Robert A. Baron

40 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0779-8751

Publications

• Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue — Journal of Business Venturing 2023
• Bribes as entrepreneurial actions: Why underdog entrepreneurs feel compelled to use them — Journal of Business Venturing 2018
• Self-efficacy and entrepreneurs' adoption of unattainable goals: The restraining effects of self-control — Journal of Business Venturing 2016
• Why Entrepreneurs Often Experience Low, Not High, Levels of Stress — Journal of Management 2016
• A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations — Journal of Management 2015
• Bringing Political Skill into Social Networks: Findings from a Field Study of Entrepreneurs — Journal of Management Studies 2015
• Integrating Discovery and Creation Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Action: The Relative Roles of Founding CEO Human Capital, Social Capital, and Psychological Capital in Contexts of Risk Versus Uncertainty — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2015
• Personal Motives, Moral Disengagement, and Unethical Decisions by Entrepreneurs: Cognitive Mechanisms on the “Slippery Slope” — Journal of Business Ethics 2015
• “I Care about Nature, but …”: Disengaging Values in Assessing Opportunities that Cause Harm — Academy of Management Journal 2013
• Entrepreneurs’ Improvisational Behavior and Firm Performance: A Study of Dispositional and Environmental Moderators — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2013
• Entrepreneurship in Innovation Ecosystems: Entrepreneurs’ Self–Regulatory Processes and Their Implications for New Venture Success — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2013
• Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” — Journal of Business Venturing 2012
• Shared Authentic Leadership and New Venture Performance — Journal of Management 2012
• The role of entrepreneurs in firm-level innovation: Joint effects of positive affect, creativity, and environmental dynamism — Journal of Business Venturing 2011
• The downside of being ‘up’: entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect and firm performance — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2011
• How entrepreneurs acquire the capacity to excel: insights from research on expert performance — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2010
• Different Roles, Different Strokes: Organizing Virtual Customer Environments to Promote Two Types of Customer Contributions — Organization Science 2010
• Entrepreneurs' Optimism And New Venture Performance: A Social Cognitive Perspective — Academy of Management Journal 2009
• Entrepreneurs' Social Skills and New Venture Performance: Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Generality — Journal of Management 2009
• Effectual versus predictive logics in entrepreneurial decision making: Differences between experts and novices: Does experience in starting new ventures change the way entrepreneurs think? Perhaps, but for now, “Caution” is essential — Journal of Business Venturing 2009
• When does entrepreneurial self-efficacy enhance versus reduce firm performance? — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2008
• Regulatory focus and new venture performance: A study of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation under conditions of risk versus uncertainty — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2008
• The Role of Affect in the Entrepreneurial Process — Academy of Management Review 2008
• Influence of Founder—CEOs' Personal Values on Firm Performance: Moderating Effects of Firm Age and Size† — Journal of Management 2007
• Behavioral and cognitive factors in entrepreneurship: entrepreneurs as the active element in new venture creation — Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2007
• Social sources of information in opportunity recognition: Effects of mentors, industry networks, and professional forums — Journal of Business Venturing 2007
• Opportunity Recognition as the Detection of Meaningful Patterns: Evidence from Comparisons of Novice and Experienced Entrepreneurs — Management Science 2006
• Expanding Entrepreneurial Cognition's Toolbox: Potential Contributions from the Field of Cognitive Science — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2004
• Potential benefits of the cognitive perspective: expanding entrepreneurship's array of conceptual tools — Journal of Business Venturing 2004
• The cognitive perspective: a valuable tool for answering entrepreneurship's basic “why” questions — Journal of Business Venturing 2004
• Beyond social capital: the role of entrepreneurs' social competence in their financial success — Journal of Business Venturing 2003
• VCs' decision processes — Journal of Business Venturing 2003
• Inventors and New Venture Formation: the Effects of General Self–Efficacy and Regretful Thinking — Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 2003
• The Impact of Community Violence and an Organization's Procedural Justice Climate on Workplace Aggression — Academy of Management Journal 2003
• Counterfactual thinking and venture formation — Journal of Business Venturing 2000
• Workplace Violence and Workplace Aggression: Evidence Concerning Specific Forms, Potential Causes, and Preferred Targets — Journal of Management 1998
• Cognitive mechanisms in entrepreneurship — Journal of Business Venturing 1998
• Personality and organizational conflict: Effects of the type a behavior pattern and self-monitoring — Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1989
• Attributions and organizational conflict: The mediating role of apparent sincerity — Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1988
• A Systems Analysis of a University-Health-Service Outpatient Clinic — Operations Research 1973