The cognitive perspective: a valuable tool for answering entrepreneurship's basic “why” questions

By Robert A. Baron. 2004

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, positive): “Following Baron (2004), this may be the “factor which leads nascent entrepreneurs to risk their time, fortunes, and careers in starting new ventures” (p. 226), underscoring the link between risk taking and opportunity exploitation.”
Growth Aspirations and Cultural Support for Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Post-Socialist Countries (2007, background): “Cognitive errors, such as a strong tendency to weight negative information more heavily than positive information ( Baron, 2004 ) may also contribute to a low level of entrepreneurial activity in Slovenia, where not many success stories can be found in the media compared to lamentation and criticism”
A Longitudinal Examination of the Relationship Between Team Leadership and Performance (2010, background): “Casual observation and research evidence reveals that people frequently feel anger and resentment when criticized (Baron, 1998).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Human Capital at Upper‐Secondary Level (2013, neutral): “ceiving the extraordinary (Baron 2004).”
Self‐regulation and decision heuristics in entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and exploitation (2007, background): “Indeed, entrepreneurs are strongly motivated to approach or attain positive task goals (Alvarez and Busenitz, 2001; Baron, 2004; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000), which is an important feature of promotion pride.”
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).”
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).”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “Baron (2004) argues that entrepreneurial abilities are dependent on how we acquire, store, transform and use information.”
Creativity and Entrepreneurial Intention in Young People (2011, background): “The entrepreneurial cognition literature has sharpened our understanding on the cognitive properties that help individuals to become alert to and recognize opportunities (Baron, 2004).”
The Distinctive and Inclusive Domain of Entrepreneurial Cognition Research (2004, background): “At present, the prevailing assumption in cross-domain research appears to be that entrepreneurship scholars have much to gain from importing developed work from other disciplines (e.g., Baron, 2004).”
Testing the Entrepreneurial Intention Model on a Two-Country Sample (2006, background): “The importance of cognitive variables in understanding this personal decision has been highlighted by Baron (2004) or Shaver & Scott (1991), among other researchers.”
Entrepreneurship Research (1985–2009) and the Emergence of Opportunities (2014, background): “First, the intersection of opportunities with individuals and teams is clearly meaningful for better understanding why some individuals are better than others at identifying and exploiting new opportunities (Baron, 2004).”
Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, background): “Thinking style, skills, and goal commitment are dimensions along which entrepreneurs are assumed to differ from other people (Baron, 2004).”