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Abstract 1. Introduction 1.1 What is action and how can it be understood? 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Structure of the thesis 2. Literature Review 2.1 Economic perspectives on entrepreneurial action 2.2 Entrepreneurship studies and entrepreneurial action 2.2.1 Behavioral approaches 2.2.2 Cognitive approaches 2.2.3 Discursive approaches 2.3 Summary 3. Methodology 3.1 Methodological assumptions 3.2 Methodological procedure 3.3 Limitations and validity 4. Extended Summaries 5. Discussion 5.1 Who am I? 5.2 What do I see? 5.3 What do I do? 5.3.1 Ego-involvement and detached rationality 5.3.2 Autonomy and openness 5.3.3 Short-term incrementalism and long-term focus 5.4 What are the effects? 6. Conclusions and suggestions 6.1 Theoretical implications 6.2 Methodological implications 6.3 Practical implications References You may also download the thesis as a pdf document. NB! In both the pdf and the html versions, some minor corrections have been included. |