Entrepreneurial Intentions Are Dead: Long Live Entrepreneurial Intentions

Norris Krueger ()

Chapter Chapter 2 in Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind, 2017, pp 13-34 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Short of studying actual new venture launches, what could possibly be more potent than understanding the preconditions that enable entrepreneurial activity? Early research focused unsurprisingly on behavior (the “what?” and the “how?” even somewhat the “where?” and the “when?”) and since entrepreneurs were obviously special people, on the entrepreneurial person (the “who?”). Intentions are classically defined as the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to action (e.g., The intentional stance, Cambridge, 1989; Entrep Theory Pract 24:5–23, 2000). Here that translates to the working definition of the cognitive state temporally and causally prior to the decision to start a business. The field has adopted and adapted formal models of entrepreneurial intentions that are based on strong, widely accepted theory and whose results appear not only empirically robust but of great practical value. But do we have what we think we have? Or have we also opened the door to a much broader range of questions that will advance our theoretical understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs? We offer here a glimpse of the remarkably wide array of fascinating questions for entrepreneurship scholars.

Keywords: Plan Behavior; Implementation Intention; Entrepreneurial Intention; Entrepreneurial Behavior; Reciprocal Causation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45544-0_2

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