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

Corbett, Andrew C.; Mitchell, Rob; Shelton, Lois M.; Wood, Matthew

doi:10.1108/ijebr-08-2018-530

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“…This is demonstrated in the unique combination of artistic creative entrepreneurship with social entrepreneurship to produce a form of lifestyle entrepreneurship (Ateljevic and Doorne, 2000). This example serves as a reminder to both scholars and aspiring entrepreneurs that the essence of entrepreneurship is to have the passion and courage to be innovative and disruptive, and is far more than merely managing an enterprise (Carland et al , 1984; Corbett et al , 2018; Murnieks and Mosakowski, 2007; Schumpeter, 1934). It is also a reminder that the development of entrepreneurs should involve cultivating those skills that are related to identifying and exploiting opportunities for innovative disruption (Edwards-Schachter et al , 2015; Tiago et al , 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, these behavioural characteristics of risk taking and innovation differentiate entrepreneurs from small business owners (Carland et al , 1984). Illustrative of these characteristics, some entrepreneurs have been referred to as “rebels with a cause” because they are “are revolutionary in their thinking and transformative in their actions” (Corbett et al , 2018, p. 939). While it was once assumed that entrepreneurs had an identity that was distinct from, e.g.…”

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Artistic creative social entrepreneurs and business model innovation

Pearse

Peterlin

2019

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Purpose From the perspective of role identity theory, the purpose of this paper is to explain how an artistic creative entrepreneur has set up and operates a business that incorporates a component of social responsibility into the business model. Design/methodology/approach An explanatory case study approach was followed in analysing the case of Alenka Repic, the founder and creative director of the company Kaaita, which operates from Slovenia. Data were collected through documentation and interviews and content analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings Kaaita has adopted an innovative and socially responsible business model as an artistic creative enterprise. The case study firstly introduces Kaaita and its innovative business model. Thereafter, it describes and discusses the defining roles of Alenka Repic as an entrepreneur and how these roles have shaped what Kaaita does and how it operates. Research limitations/implications This explanatory case study has presented the unique case of an artistic creative social entrepreneur, and the innovative business model that has been adopted. However, because only one case has been presented here, it is recommended that additional case studies be conducted. It is also recommended that additional research be conducted in the area of sustainable business model innovation. Practical implications The case illustrates how a more deliberate consideration of their role identity could assist entrepreneurs in aligning their personal values and beliefs with how they create, operate and develop their enterprise. It also serves as a reminder to both scholars and aspiring entrepreneurs that the essence of entrepreneurship is to have the passion and courage to be innovative and disruptive and that educators should focus on cultivating skills that are related to identifying and exploiting opportunities for innovative disruption. Originality/value The study draws on role identity theory to gain insight into the roles that are exercised in developing an innovative business model that combines diverse types of entrepreneurship.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Artistic creative social entrepreneurs and business model innovation

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Peterlin

2019

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“…In cognitive theory, "people motivate themselves and guide their actions anticipatory through Entrepreneurial alertness, self-efficacy the exercise of forethought which is intentional" (Bandura, 1997, p. 14). This connection between cognitions and intentions is important considering that social entrepreneurs act as change agents and where at the basis of "their ability to act as such lies with their cognition" (Corbett et al, 2018;Muñoz, 2018).…”

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“…Yitshaki and Kropp's (2016) study shows that social entrepreneurs discover new opportunities based on idiosyncratic life experiences and prior knowledge that creates an ability to recognise opportunities that others might miss (Shane, 2000). Consequently, focusing on DSOP and EA as cognitive enhancers to SE intentions may prove valuable as recent research suggests that social entrepreneurs may help transform the world and where at the foundation of their ability to do so lies with their cognition (Corbett et al, 2018;Muñoz, 2018).…”

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Entrepreneurial alertness, self-efficacy and social entrepreneurship intentions

Urban

2020

JSBED

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PurposeConsidering that many unanswered questions remain regarding the antecedents to entrepreneurial intentions, the purpose of this study is to develop insights from existing theories in entrepreneurship frameworks and apply these in the social entrepreneurship context. Consequently the study examines to what extant beliefs and cognitions shape social entrepreneurial intentions.Design/methodology/approachHypotheses were statistically tested using multiple regression analyses based on survey data (n = 156) from individuals in South Africa.FindingsResults support the hypotheses where entrepreneurial alertness significantly explained social entrepreneurial intentions, while self-efficacy showed a positive mediating effect in this relationship.Practical implicationsPolicymakers encouraging social entrepreneurship should not only focus on external support factors such as financial support but also deliberately develop interventions by focusing on beliefs and cognitions, which the study has identified as important predictors of social entrepreneurship intentions.Originality/valueBy introducing previously unrelated individual-level factors to social entrepreneurship, closer empirical links are created between these factors in this study.

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“…Macroeconomic variables, as predictors of business failure, were initially used by Foster (1986) and Rose et al (1982). Another stream of research has focused on characteristics of entrepreneurs such as gender (Fellnhofer et al, 2016) attitudes or behaviours (Corbett et al, 2018), lack of training (Azeez Olugbola, 2017, obsessive entrepreneurial passion (Fisher et al, 2018), the evolution of the cross-generational culture within a company (Scuotto et al, 2017), social proactiveness and innovation (Goldsby et al, 2018) or overconfidence (Simon and Kim, 2017) as determinants of business failure.…”

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Contingency factors and entrepreneurship: influence in business activity

Cabrer-Borrás¹,

Belda²,

Botella-Carrubí³

2019

IJEBR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the survival of Spanish companies. Design/methodology/approach Two approaches are used and they are complementary. The first approach analyses the determinants of survival probability. For this purpose, a binary choice model is built and estimated using a sample of companies from the main economic sectors taken from the SABI database. Likewise, the Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition is applied to quantify the difference between companies with employees and without employees and the proportion of this difference that owes to observed factors or unobserved factors. Finally, the second approach is a survival analysis carried out through the Cox proportional hazard model that identifies the determinants of the duration of business activity. Findings The results of the empirical analysis show that companies without employees present less favourable conditions for survival at all stages of their evolution than companies with employees. Originality/value The contribution of this study to the empirical literature consists in analysing the difference between companies with and without employees. Due to the structure of Spanish companies, this aspect and the determinants of such difference are essential for policymakers to increase the survival for companies.

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

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Artistic creative social entrepreneurs and business model innovation

Artistic creative social entrepreneurs and business model innovation

Entrepreneurial alertness, self-efficacy and social entrepreneurship intentions

Contingency factors and entrepreneurship: influence in business activity

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