ENT 527 Class 2 – The Field of Entrepreneurship

• ✔ Podsakoff, P. M. and D. W. Organ (1986). “Self-reports in organizational research: Problems and prospects.” (C)
• ✔ Podsakoff, P. M., S. B. MacKenzie, et al. (2003). “Common method biases in behavioural research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.” (C)
• ✔ Venkataraman, S. (1997). “The distinctive domain of entrepreneurship research.” (A)
• ✔ Shane, S. and S. Venkataraman (2000). “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research.” (A)

Class 3 – Economics

• ✔ Gedeon, S. (2007). “A lexicon of entrepreneurship.” (B)
• ✔ Baumol, W. J. (1990). “Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive and destructive.” (A)
• ✔ Kirzner, I. (1997). “Entrepreneurial discovery and the competitive market process: An Austrian approach.” (C)

Class 5 – Psychology and Bias

• ✔ Kahneman, D. and A. Tversky (1979). “Prospect theory: Analysis of decision under risk.” (A)
• ✔ Baron, R. A. (1998). “Cognitive mechanisms in entrepreneurship: Why and when entrepreneurs think differently than other people.” (B)
• ✔ Ciavarella, M. A., A. K. Buchholtz, et al. (2004). “The big five and venture survival: Is there a linkage?” (B)

Class 6 – Where Opportunities Come From

• ✔ Shane, S. (2000). “Prior knowledge and the discovery of entrepreneurial opportunities.” (A)
• ✔ Gaglio, C. M. and J. A. Katz (2001). “The psychological basis of opportunity identification: Entrepreneurial alertness.” (C)
• ✔ Sarasvathy, S. (2001). “Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevitability to entrepreneurial contingency.” (A)

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Class 8 – Where Entrepreneurs Come From

• ✔ Gartner, W. B. (1989). “‘Who is an entrepreneur?’ is the wrong question.” (A)
• ✔ Krueger, N. F., M. Reilly, et al (2000). “Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions.” (B)
• ✔ Amit, R., E. Mueller, et al (1995). “Opportunity costs and entrepreneurial activity.” (C)
• ✔ Thompson, J., G. Alvy, et al. (2000). “Social entrepreneurship: A new look at the people and the potential.” (B)

Class 9 – Risk and Uncertainty

• ✔ Simon, M., S. M. Houghton, et al. (1999). “Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies.” (A)
• ✔ Palich, L. E. and D. R. Bagby (1995). “Using cognitive theory to explain entrepreneurial risk-taking: Challenging conventional wisdom.” (A)
• ✔ Sarasvathy, D., H. Simon, et al (1998). “Perceiving and managing business risks: Differences between entrepreneurs and bankers.” (B)
• ✔ McGrath, R. G. (1999). “Falling forward: Real options reasoning and entrepreneurial failure.” (B)

Class 10 – Resources, Decision to Exploit

• ✔ Barney, J. B. (2001). “The resource-based view of the firm: Ten years after.” (A)
• ✔ Specht, P. H. (1993). “Munificence and carrying capacity of the environment and organizational carrying capacity.” (B)
• ✔ Eisenhardt, K. (1989). “Agency theory: An assessment and review.” (A)
• Hayton, J. C., G. George, et al. (2002). “National culture and entrepreneurship: A review of behavioral research.” (C)

Class 11 – Information Economics

• ✔ Akerlof, G. A. (1970). “The market for lemons: Quality uncertainty and the market mechanism.” (A)
• ✔ Spence, M. (1973). “Job market signaling.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 87(3): 355-374. (A)
• Deutsch, Y. and T. W. Ross (2003). “You are known by the directors you keep: Reputable directors as a signaling mechanism for young firms.” (C)

Class 12 – Communications

• Strunk, W. and E. B. White, (1918) “The Elements of Style.” (A)