Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality

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dc.contributor.authorHunt, Richard A.en
dc.contributor.authorLerner, Daniel A.en
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Sheri L.en
dc.contributor.authorBadal, Sangeetaen
dc.contributor.authorFreeman, Michael A.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-17T12:48:55Zen
dc.date.available2022-06-17T12:48:55Zen
dc.date.issued2022-05en
dc.description.abstractEntrepreneurship scholarship finds itself in something of a quandary concerning rationality. While an increasingly large body of empirical work has found evidence of less-deliberative and even impulsive drivers of business venturing, the dominant theories of entrepreneurial action remain anchored to the assumption that intended rationality is a defining attribute of entrepreneurship. The growing schism between entrepreneurial action theory (EAT) on the one hand, and empirics and practice on the other hand, represents a consequential and exciting opportunity for the field to revisit its core assumptions regarding rationality, particularly the presence, role, and function of rational intentionality. In this study, we undertake a review and exploratory investigation of the assertion that without reasoned intentionality there is no entrepreneurship. Our work generates three important insights that contribute to rethinking key facets of the most prominent and influential EATs: alternative, non-rational pathways to business venturing exist with a non-ignorable prevalence; a proclivity towards reasoned intentionality is not invariably prescriptive; and, less-reasoned, less-deliberative tendencies do not constitute an entrepreneurial death sentence. Rather, entrepreneurs (including highly successful ones) embody a shifting blend of rational and non-rational proclivities, motivations, decisions, and actions.en
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106190en
dc.identifier.eissn1873-2003en
dc.identifier.issn0883-9026en
dc.identifier.issue3en
dc.identifier.other106190en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/110826en
dc.identifier.volume37en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectrationalityen
dc.subjectnon-rationalityen
dc.subjectimpulse-driven logicsen
dc.subjectnon-deliberative pathwaysen
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial Actionen
dc.subjectentrepreneurial action theoryen
dc.subjectneurodiversityen
dc.subjectADHDen
dc.subjecthypomaniaen
dc.subjectimpulsivityen
dc.subjectmental healthen
dc.subjectentrepreneurshipen
dc.titleCracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationalityen
dc.title.serialJournal of Business Venturingen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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