Bastian, B., Hjelle., M. & Shepherd, D. (2025). Systemizing entrepreneurial metacognition: Thinking about the past and future. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10422587251315664
Brief summary: Metacognition represents a promising, fast-growing research field in entrepreneurship. However, the potential of metacognition - with strong foundations in the psychological literature – is still ill-understood. In our review, we synthesize five attributes of entrepreneurial metacognition, present a model that links entrepreneurial metacognition’s antecedents and outcomes, and hint at exciting future research on neuroscience, debiasing, and collective decision-making.
Acar, O. A., & Bastian, B. (2024). A Toolkit to Help You Manage Uncertainty Around AI, Harvard Business Review.
Brief summary: Managers today are working through a new wave of uncertainty as AI’s role expands across industries. Drawing on strategy research, we explain different AI uncertainty types and suggest four key approaches for managers to turn uncertainty into opportunity — seeing, thinking, doing, and shaping.
Bastian, B. & Foss, N. J. (2024). Metacognition and Stakeholder Enrollment: Cognitive Frames in the Entrepreneurial Process. Academy of Management Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.10098abstract
Brief summary: Does thinking about your thinking affect group collaboration? We conceptualize the influence of metacognition on a collective level when a group of stakeholders collaborate with an entrepreneurial venture.
Gabay-Mariani, L., Bastian, B., Caputo, A., Pappas, N. (2024). Hidden Stories and The Dark Side of Entrepreneurial Commitment. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 30(6), 1553-1575. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-03-2023-0248
Brief summary: When does overcommitment lead to bad choices? We empirically show that a specific type of commitment leads to entrepreneurial overinvestment.
Bastian, B. & Zucchella, A. (2023). Nascent entrepreneurs during start-up competitions: Between beauty contests and co-created problematization. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 20, e00391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2023.e00391
Brief summary: What happens when you put academics and entrepreneurs in the same room? We distinguish two types of entrepreneurs in start-up competitions; those that co-create their problem formulation process, and those who participate more symbolically, being mainly mindful of their venture idea appearance.
Bastian, B., & Zuchella, A. (2022). Entrepreneurial metacognition. A study on nascent entrepreneurs. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 18, 1775–1805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-022-00799-1
Brief summary: How do entrepreneurs make decisions while coping with different degrees of uncertainty? We explain that metacognitive processes stimulate the ability to learn from others, increase the recognition of feedback, and encourage engagement.
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