Entrepreneurial Mentality: From the Way of Thinking to the Way of Acting of The Entrepreneur

• Autor(a) principal: Schaefer, Ricardo
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Minello, Italo Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas - REGEPE
• Texto Completo: https://www.regepe.org.br/regepe/article/view/422
• topic: entrepreneurial being; entrepreneurial mentality; mental models; entrepreneurial representations; entrepreneurial forma mentis; ser empreendedor; mentalidade empreendedora; modelos mentais; representações empreendedoras; forma mentis empreendedora

Modern world issues urge subjects to be agents of change. There is an essential player in this process whose nature and development still lack understanding: the entrepreneur individual. Among the key factors that determine and explain the way of being and acting is his thought, a fundamental dimension, but yet insufficiently investigated. Processes located in the basic structure of thought, from where actions can be conceived, and then performed, lack further understanding and this comprehension can promote advances in research on the entrepreneurial activity. Facing this scenario, this research of theoretical development aims at analyzing the different approaches of the entrepreneurial mentality, gathering and comparing the main results and understandings achieved on the topic. Entrepreneurship has been investigated and described not as a way of knowing, but as a way of being, and the entrepreneur as a person who has a mentality that manifests itself in behavior or entrepreneurial action. Bringing back and confronting the functioning of mental models, entrepreneurial representations and the forma mentis of the entrepreneur, this study describes how the entrepreneurial mentality structures his way of perceiving and understanding himself and the world around him, therefore defining his way of acting through entrepreneurial action.