Entrepreneurial Behaviour : Unveiling the Cognitive and Emotional Aspects of Entrepreneurship.

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the Editors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1-Introduction to "The Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Unveiling the Cognitive and Emotional Aspect of Entrepreneurship" -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2-Evolving Differently from the Same Set of Pre-conditions: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Entrepreneurship and Genius Loci -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Background -- 2.2. The Missing Link of Social Network Studies: The Contextualization -- 2.3. Research Question -- 3. Research Design and Method -- 4. Findings -- 4.2. Causal Entrepreneurs Versus Effectual Entrepreneurs: The Reef Metaphor -- 5. Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3-Entrepreneurship Education and Gamification: An Analysis of Students' Learning Outcomes -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 2.2. Gamification and EE -- 3. Method -- 4. Findings -- 4.1. Cognitive LOs of Gamification in EE -- 4.2. Affective LOs of Gamification in EE -- 4.3 Behavioral LOs of Gamification in EE -- 4.4 Skill-based LOs of Gamification in EE -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1. Implication of Findings -- 5.2. Future Research Directions -- References -- Chapter 4-Narcissism, Machiavellianism and Psychopathy: How Do Displayed Entrepreneurs' Personality Dark Traits Influence Crowdfunding Success? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Entrepreneurs' Personality Traits and Firms' Success -- 3. Hypotheses Development: Entrepreneurs' Dark Traits and Fundraising Success -- 3.2. Entrepreneurs' Machiavellianism and Fundraising Success -- 3.3. Entrepreneurs' Psychopathy and Fundraising Success -- 4. Method -- 4.2. Variables Description -- 5. Results -- 6. Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1.

Chapter 5-Startups, Innovation and Performance: An Empirical Analysis in the Italian Context Using SMAA-S -- Introduction -- Research Design -- Methodology: SMAA-S -- Data -- Variables Operationalization -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6-The Target of Entrepreneurial Passion Under the Role of Passion Types and Culture: A Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- The Nature of Passion -- The Role of Passion in Entrepreneurship -- Passion for Founding, Developing and Growth -- Passion for Inventing -- Passion for Competition -- Passion for Product/service -- Passion for People -- Passion for Social Mission -- Integration of Culture into Entrepreneurial Target of Passion -- Cultural Dimensions and Entrepreneurs' Target of Passion -- Power Distance -- Uncertainty Avoidance -- Masculinity-Femininity -- Long-term Orientation-Short-term Orientation -- Indulgence-Restraint -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7-The Role of Entrepreneurial Stereotypes for Commercial and Social Startup Intentions -- Background and Research Hypotheses -- Self-esteem -- Stereotypes -- Relating Stereotypes to Entrepreneurial Intentions -- Method -- Design and Measures -- Analysis and Results -- Differences Between Entrepreneurial Stereotypes -- Entrepreneurial Stereotypes and Entrepreneurial Intentions -- General Procedure -- Model A - Commercial Entrepreneurial Intent -- Model B - Social Entrepreneurial Intent -- Discussion -- Limitations and Future Research -- Theoretical and Practical Implications -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A1. Survey Instrument -- Appendix A2. Measurement Model Evaluation -- Appendix A3. Latent Variable Correlations -- Chapter 8-Uncovering the Role of Commitment in the Entrepreneurial Process: A Research Agenda -- Introduction -- Commitment, an Important Ingredient of the Entrepreneurial Process.

The Concept of Commitment: Accounting for Consistent Courses of Action -- Commitment and the Volitional Phases of the Entrepreneurial Process -- Commitment and the Entrepreneurial Dialogic -- From Organizational to Entrepreneurial Commitment: Building a Bridge -- Commitment to What? Extending the Model to Multiple Foci and Contexts -- From a Three-component to a Two-component Model? Development and Reconceptualization -- What is Next? Futures Avenues for Research on Nascent Entrepreneurs' Commitment -- Investigating Antecedents and Outcomes: Generic, Distinct and Action-related Paths -- Mapping the Entrepreneurial Process Through Profiles of Commitment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9-Developing Creative Virtuosities for Entrepreneurship: Perspectives from Four Arts-based Metaphors -- Introduction -- Motivational Backdrop -- The Quest for Creative Virtuosities in Entrepreneurship -- Brief Description of Methods -- Data Collection -- Analysis -- Toward a Framework of Creative Virtuosities for Entrepreneurship -- Finding Your Own Voice and Passion at Work (Metaphor: "Poetry") -- Unleashing Creativity and Imagination at Work (Metaphor: "Theater") -- Working Collaboratively Toward Innovation (Metaphor: "Orchestra") -- Handling Complexity and Integrative Thinking (Metaphor: "Jazz") -- Concluding Remarks -- Enchantment Through Arts: A Manifesto for Creative Entrepreneurship -- References -- Appendix. A Manifesto for Developing Creative Virtuosities. -- Chapter 10-The Role of Heuristics and Biases in Entrepreneurial Decision-making When Creativity is a Necessity -- Introduction -- Confronting Infinite Choices: Pragmatism Meets Rationality -- Entrepreneurial Decision-making -- Generating and Evaluating Alternatives -- Decision-making and Creativity -- Active Search and Knowledge Integration.

