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8. Context and Entrepreneurial Cognition

Authors : Simone Chlosta, Friederike Welter

Published in: Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

That was the pivotal question we asked entrepreneurship researchers in a recent workshop about the future of entrepreneurship (research). Interestingly, it seemed to be a difficult question as many participants realized that their attempts to explain context fell short. Some examples were “silicon valley context,” “social context,” “business context,” and also “age and experience of the entrepreneur” or, more to the theme of this book: “context influences how we see the world” and “context is something internal.”

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Title: Context and Entrepreneurial Cognition
Authors: Simone Chlosta
Friederike Welter
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-45543-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-45544-0

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45544-0_8