The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118970720
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2017-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

Recommendations for Researching Entrepreneurial Tendencies

Based on the arguments presented above, we believe it is important to establish a framework for characterizing and researching individual differences in entrepreneurial tendencies. In our view, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of such tendencies requires measurement at the psychological (i.e., cognitive/affective), the behavioral (both general and contextual), and the output (i.e., performance) level, as well as consideration of relevant contextual factors.

Above, we have theoretically placed entrepreneurial tendencies along other psychological constructs. As such, a different set of research questions is generated, requiring different research designs to those more commonly found in current entrepreneurship research (e.g., Baum et al., 2007). Below we offer some recommendations as to the approaches that may be suitable for further investigation. We do not promote a particular assessment strategy, nor advocate a particular theory. Rather, our recommendations roughly follow a standard research approach to psychological constructs within the individual differences framework, which comprises three critical questions:

How do we assess entrepreneurial tendencies?

How do entrepreneurial tendencies manifest in contextual behavior?

How do entrepreneurial tendencies (and contextual behavior) manifest in entrepreneurial output?

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