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- Title
Emotional paths leading to opportunity desirability and feasibility beliefs through controllability.
- Authors
Ivanova, Stela; Treffers, Theresa; Langerak, Fred
- Abstract
Extant studies promote opportunity belief as an antecedent of entrepreneurial action. However, we do not sufficiently understand how beliefs about the desirability and feasibility of an entrepreneurial opportunity are formed. We argue that desirability and feasibility are related but distinct micro-foundations of entrepreneurial action formed through different cognitive-emotional mechanisms. Drawing on the appraisal tendency framework, we investigate the indirect effects of three basic emotions (anger, fear and happiness) on desirability and feasibility through the appraisal tendency of controllability. In an experimental study (N = 191), we find evidence for the distinctiveness and interconnectedness of desirability and feasibility beliefs. In addition, our findings show that desirability can be predicted by emotions through controllability, but we cannot predict feasibility through the same appraisal process. Our study seeks insights concerning how desirability and feasibility beliefs regarding an entrepreneurial opportunity are distinctively formed based on the inner cognitive and emotional processes of individuals.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; FEASIBILITY studies; COGNITIVE ability; INDUSTRIAL psychology
- Publication
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2018, Vol 36, Issue 5, p546
- ISSN
0266-2426
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0266242617751596