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Andrew C. Corbett is the Paul T. Babson Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He is also a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Nord University in Bodo, Norway.
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Researchers have widely acknowledged entrepreneurial alertness (EA) as one of the most influential aspects of the key concept of opportunity recognition. Systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis have demonstrated quite unambiguously that alertness leads to entrepreneurial actions, which facilitates the overall entrepreneurial process. In thi...
Entrepreneurial leadership (EL) to date has not been differentiated from other contingency theories of leadership. We offer a conceptual model of EL to explain the motivational dynamics that enable collaborative action between leader and follower to recognize and pursue entrepreneurial opportunity. Drawing on self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan,...
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Internal corporate venturing is a vehicle for firms to realize strategic and financial goals through entrepreneurial ventures. Prior research presents a strategic process in which individual managers make rational choices based on their formal roles and top-down corporate objectives. Recent work has challenged this by adopting a relational...
Negative experiences are pervasive and consequential in entrepreneurship: on the one hand, they have the potential to unlock higher-order learning; on the other, they can lead an entrepreneur to retreat. This presents a tension for experiential entrepreneurship education: how to expose students to negative experiences to promote their learning whil...
In response to a need for improved training of business school teaching, this research explores US doctoral programs in management and finds a need to purposefully embed scaffolding—the process of gradually enabling the doctoral student to take on more challenging aspects of teaching—into doctoral program design. We also recommend a more influentia...
This paper applies a supply-side perspective to entrepreneurship education research and explores the socialization process for students in entrepreneurship doctoral programs in the United States (US). It presents the challenges facing higher education regarding how academia prepares future professors to teach. The paper proceeds to build a new mode...
Purpose: Prior research has theorised that entrepreneurs use deliberate practice (DP) in the start-up process to improve their competences and achieve new venture success. However, does DP truly lead to an increase in entrepreneurial expertise? This article advances the understanding of DP for entrepreneurship scholars by answering the following qu...
Opportunities can be fleeting due to competitive factors or changes in markets and customer preferences; as such, speed matters. However, few studies have looked at the issue of how quickly entrepreneurial opportunities are developed, particularly with a focus on how the learning behaviors of entrepreneurs influence opportunity development speed du...
This article describes how the entrepreneurial mindset is comprised of two predominant orientations, one toward finding and selecting potential solutions, the other focused on implementation and execution of these solutions. We explore this duality of the entrepreneurial mindset and note its role in moving forward the field’s understanding of this...
The primary purpose of our whitepaper is to make strategic recommendations for growing the ecosystem of benefit corporations in the State of Alabama. We begin by highlighting the necessity of benefit corporations, and briefly reviewing their history and national growth trends. We highlight how other states and regions have been successful in growin...
In this introductory article for the special issue of Journal of Management Studies, entitled ‘Leading Entrepreneurial Ventures: Individual and Team‐Based Perspectives’, we leverage insights in the extant literature as well as those insights developed by the authors of the four articles published in response to our call for papers. Overall, we expl...
This study investigates how regional variations in institutions and knowledge pools impact new firm entry into emerging industry sectors. Using the cleantech industry sector as a research context, we hypothesize and find that supportive regional institutional logics – shared meaning systems in a community that confer legitimacy upon particular goal...
Entrepreneurship education (EE) research is not advancing as fast as general entrepreneurship because it is not subject to the same level of scholarship. Grounded in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning from the field of adult education and using an expert Delphi Panel approach, we offer a glimpse into the minds of top entrepreneurship educator...
Entrepreneurship ecosystems have become ubiquitous in the discussions around economic growth and new venture creation. Despite growing scholarly interest, however, the theoretical and conceptual foundations are still rudimentary, causing much debate among researchers and practitioners. At the center of these debates are questions like What are the...
Research on organizational signalling tends to focus on the effects of isolated or congruent signals, assuming highly rational responses to those signals. In this study, we theorize about the cognitive processes associated with the attention paid to and interpretation of multiple, often incongruent signals that organizations send to consumers, fina...
It is argued that the predominant cognitive perspective among entrepreneurs and related stakeholders is to focus on start-ups and that this mental representation affects the development of the high-and rapid-growth ventures that policy makers hope for their programs and regions. With a desire in most localities to drive economic growth, we need to...
Managers and management scholars have traditionally embraced the premise that sustainable competitive advantage must be developed by firms to achieve and perpetuate competitive superiority. Additionally, strategic entrepreneurship as part of the CE construct recognizes not only the disruptive aspect of Schumpeterian innovation, but also the generat...
Previous research indicates that improvisation—the deliberate extemporaneous composition and execution of novel action—is a key form of entrepreneurial behavior. It has been argued, however, that entrepreneurs’ improvisational behavior does not necessarily result in performance gains for their firms. Instead, a contingency perspective suggests that...
