Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Cognition: Rethinking the People Side of Entrepreneurship Research

By Ronald K. Mitchell, Lowell W. Busenitz, T. Lant, P. P. McDougall, E. Morse, J. Smith. 2002

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

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What Do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research (2010, methodology): “The framework utilizes contributions from several fields of research such as economics, personality psychology, and strategy (Mitchell et al., 2002:94).”
The role of entrepreneurial decision-making in opportunity creation and recognition (2015, background): “Entrepreneurs have cognitive preferences and mental frameworks which influence their decision-making, and in turn explain why some people and not others recognize and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities (Mitchell et al., 2002; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000).”
A conceptual framework for entrepreneurship education policy: Meeting government and economic purposes (2013, background): “Further studies have revealed coupled or multiple links between entrepreneurship, education and individual personality characteristics (Lüthje and Franke, 2002) while others report a link to personal cognitive infrastructure (Krueger, 2000; Mitchell et al., 2002).”
Reflections on the 2010 AMR Decade Award: Delivering on the Promise of Entrepreneurship As a Field of Research (2012, background): “Several scholars (e.g., Alvarez & Busenitz, 2001; Hitt, Ireland, Camp, & Sexton, 2001; Mitchell et al., 2002; Zahra & Dess, 2001) challenged this argument, asserting that strategic management explains most if not all of the phenomena that we claimed to be the distinctive domain of entrepreneurship.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…and cognitive mechanisms, such as self- efficacy, counterfactual thinking, attributional style, planning fallacy, self- justification, overconfidence, and illusion of control (Baron, 1998; Krueger, 1993; Krueger & Dickson, 1994; McGrath, 1999; Mitchell et al., 2000, 2002; Simon et al., 2000).”
Understanding opportunity discovery and sustainable advantage: the role of transaction costs and property rights (2008, neutral): “This emphasis harmonizes with recent fi rm-level work on opportunity discovery (usually conceptualized as innovativeness) and its experiential antecendents (Helfat, 1997; Mosakowski, 1998; Helfat and Raubitschek, 2000; Matsusaka, 2001; Mitchell et al., 2002; Lumpkin and Lichtenstein, 2005).”
Beyond the Single-Person, Single-Insight Attribution in Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunities (2007, background): “More generally, the above work converges under the idea that entrepreneurs form unique mental representations of the world (Baron, 2004; Mitchell et al., 2002; Shaver & 716 ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY and PRACTICE Scott, 1991).”
Accelerator expertise: Understanding the intermediary role of accelerators in the development of the Bangalore entrepreneurial ecosystem (2018, background): “…Another stream of research that emerged to address dynamic aspects of action focused on entrepreneurial cognition, or “the knowledge structures that people use to make assessments, judgments, or decisions involving opportunity evaluation, venture creation, and growth” (Mitchell et al., 2002: 97).”
Influence of Founder—CEOs' Personal Values on Firm Performance: Moderating Effects of Firm Age and Size† (2007, result): “We agree with other researchers that the “people side” of entrepreneurship is important and more complicated than what was formerly assumed (Mitchell et al., 2002).”
Untangling the Intuition Mess: Intuition as a Construct in Entrepreneurship Research (2005, background): “…extent, people’s understanding of the nature, use, and impact of entrepreneurial intuition tends to influence the nature of their entrepreneurial thinking and consequently their entrepreneurial behaviors (Busenitz & Lau, 1996; Mitchell, Smith, Seawright, & Morse, 2000; Mitchell et al., 2002b).”
Entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and business start‐up: developing a multi‐dimensional definition (2010, background): “The notion of entrepreneurial self-efficacy is grounded in the socio-cognitive approach that simultaneously examines the dynamic interaction between the individual and the environment by explainingwhat cognitive, motivational and affective processes are implicated in an individual’s decision to enga”
The Role of Cognitive Style and Risk Preference on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intentions (2007, background): “Researchers have postulated that a focus on the role of cognition has the potential to make a significant contribution to the study of entrepreneurship (Allinson, Chell, & Hayes, 2000; Baron, 1998; Mitchell et al., 2002).”