The Role of Heuristics and Biases in Entrepreneurial Decision-making -- Method -- Study Setting -- Sampling -- Data Sources -- Data Analysis -- Open Coding -- Axial Coding -- Findings -- Creativity Triggers -- Discrepancies -- Cognitive Comprehensiveness -- Heuristics and Biases as Sieves -- Creativity Assessment -- Usefulness Validation -- Discovering Discontinuity -- Reframing -- Tradeoff Impasse. At this point in the life span of a decision, new venture teams mention facing difficult tradeoffs. As one interviewee illustrated: -- Heuristics and Biases as Tie-breakers -- Team Coherence -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix: Interview Protocol -- Chapter 11-Re-visiting Effectuation: The Relationships with Causation, Entrepreneurial Experience, and Innovativeness -- Introduction -- Hypotheses -- Effectuation and Causation -- Entrepreneurial Experience and the Two Decision Logics -- Effectuation, Entrepreneurial Experience, and Innovativeness -- Methods -- Measures -- Entrepreneurial Experience. In line with Mitchell, Smith, Seawright, and Morse (2000) and Baron and Ensley (2006), we consider entrepreneurs who have founded at least two companies with years of entrepreneurial experience as experts, whether they were suc -- Effectuation. There are a couple of published quantitative measures for effectuation (e.g., Brettel, Mauer, Engelen, &amp -- Küpper, 2012 -- Chandler et al., 2011) developed for different contexts. The varying treatments of effectuation pose a challenge to furthe -- Innovativeness. We adapted the questions used by Hannah, Burton, and Baron (1996) and Burton et al. (2002) and assessed, on a five-point Likert-type scale, their innovativeness. We inquired about the innovativeness of opportunity/product and technology st.

Control Variables. A higher level of education or Management of Business Administration (MBA) can indicate greater causal logic training and may affect the logic orientation of the entrepreneur (Sarasvathy, 2008). The training of MBA covers the core of ca -- Results -- Hypotheses Testing -- Robustness Test -- Discussion, Limitation, and Implications -- Moving Forward: Suggestions for Effectuation Theory -- Limitation -- Implication -- References -- Chapter 12-Evaluation of Decision-making in Family Business Mixing Data Based and Socioemotional Wealth Considerations -- Introduction -- The Chroma Model: An Information-driven DMP Analysis Tool -- SEW in the Family Business -- Dimensions of SEW -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13-Cognitive Biases in the Venture Capitalist - Entrepreneur Dyad: The Role of Entrepreneurs' Experience in VCs' Investment Decisions -- Introduction -- VCs Decision-making Process -- The Biases in the Investment Decision-making -- Future Research -- References -- Chapter 14-Why Senior Workers Are Becoming Entrepreneurs: Necessity or Passion? -- Introduction -- Why to Spotlight on Senior Entrepreneurship? -- The Motivation for Senior Entrepreneurship -- Final Reflection -- References -- Chapter 15-Gender and Performance: Preliminary Evidences from Italian Innovative SMEs -- Introduction -- SMEs: Gender, Innovation and Performance -- Italian Innovative SMEs -- Methodology -- Dependent Variables -- Firm growth. Adhering to the most updated literature, in this chapter performance has been investigated in terms of firm growth in the period 2014-2017. This three-year time period was chosen as a period long enough to smooth periodic fluctuations in the -- Independent Variables.

Gender of the entrepreneur. This variable has been selected recurring to the Italian Chamber of Commerce database of innovative SMEs. This has been treated as a dichotomous variable where 0=male entrepreneur and 1=female entrepreneur.

The success, longevity, and survival of SMEs are deeply linked to the effectiveness of individual decision-making processes, and established firms need to develop an entrepreneurial and innovative decision-making processes to maintain competitive advantages in a continuously changing and increasingly turbulent environment.

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