Understanding entrepreneurial decision-making by objectivizing subtle cues

Nandram, Sharda S.; Mourmont, Gaëtan; Smith, Eva Norlyk; Heaton, Dennis P.; Bindlish, Puneet K.

doi:10.1080/14766086.2018.1503088

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“…Intuition generally acts as a trigger to action in uncertain and unpredictable contexts. Conversely, analytical tools and rational thinking permit entrepreneurs to assess the contents of intuitive choices and to make sense out of them, objectivizing the subtle cues that inspire entrepreneurial decisions and actions (Nandram et al, 2018). Embracing this perspective, the overlapping of intuition and rationality occurs both in the exploration and in the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities, contributing to the timeliness and the effectiveness of the decision making process (Matzler et al, 2014a, b).…”

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A round of dancing and then one more: embedding intuition in the ballet of entrepreneurial decision making

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The dance metaphor allows us to figuratively depict entrepreneurial decision making processes. Being conventionally conceived of as a sequence of purposeful behaviors rooted in a rational cognition process, entrepreneurial decision making can be featured as a ‘ballet’. This interpretation puts in the background the improvisational nature of decision making, which revokes ‘lindy hop’ as a dance style. The article intends to illuminate the role of intuition, highlighting its overlap with rationality in the entrepreneurial decision making dance. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis followed by an interpretive literature review advances a comprehensive report of 66 peer-reviewed journal articles published from 1995 to 2019, constructing evidence on the nature of entrepreneurial decision making and on the interplay between intuition and rationality. Literature is categorized in five clusters, which are reciprocally intertwined. Firstly, intuition is unconsciously used as a strategy to deal with the uncertainty that inherently affects entrepreneurial ventures. Secondly, intuition is rooted in the entrepreneurs’ impulsivity, that echoes the role of emotions in decision making. Thirdly, the merge of rationality and intuition improves the entrepreneurs’ ability to keep up with the erratic rhythm of the decision making dance. Fourthly, the mix of intuition and rationality serves as a catalyst of entrepreneurs’ ability to thrive in complex and unpredictable environments. Fifthly, intuition generates drawbacks on entrepreneurs’ meta-cognitive knowledge, which should be carefully recognized. Embracing the dance metaphor, intuition turns out to be crucial to make entrepreneurs able to fill in the gap between rationality and uncertainty.

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“…This journal seeks to define the field of management spirituality and religion (MSR) through conceptual, theoretical, and empirical understandings, including metaphysical explanations of MSR. The search revealed three articles with the term intuition in the articles' abstract (Nandram et al, 2018;Norlyk Herriott, 2009;Schnall and Cannon, 2012).…”

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Searching for Spiritual Intuition in Management

Sadler‐Smith

2020

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This research is a search for spiritual intuition in the management literature. Spiritual intuition research is slight compared with other types of intuition (creative, expert, moral and social types). This article: (a) searched and reviewed research on spiritual intuition in management; (b) identified Frances Vaughan as one of the primary exponents of the concept; (c) traced backwards from Vaughan into transpersonal psychology and Jung; (d) found evidence for spiritual intuition in the work of Willian James and Abraham Maslow; (e) identified links between spiritual intuition and other types of intelligences and capabilities.This article adds a fifth type of intuition to the four extant types and shows how it is relevant for management. The types of intuition are related, but they draw on different source disciplines (Jungian/transpersonal/humanistic psychology in spiritual intuition, mainstream behavioural science in the case of the other four types) and have different implications for management. A framework is presented encapsulating the five types, and spiritual intuition is proposed as being an intuition that is fundamentally different in type in terms of its ontology, epistemology and methods of inquiry.

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“…What should be the role of various institutions and the ethical norms they prescribe? How much of human behavior should be driven by universal guidelines, and how much should be empowered by local views and individual sources of decision making, such as subtle cues that go beyond reason (Nandram et al, 2018)? Aṣṭāṅga Yoga philosophy, an Indian spiritual tradition tells us that dichotomies or schismatic perspectives are a consequence of ignorance and prescribes an eight fold path to come out of this ignorance towards integrativeness.…”

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Spirituality Led Ethical Decision Making with Yogic Yamas and Niyamas

Nandram

Bindlish

Sukhada

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Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion

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If reason isn't the primary anchor in extraordinary crises, then what drives decision making? Is there a spirituality led ethical foundation to reality that goes beyond decision makers' perceptions of dichotomies? We examine how ethics and spirituality are part of one holistic framework shaping the organizational decision making processes. This conceptual paper addresses: How can Yogic Yamas and Niyamas (disciplinary restraints and observances) as expressions of spirituality led ethics, enrich ethical decision making towards a trustful environment sustainably? Three philosophical texts for Astānga Yoga in Indian spiritual traditions were used through hermeneutics based qualitative-research methodology. Among the salient contributions, we explore the concepts of Āstikya (belief or trust in higher consciousness) and Īsvarapranidhāna (committing what one does to higher consciousness) for enriching the discourse on spirituality led ethical decision making. We propose an integrative approach to achieve coherent decisions by bringing a universal and contextual spiritual base for coping with crises.

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Understanding entrepreneurial decision-making by objectivizing subtle cues

Cited by 9 publications

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A round of dancing and then one more: embedding intuition in the ballet of entrepreneurial decision making

A round of dancing and then one more: embedding intuition in the ballet of entrepreneurial decision making

Searching for Spiritual Intuition in Management

Spirituality Led Ethical Decision Making with Yogic Yamas and Niyamas

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