Inside the Mind of the Entrepreneur: Cognition, Personality Traits, Intention, and Gender Behavior

ISBN-13: 9783319873169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 234 str.

Ana Tur Porcar; Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

Spis treści

An Integrated Model of Intentional Entrepreneurial Action.- Measuring and Understanding the Psychological Effects of Entrepreneurial Intentions: Multigroup Analysis.- Why Would You Ever Want to Become an Academic Entrepreneur?.- The Relation Between Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Entrepreneurship Rates Over Time: an Approach Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis.- Entrepreneurship Under Risk and Uncertainty: a Review of the Experimental Evidence.- Sensing and Generating New Opportunities for Value Innovation. How Team Behaviour Contributes to Success or to Failure?.- The Role of the Entrepreneurial Personality in New Ventures.- Intrapreneurs: Characteristics and Behavior.- Can Women Entrepreneurs Plan to Prosper? Exploring the Role of Gender as a Moderator of the Planning-Performance Relationship.- The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in Coworking-spaces.- Gender Behavioral Issues and Entrepreneurship.- Systems Approach to Entrepreneurial Success – the Theoretical Discussion on the Significance of Family Factors for Effective Entrepreneurship.- Personality Traits of the Partners and Performance in the Franchise Agreement.- The Importance of Empowerment in Entrepreneurship.- Leadership Styles and Entrepreneurship.- Co-operation and Conflict in International Entrepreneurs When Cultures Collide.

O autorze

Ana Tur-Porcar is Associate Professor at the Department of Basic Psychology, University of Valencia. Her research interests are personality, pro-social behavior, entrepreneurship, and emotions. She has published papers in Journal of Business Research, Personality and Individual Differences, Journal of Adolescence, Psychology & Marketing, Quality & Quantity, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, among others.

Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano is Full Professor at the University Research Institute of Social Economy, Cooperativism, and Entrepreneurship (IUDESCOOP), and at the Department of Management of University of Valencia. He has published research in more than 50 international peer-reviewed journals. He has published different books, too. He has been the co-editor or author of several books, including 'Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics' (Springer, 2012), 'Entrepreneurship and Business' (Springer, 2009), and 'Entrepreneurship' (Springer, 2007).

Blurb

This book connects entrepreneurship and psychology research by focusing on the personality dimensions of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurial leadership, and gender behavior. It features state of the art interdisciplinary research offering a unified perspective on entrepreneurial psychology. Individual chapters address advances related to entrepreneurial intentions, complexity management, personality psychology, intrapreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial communities and demographic changes, among others. Laboratory experiments that study entrepreneurial behavior round out the coverage.