Entrepreneurial Cognition : Exploring the Mindset of Entrepreneurs.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Entrepreneurial Context and Cognition -- References -- Chapter 2: Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Prior Knowledge and Opportunity Recognition -- Prior Knowledge and Opportunities That Support and Enhance Natural and Communal Environments -- Knowledge of Natural and Communal Environments -- Prior Knowledge of Societal Problems -- Entrepreneurial Knowledge: Bringing It All Together for Action -- Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Others' Health -- Prior Knowledge and Opportunities That Alleviate Others' Suffering After a Disaster -- International Knowledge and Opportunities to Go Abroad -- Alliance Partners -- Venture Capital Firms -- Proximal Firms -- Internal and External Sources of Knowledge About International Markets -- Knowledge, Cognitive Processes, and Opportunity Identification -- Structural Alignment Connecting the Novel to the Known -- The Role of Prior Knowledge in the Structural-Alignment Process -- Differences in the Nature of Opportunities and the Structural-­Alignment Process -- The Effects of Convergent and Divergent Variations in Alignment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Motivation and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Motivation and Opportunity Identification -- Financial Reward -- Financial Reward, Prior Knowledge, and Opportunity Identification -- Entrepreneurial Passion -- Fear Motivating Entrepreneurial (In)Action -- Fears, Passion, and Entrepreneurial Action -- Entrepreneurial Motivation for Sustaining Nature and/or Communities -- Entrepreneurial Motivation Toward Developing Society -- Health and Entrepreneurial Motivation -- Entrepreneurial Motivation and Others' Health -- Entrepreneurial Motivation and the Destruction of Nature -- Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy -- Perceived Industry Munificence.

Individual Values and Entrepreneurial Motivation -- Self-Enhancement -- Openness to Change -- Self-Transcendence -- Conservation -- Motivation to Persist with Entrepreneurial Action -- Personal Sunk Costs Driving Persistence -- Personal Self-Interest -- Personal Opportunities -- Norms for Consistency -- Prior Organizational Success -- Perceived Collective Efficacy -- Extrinsic Motivation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Attention and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Transient Attention and Opportunity Identification -- High Levels of Top-Down Attention Allocation and Recognizing Environmental Change -- Low Levels of Top-Down Attention Allocation (More Bottom-Up Processing) and Recognizing Environmental Change -- Managers' Task Demands and Top-Down Attention Allocation -- Knowledge Structure Complexity and Recognizing Environmental Change -- Attention Toward Early-Stage Exploration and Opportunity Evaluation Speed -- Experience and Managers' Attention -- Standard Operating Procedures and Managers' Attention -- Confidence and Manager's Attention -- Attention to Poorly Performing Entrepreneurial Projects -- Team Members' Attention and Project Termination -- Managers' Attention and Project Termination -- Metacognition to Focus Entrepreneurs' Attention -- Goal Orientation -- Metacognitive Knowledge -- Metacognitive Experience -- Metacognitive Choice -- Monitoring -- Learning to Think Metacognitively -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Entrepreneurial Identity -- Distinctiveness -- Belonging -- Optimal Distinctiveness Theory -- The Identity Distinctiveness of Entrepreneurial Individuals -- Entrepreneurs' Optimal Distinctiveness and Psychological Health -- Compartmentalization and Integration as Strategies for Micro-Identity Management -- Identity Boundaries, Identity Synergies, and Management Strategy -- Compartmentalization of Micro-Identities.

Integrating Micro-Identities -- Work Roles, Organizational Identification, and Disjunctive Transitions -- The First Step: Identity Foundation -- Trauma, Identity Change, and Entrepreneurial Career Motivations -- Competence Transference -- Entrepreneurship as a Means of Identity Play -- Hitting Rock Bottom and Realizing a Lost Identity -- Cognitive Deconstruction and Escaping Identity Loss -- Recovering from Identity Loss Through Identity Play -- Discipline Following Open Identity Play -- Identity Conflict in Family Firms and an Expedited Entrepreneurial Process -- Identity, Identity Conflict, and the Entrepreneurial Firm -- A Meta-Identity Perspective on the Family Business Role Identity -- Family, Business, Opportunities, and Identity Conflict -- Opportunities That Do Not Cause Identity Conflict -- Opportunities That Cause Identity Conflict Similar to the Past -- Opportunities That Cause Conflict Dissimilar to the Past -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Emotion and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Positive Emotions and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Harmonious Passion and Entrepreneurs' Opportunity Exploitation -- Obsessive Passion and Entrepreneurs' Opportunity Exploitation -- The Moderating Effect of Non-work-Related Excitement -- Managers' Emotional Displays and Employees' Willingness to Act Entrepreneurially -- Displays of Confidence -- Positive Emotional Displays -- Negative Emotional Displays -- The Moderating Role of Managers' Emotional Displays -- Negative Emotions, Affective Commitment, and Learning from Experience -- Entrepreneurial Project Failure and Negative Emotions -- Project Failure, Need for Competence, and Negative Emotions -- Project Failure, Need for Autonomy, and Negative Emotions -- Project Failure, Need for Relatedness, and Negative Emotions -- Negative Emotions and Learning from Project Failure.

Intelligent-Failure Management Through Normalization -- Coping Orientations and Project Failure -- Grief, Coping Self-Efficacy, and Subsequent Entrepreneurial Projects -- Self-Compassion, Negative Emotions, and Learning from Project Failure -- Self-Kindness, Negative Emotions, and Learning from Project Failure -- Common Humanity and Learning from Project Failure -- Mindfulness and Learning from Project Failure -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Motivation and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Attention and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Identity and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Emotion and Entrepreneurial Cognition -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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