Trailblazing in Entrepreneurship : : Creating New Paths for Understanding the Field.

• Author: Shepherd, Dean A.
• TeilnehmendeR: Patzelt, Holger.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2017.; ©2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1: The Importance of Trailblazing Scholarship for Understanding Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship and Beyond
• Potential Research Opportunities and Research Methods
• Assumptions and Boundary Conditions
• Implications for Entrepreneurial Scholars
• Implications for Entrepreneurial Journals
• Conclusion
• Note
• References
• Chapter 2: Researching the Generation, Refinement, and Exploitation of Potential Opportunities
• Introduction
• A More Interactive Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
• The Dominant Cognitive Psychology Perspective
• An Interactive Perspective of the Identification and Refinement of a Potential Opportunity
• Potential Opportunity of the Mind and of the World
• Research Opportunities from a More Interactive Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunity
• Future Research
• Activity-Based Entrepreneurship
• Toward a Theory of the Micro-Foundations of Entrepreneurial Action
• Future Research on the Micro-Foundations of Entrepreneurial Action
• Future Research
• Entrepreneurship That Is More Cognitively Hot
• Entrepreneurial Cognition and Emotion's Effect on These Cognitive Processes
• The Role of Entrepreneurial Activity in Emotions
• Future Research
• Entrepreneurship Research That Is More Compassionate and Prosocial
• Heterogeneous Motivations to Investigate Entrepreneurially Generated Gains
• Compassion Organizing
• Future Research on Entrepreneurial Action to Alleviate the Suffering of Others
• Future Research
• Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3: Researching Entrepreneurial Failures
• Introduction
• Defining Entrepreneurial Failures
• The Financial Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
• The Social Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
• The Emotional Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure.
• Multiple and Inter-Related Implications of Entrepreneurial Failure
• Sensemaking of Entrepreneurial Failure
• Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 4: Researching at the Intersection of Innovation, Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship
• Introduction
• ACAP and the Entrepreneurial Process
• ACAP and Opportunity Generation and Refinement
• Stages of Innovation and Assessing Entrepreneurial Projects
• Stage Gates and Real Options Reasoning
• Individuals, Learning, and Stage Gates
• Emotions and the Stage-Gate Process
• Organizational Climate and Stage-Gate Decisions
• Summary
• Using Operations to "Manage" the Entrepreneurial Process
• Operations Management of Opportunity Identification and Evaluation
• Operations Management of Opportunity Exploitation
• Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5: Researching Entrepreneurships' Role in Sustainable Development
• Introduction
• A Definition of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
• What Is to Be Sustained in Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
• What Is to Be Developed in Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
• What Is Sustainable Entrepreneurship?
• Entrepreneurial Action Linking Sustainability and Development at the Individual Level
• Future Research
• Entrepreneurial Action Linking Sustainability and Development at the Community Level
• Scientists Who Become Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurial Action Generates Feedback
• Entrepreneurs as Translators
• Future Research
• Discussion and Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6: Researching at the Intersection of Family Business and Entrepreneurship
• Introduction
• An Interactions Perspective of Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Family Businesses
• The Mutual Adjustment of the Family and the Potential Opportunity
• Communities of Inquiry Within the Family Business.
• Family Members' Choices of Internal Communities of Inquiry
• Summary
• Emotions, Entrepreneurship, and Family Businesses1
• Building of a Firm's Stock of Emotion Resources
• Micro-Foundations of a Firm's Stock of Emotion Resources
• Stocks and Flows of Emotion Resources
• Emotional Reactions to Failure
• Summary
• Emotional Responses to Others' Suffering, Entrepreneurship, and Family Businesses4
• Summary
• Discussion and Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 7: Researching the Inter-Relationship of Health and Entrepreneurship
• Introduction
• Entrepreneurship and the Health of the Entrepreneur
• Health and the Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career
• Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Stress, and Health
• Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Emotion, and Health
• Pursuit of an Entrepreneurial Career, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
• Entrepreneurship and the Health of Others
• Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Others' Health
• Motivation, Entrepreneurship, and Others' Health
• Discussion and Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Chapter 8: Researching Entrepreneurial Decision Making
• Introduction
• Types of Entrepreneurial Decisions
• Opportunity-Assessment Decisions
• Entrepreneurial Career Decisions
• Decisions on Funding Entrepreneurial Actions
• Biases and Heuristics in Entrepreneurial Decision Making
• Entrepreneurs' Decision Policies
• Entrepreneurs' Common Decision Policy
• Individual Differences in Entrepreneurs' Decision Policies
• Decisions of Individual Entrepreneurs Within Contexts
• Discussion and Conclusion
• Note
• References
• Chapter 9: Conclusion
• References
• Index.