How entrepreneurs acquire the capacity to excel: insights from research on expert performance

By Robert A. Baron, Rebecca A. Henry. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Strategic Entrepreneurship: Creating Value for Individuals, Organizations, and Society (2011, unknown): “Baron and Henry (2010) argued that enhanced cognitive resources, which entrepreneurs acquire through sustained deliberate practice, strongly influence the success of their subsequent ventures.”
Entrepreneurial Cognition, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Capability in the Creative Industries (2011, background): “…to shed light (Krueger, 2007) is ‘alertness’ (Kirzner, 1979), i.e. the entrepreneur’s ability to recognize complex constellations of cues that comprise potential business venturing opportunities which others fail to recognize or overlook (Baron, 2006; Baron and Henry, 2010; Gaglio and Katz, 2001).”
Towards a schematic theory of entrepreneurial alertness (2013, unknown): “This approach is also consistent with the arguments recently put forth by Baron and Henry (2010) regarding the acquisition of expert performance by entrepreneurs.”
International Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Logic and Utility of Individual Experience through Comparative Reasoning Approaches (2014, background): “…as in analogical reasoning), i.e. intense, repeated and effortful engagement, is linked to superior achievements, leading to expert performance and is associated with improvements in cognition, in both information acquisition and retrieval of relevant information from memory (Baron & Henry, 2010).”
Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning (2021, background): “Baron’s work (Baron, 1998;., 2004; Baron & Henry, 2010) is an exemplar for taking constructs within another field (cognitive psychology) to show how they could be redeployed to provide additional insights in the field of entrepreneurship.”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “…levels of performance, it has been found, requires diligent practice continued for long periods of time, as well as establishing high personal standards and careful monitoring of behavior to determine if it is in fact, moving toward these standards (Baron and Henry, 2010; Ericsson et al., 2006).”