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Entrepreneurial Behavior: Its Nature, Scope, Recent Research, and Agenda for Future Research

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Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 24))

The end of all the cognition and motivation of entrepreneurs is to take some action in the world, and by doing so, give rise to a venture, an organization. Thoughts, intentions, motivations, learning, intelligence without action does not create economic value. The very nature of organizing is anchored in actions of individuals as they buy, sell, gather and deploy resources, work, etc. The values created by exploiting of opportunity undoubtedly include some that are intrapsychic and personal, but those we study, those of value to the readers of this book, are inherently interpersonal and social and thus observable and learnable. This chapter provides a brief overview of entrepreneurial behavior using a limited but hopefully representative lens on recent research. We call for more research on what entrepreneurs do and that this research be both more rigorous than what we currently have and also more creatively sourced.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Notes

  1. 1.

    ABIinform found only two articles with the joint search fields of entrepreneur and role behavior. The same two articles surfaced with search terms of entrepreneurship and role behavior. One article, Ortqvist et al. (2007), is in an obscure journal and described below. The other article dealt with corporate entrepreneurship.

  2. 2.

    Other than interaction with others, these behaviors may or may not be observable. As stated, they are lacking specificity we recommend.

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Bird, B., Schjoedt, L. (2009). Entrepreneurial Behavior: Its Nature, Scope, Recent Research, and Agenda for Future Research. In: Carsrud, A., Brännback, M. (eds) Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 24. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0443-0_15

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