Socially Situated Cognition: Imagining New Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Research

The attitudes, behaviors and cognition of entrepreneurs: rebels with a cause

“…Whether being extraordinarily alert to potential opportunities for profit (Kirzner, 1979), enacting completely new markets via pioneering technologies (Shane, 2000) or scratching together a new offering using the resources at hand (Baker and Nelson, 2006), entrepreneurs engage the world in ways that are often puzzling to observers. Part of this can be seen as the result of differences between observers and entrepreneurs in their socially situated cognition (Mitchell et al, 2011). These differences in how the entrepreneur interprets and understands the environment in which he or she is situated reflects the ingenuity of entrepreneurs.…”

“…Ucbasaran et al, 2001) to further develop an understanding of the interplay between mind, environment and action Mitchell et al, 2011;Shelton, 2010). Zhang and Chun's work within the immigrant entrepreneur community opens up additional avenues of research at the crossroads of identity and cognition.…”

“…In addition, we also encouraged scholars to submit papers that acknowledged the interplay between mind, environment and action Mitchell et al, 2011;Shelton, 2010) and to do so across multiple units of analysis such as the individual, team, organization and so on. A unique feature of this special issue was the developmental nature of the review process whereby authors received significant guidance as part of an IJEBR workshop at the 2017 USASBE conference.…”

Capturing Knowledge: Private Gains and Public Gains from University Research Partnerships

“…[Mitchell et al, 2007, p. 3], more recent research has been developing explanations that are interactive and contextualized [Mitchell et al, 2014b[Mitchell et al, , 2011b. Specifically, using the socially situated approach, this research focuses on the idea that the thinking that underlies entrepreneurship is not static but is dynamic: situated within specific people acting within a variety of active environments with varying degrees of distribution of such thinking across minds and tools [Mitchell et al, 2014a].…”

The co-construction of entrepreneurial sensemaking

“…The field of entrepreneurship has recognized the socially situated nature of cognitive processes and the effect of input of various stakeholders on them (Mitchel et al, 2011). Entrepreneurship literature recognizes the role of intersubjectivity in entrepreneurship (Davidsson, 2001;.…”