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The chapters in The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics provide the rationale for questionnaires used in the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED). The PSED is a research program that was initiated to provide systematic, reliable, and generalizable data on important features of the new business creation process. The PSED includes information on the proportion and characteristics of the adult population involved in efforts to start businesses, the activities and characteristics that comprise the nature of the business start-up process, and the proportion and characteristics of those business start-up efforts that actually become new businesses. The handbook also describes the PSED data collection process; provides documentation of the interview schedules, codebooks, data preparation and weighting scheme; as well as offers examples of how analyses of PSED data might be conducted. The authors identify specific measures that can be used to operationalize theory as well as provide evidence from the PSED data sets on these measures’ reliability and validity.
Decision-Making (Innovator/Adaptor) Style
Decision-Making (Innovator/Adaptor) Style
Cognitive style refers to “consistent individual differences in preferred ways of organizing and processing information and experience” (Messick, 1976, p. 5). In addition to individual differences in perceptions, thinking, learning, and problem solving, cognitive style includes how we relate to others (Witkin, Moore, Goodenough, & Cox, 1977). Differences in cognitive style may then also influence the nature of our relationships, which is particularly important given the tendency to think of the entrepreneur as an individual. After all, we speak of management teams, boards of directors, but only the sole entrepreneur. However, rarely does an entrepreneur initiate a new venture entirely alone without interaction. Businesses do not exist in isolation, nor does the entrepreneur, who may engage a ...
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