also Hmieleski & Baron, 2009).”
A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations (2015, background): “Entrepreneurs score higher on conscientiousness, openness to experience, and optimism than the broader population (e.g., Baron, Hmieleski, & Henry, 2012; Hmieleski & Baron, 2009; Zhao & Seibert, 2006).”
Should I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business background (2011, result): “Although the personality- and traitbased streams of research have produced few noteworthy results (Gartner, 1989a), our study adds to recent calls not to abandon elements of the person (Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007; Hmieleski and Corbett, 2008; Hmieleski and Baron, 2009).”
The nature of entrepreneurial experience, business failure and comparative optimism (2010, background): “Numerous measures have been operationalized which makes it difficult to compare results between studies (Cooper et al., 1988; Fraser and Greene, 2006; Hmieleski and Baron, 2009; Landier and Thesmar, 2009).”
A portfolio perspective on entrepreneurship and economic development (2015, neutral): “That has led to studies on the behavioral side of venture creation, such as research on the roles of passion (Cardon et al. 2009; Murnieks et al. 2014) and optimism (Hmieleski and Baron 2009), or the role of grief when failures are encountered (Shepherd 2003, 2009).”