Despite its many achievements, scholarship at the intersection of entrepreneurship and cognition has focused primarily on the consequences of what happens when an entrepreneur benefits from various cognitive characteristics, resources, or other dispositions. As such, cognitive research in entrepreneurship continues to suffer from narrow theoretical...
The study contributes to the family business literature by examining the intersection of succession and opportunities and extends an existing line of research on entrepreneurial behavior in family firms by examining opportunity perception by 119 family business successors. The authors investigate the successors’ self-efficacy, education, and work e...
The growth of entrepreneurship education is rising internationally and may have already reached a level of maturity in the USA. Despite the increase in the number of courses offered, programmes created, and degrees granted, scholarship that researches entrepreneurship education suggests that problems still run deep regarding the content that is bei...
While previous studies examining the internationalization of venture capital investment have provided great insight into the framework condutions that provide the context for international investment, the literature currently provides few answers for how and why venture capital firms might engage in cross-border investment, or what mechanisms suppo...
Managers shape the evolutionary fitness of their firm by orchestrating firm assets to positively affect their firm’s dynamic capabilities. The extant literature emphasizes the important role of managerial cognitions to a firm’s dynamic capabilities but little attention is given to the linkages. This study explores the role of managerial cognition i...
Large companies say they Create Three Distinct want to be Career Paths for Innovators innovative, but they fundamentally mismanage their talent. Expecting innovators to grow along with their projects-from discovery to incubation to acceleration--sets them up to fail. Most people excel at one of the phases, not all three. By allowing innovation empl...
Studies that examine cognition imply that entrepreneurs think differently than other people: most often these studies have suggested that entrepreneurs think in a way that is distinct from managers in large corporations. Furthermore, patterns found in cognition research suggest that entrepreneurs think the same when considering whether to start a n...
The article discusses succession in family owned business enterprises. The U.S. economy has 57% of employment numbers added by family owned businesses although it is reported that a third of these businesses last past the second generation. Family businesses include those controlled by members of the same family or a number of families which is sus...
Although improvisation is often considered to be an elemental component of entrepreneurship, little work has been done to evaluate factors that influence the relationship of entrepreneur improvisational behavior with important outcome variables. In an attempt to partly fill this gap, the current study examines the moderating effect of entrepreneuri...
Through a parallel examination of literatures on new product development termination and entrepreneurial cognition, this study explores a specific form of human capital development: learning from failure. Specifically we advance the literature on entrepreneurial human capital by linking cognitive scripts used by corporate entrepreneurs in project t...
The growth of young, technology-based firms has received considerable attention in the literature given their importance for the generation and creation of economic wealth. Taking a strategic management perspective, we link the entrepreneurial strategy deployed by young, technology-based firms with firm growth. In line with recent research, we cons...
Research in the entrepreneurial cognition domain has demonstrated that entrepreneurs tend to draw from similar sets of event schemas when considering to start a new venture. The social cognition literature also explains that role schemas affect how individuals encode, process, and use information. In this article, we examine the interplay and diver...
This study examines the relationship between improvisation and entrepreneurial intentions. Of specific interest is whether or not a proclivity for improvisation explains any variance in entrepreneurial intentions beyond what is accounted for by other relevant individual difference measures. Using a sample of 430 college students, entrepreneurial in...
Research in the entrepreneurial cognition domain has demonstrated that, regardless of nationality and culture, entrepreneurs tend to draw from similar sets of mental scripts when considering whether to start a new venture. A parallel line of research suggests that corporate entrepreneurs, those individuals charged with creating new ventures within...
The article uses experiential learning theory to magnify the importance of learning within the process of entrepreneurship. Previous research details the contributions of prior knowledge, creativity, and cognitive mechanisms to the process of opportunity identification and exploitation; however, the literature is devoid of work that directly addres...
This paper reports the results of a two-phase study that explores new venture creation within the context of an entrepreneurial system. First, a genealogy of high-technology companies is presented depicting a high spin-off rate resulting from the presence of seven incubator organizations. Second, semantic structure analysis (Spradley 1980) based on...
Resent research suggests that improvisation is a prevalent and important form of action that takes place throughout the entrepreneurial process (Baker, Miner, & Eesley, 2003). Despite the central role that improvisation appears to play in the daily decisions of entrepreneurs, there is a lack of theoretical work on the topic within the entrepreneurs...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Colorado, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-166).
What has been the contribution of entrepreneurship research that adopted a cognitive perspective? To explore this question, we content-analyze a corpus of 156 entrepreneurship cognition articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 1976 and 2008.
Corporate entrepreneurs and managers shape the evolutionary fitness of their firm by orchestrating firm assets to positively affect their firm’s dynamic capabilities. The extant literature emphasizes the important role of managerial cognitions to a firm’s dynamic capabilities but little attention is given to the linkages. This study explores the ro...
