Collective Cognition: When Entrepreneurial Teams, Not Individuals, Make Decisions

By G. West. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Unlocking Founding Team Prior Shared Experience: A Transactive Memory System Perspective (2012, background): “Recent studies have recognized the importance of adopting team-level cognitive constructs in entrepreneurship studies, but have largely remained as theoretical explorations with few exceptions (Chowdhury, 2005; West, 2007).”
The intrapreneur and innovation in creative firms (2012, background): “However, the research centred on intrapreneurial traits has had only limited success in explaining the behaviour and perceptions of intrapreneurs (Keh et al., 2002; West, 2007).”
Top management team conflict and entrepreneurial strategy making in China (2009, background): “Strategic decision-makings in these firms are often made collectively instead of by individual entrepreneurs (West, 2007).”
Cognition and Capabilities: A Multi-Level Perspective (2013, background): “Subsequent research has focused on extending the effects of dominant logics to other corporate activities, including the strategy creation of new ventures (West, 2007) and on the international expansion patterns of large organizations (Levy et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurial Team Cognition: A Review (2015, neutral): “While used by team scholars in the field of organizational behaviour and psychology (Mohammed and Dumville 2001; West 2007), to our knowledge entrepreneurial team scholars have not yet fully explored the used of these methods to assess entrepreneurial team cognition concepts.”
Opportunity Discovery, Problem Solving and the Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm (2007, background): “West, 2007 ). Collective theorizing requires knowledge sharing or exchange.”
Easy Now, Desirable Later: The Moderating Role of Temporal Distance in Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation (2013, neutral): “…processes, including risk perceptions, biases, heuristics, learning, or the influence of prior knowledge (e.g., Choi & Shepherd, 2004; Dimov, 2007; Keh, Foo, & Lim, 2002; Palich & Bagby, 1995; Shane, 2000; West, 2007; for review, see Gregoire, Corbett, & McMullen, 2011; Mitchell et al., 2007).”
Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, neutral): “For example, teams, not individuals, found the vast majority of new ventures (Cardon, Post, & Forster, 2017; Chowdhury, 2005; Klotz, Hmieleski, Bradley, & Busenitz, 2014; Lechler, 2001; West, 2007).”