Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Entrepreneurship as an area of psychology study : an introduction / J. Robert Baum ... [et al.] -- Entrepreneurship : a process perspective / Robert A. Baron -- Born to be an entrepreneur? Revisiting the personality approach to entrepreneurship / Andreas Rauch and Michael Frese -- Entrepreneurs' competencies / Gideon D. Markman -- Entrepreneurial motivation / Edwin A. Locke and J. Robert Baum -- Entrepreneurs as organizational products revisited / Pino G. Audia and Christopher I. Rider -- Cognition and capabilities in entrepreneurial ventures / Lowell W. Busenitz and Jonathan D. Arthurs -- The psychological actions and entrepreneurial success : an action theory approach / Michael Frese -- Entrepreneurship and leadership / John Antonakis and Erkko Autio -- Education and training in entrepreneurship / Jerome A. Katz -- Intrapreneurship and innovation / G. Tom Lumpkin -- Cross-cultural entrepreneurship : the case of China / Rosalie L. Tung, Jan Walls, and Michael Frese -- Method challenges and opportunities in the psychological study of entrepreneurship / Per Davidsson -- Psychology, entrepreneurship, and the "critical mess" / William B. Gartner -- C2D2 : psychological methods in entrepreneurship research / Kelly G. Shaver -- Research gains : benefits of closer links between I/O psychology and entrepreneurship / Robert A. Baron, Michael Frese, and J. Robert Baum.

"Despite 40 years of entrepreneurship research, little has been learned about the personal characteristics of entrepreneurship. Recently, a cohort of psychology-based researchers began to search for individual differences that cause entrepreneurship. The researchers have successfully begun to uncover competencies, cognitions, and behaviors that impact new venture creation and success. The fresh entrepreneurship psychology research included here presents opportunities for a new generation of psychology-based entrepreneurship researchers." "The Psychology of Entrepreneurship, a volume in the SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series, is the first book written about the psychology of entrepreneurship. It includes more than 60 research questions to guide industrial organizational psychology researchers, organizational behavior researchers, and entrepreneurship researchers about entrepreneurs." "This book will appeal to teachers, students, and researchers in the areas of industrial organizational psychology, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, and management. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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