The Psychology of Entrepreneurship

By Melek Kalkan, Canani Kaygusuz. 2012

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For the last fifty years, social history has witnessed a transformation that was not experienced in any period before. The facts that how people are affected and through what sort of characteristics individuals try to handle this situation has been a multi-perspective issue and was studied thoroughly. Understanding intersocietal and interpersonal relationship systems that are based on fluctuation and competition was aimed and studies were carried out to determine what characteristics that individuals had in order to survive in this period. For over thirty years, the role of entrepreneurship in dealing with competition has drawn researchers’ extensive interest. In spite of this, the concept of entrepreneurship hasn’t had an operational definition that everyone agrees on because it is multi-dimensional and it is affected by many variables.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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The moderating role of entrepreneurship education on the antecedents of entrepreneurial intention (2016, unknown): “For example, role models exert an influence on attitude, SN and PBC (Athayde 2009; Boyd and Vozikis 1994; Casrud 1992; Dohse and Walter 2012; Scherer et al. 1991).”
Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Understanding the Mediating Role of Cognitions (2018, background): “These findings supports the perspective that developing a deeper understanding of psychological factors can aid in unravelling the process of entrepreneurship (Frese & Gielnik, 2014), much of which takes place inside a person’s mind.”
Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality (2012, background): “In contrast, the impact of other personality variables has not been established unambiguously, and their impact on self-employment decisions is questionable (Gartner 1988; Cooper and Gimeno-Gascon 1992; Rauch and Frese 2007; Baum et al. 2007).”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “…which is likely detrimental to their MWB. Finally, entrepreneurs differ from salaried employees in their personality traits, especially in traits such as self-efficacy, need for achievement (Frese & Gielnik, 2014 for an overview), and psychological capital (Baron, Franklin, & Hmieleski, 2016).”
Entrepreneurship and psychological disorders: How ADHD can be productively harnessed (2016, background): “…individual characteristics such as self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and human capital, as indicated by recent meta-analytical reviews (e.g., Frese & Gielnik, 2014), it is virtually impossible to find any positive implications of “negative” disorders such as ADHD in the scholarly…”
When passion fades: disentangling the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial passion for founding (2016, background): “This supports recent claims by Frese and Gielnik (2014) suggesting that individual action can also affect passion rather than the reverse path, which scholars have traditionally adhered to.”
Entrepreneurship and well-being: The role of psychological autonomy, competence, and relatedness (2019, background): “There is a broad consensus among entrepreneurship scholars today that, although they do overlap to some extent (Baum et al., 2014; Parker, 2004), self-employment and entrepreneurial work task engagement are not the same phenomenon.”
Employee intrapreneurship and work engagement: A latent change score approach (2017, background): “Self-efficacy was shown to relate positively to an employee's intrapreneurial intentions (Douglas & Fitzsimmons, 2012) and is regarded as a crucial personal characteristic explaining entrepreneurial success (Frese & Gielnik, 2014).”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Bias, along with heuristics, intelligence, and knowledge, are some of the most studied themes in cognitive psychology that can lend themselves easily to the studies of entrepreneurship (Frese, 2009; Frese & Gielnik, 2014).”
Does Entrepreneurial Leadership Foster Creativity Among Employees and Teams? The Mediating Role of Creative Efficacy Beliefs (2019, background): “…leadership-creativity link (e.g. Chen 2007; Hitt et al. 2011; Newman et al. 2017), these studies seem to target macro-level creativity (e.g. Frese and Gielnik 2014; Renko 2017) and have not sufficiently demonstrated the distinctiveness and effectiveness of entrepreneurial leadership in…”
A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations (2015, background): “Some researchers suggest that approaches involving effectuation, bricolage, and improvisation are more useful to entrepreneurs (Frese & Gielnik, 2014).”
Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, background): “In contrast, Rauch and Frese (2007) or Frese and Gielnik (2014) have shown that a range of specific entrepreneurial traits correlate with entrepreneurship outcomes, and favor analyzing changes in specific traits.”