Special track 5

SPECIAL SESSION TITLE: Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Behavior

TRACK PROPONENTS:

●   ANDREA CAPUTO, University of Trento, Italy & University of Lincoln, UK, dr.andreacaputo@gmail.com

●   MASSIMILIANO MATTEO PELLEGRINI, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, dr.massimiliano.pellegrini@gmail.com

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED SPECIAL SESSION TOPIC: There is a broad agreement that entrepreneurial decision-making is affected by cognitive aspects (Caputo et al., 2022; Mitchell et al., 2014), such as rationality-intuition (Baldacchino et al., 2022; Sassetti et al., 2022), biases (Caputo, 2013), values-beliefs and perspicacity (Fayolle, Liñán & Moriano, 2014; Pellegrini & Ciappei, 2015), intentions, metacognition (Bastian & Zucchella, 2022) as well as by well-being, emotions and passion (Cardon et al., 2012; Williamson et al., 2021). Specifically, entrepreneurs face conditions of high uncertainty, ambiguity, time pressure, and fluctuating levels of emotional intensity when making decisions. Similar circumstances apply when entrepreneurs negotiate to mobilize stakeholders and manage conflicts (Caputo et al., 2018). As a successful answer to today’s business environment, it is crucial to understand how entrepreneurs make decisions for their businesses and their careers (Dabić et al., 2021). This track welcomes multidisciplinary investigations that are theoretical, experimental, qualitative, or quantitative.

ACCEPTABLE RESEARCH TOPICS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

●   the underlying cognitive mechanisms of entrepreneurial decisions and their effectiveness

●   the influence of rationality and intuition on entrepreneurial decisions and behaviors

●   the ways on which cognitive aspects influence (or are influenced by) the environmental context

●   the heuristics impact on collective decisions

●   the cognitive strategies for coping with different degrees of uncertainty

●   the critical perspectives of current decision-making models, and the ways on which these perspectives can be problematized to provide new theoretical insights

●   the links between entrepreneurship and negotiation

●   the role of conflict management in fostering creativity and innovation in SMEs, family businesses, and start-ups

●   the ways on which cognitive biases impact entrepreneurial decisions, and strategies for overcoming these

●   the new perspectives on entrepreneurial intention models

●   the ways on which emotional aspects and passion impact the success/failure

●   the roles of well-being, emotions, trust, and fairness on entrepreneurial decision-making

●   the impacts of sense-making, effectuation, metacognition, scientific thinking and experimentation on cognition and decisions

●   the antecedents to sustainable entrepreneurial decisions

●   the reasons for starting a firm in different contexts and by different sub-groups of entrepreneurs (e.g., seniors or persons with disability)

●   the impacts of spirituality or perspicacity on entrepreneurs’ behaviors

●   the impacts of diversity, alignment values and team cognition on group decision-making