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

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.

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