Inside the mind of the entrepreneur : cognition, personality traits, intention, and gender behavior

Annotation 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-vi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 An Integrated Model of Intentional Entrepreneurial Action (Kevin C. Cox, Jason Lortie, Gary Castrogiovanni)....Pages 3-15 Measuring and Understanding the Psychological Effects of Entrepreneurial Intentions: Multigroup Analysis (João J. Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes, Mário L. Raposo)....Pages 17-31 Why Would You Ever Want to Become An Academic Entrepreneur? (Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech, Inés Alegre)....Pages 33-45 The Relation Between Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Entrepreneurship Rates Over Time: An Approach Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Paulo Ferreira, Andreia Dionísio)....Pages 47-58 Entrepreneurship Under Risk and Uncertainty: A Review of the Experimental Evidence (Konstantinos Georgalos)....Pages 59-74 Sensing and Generating New Opportunities for Value Innovation: How Team Behaviour Contributes to Success or to Failure? (Tomás F. González-Cruz, Clara M. Martínez-Fuentes)....Pages 75-88 Front Matter ....Pages 89-89 The Role of the Entrepreneurial Personality in New Ventures (Xuemei Xie, Jiuchang Lv, Yuchen Xu)....Pages 91-108 Intrapreneurs: Characteristics and Behavior (Antonia Mohedano-Suanes, Dolores Garzón Benítez)....Pages 109-119 Can Women Entrepreneurs Plan to Prosper? Exploring the Role of Gender as a Moderator of the Planning-Performance Relationship (Whitney O. Peake, William C. McDowell, Michael L. Harris, Phillip E. Davis)....Pages 121-133 The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship in Coworking-Spaces (Ricarda B. Bouncken, Mahmood M. Aslam, Andreas J. Reuschl)....Pages 135-147 Gender Behavioral Issues and Entrepreneurship (Irene Comeig, Marc Lurbe)....Pages 149-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Systems Approach to Entrepreneurial Success: The Theoretical Discussion on the Significance of Family Factors for Effective Entrepreneurship (Marcin W. Staniewski, Katarzyna Awruk)....Pages 163-174 Personality Traits of the Partners and Performance in the Franchise Agreement (Esther Calderon-Monge)....Pages 175-184 The Importance of Empowerment in Entrepreneurship (Daniel Henao-Zapata, José M. Peiró)....Pages 185-206 Leadership Styles and Entrepreneurship (Hugo De Juan Jordán, Daniel Palacios-Marqués, Carlos Devece)....Pages 207-218 Co-operation and Conflict in International Entrepreneurs When Cultures Collide (Ursula F. Ott)....Pages 219-233