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In order to understand entrepreneur-senior manager interplay as the unit of analysis, individual and organizational theory were addressed. In this way the literature and theory discussed in this chapter are derived from entrepreneurship, cognitive science, organizational, and systems thinking literature. The substantive literature on entrepreneurial cognition contributes to our understanding of similarities and differences in information processing, decision making, and opportunity recognition. In addition, the literature that suggests these differences have other influences on the entrepreneurial process is considered alongside the implications for organizational growth and subsequent interrelationships. Furthermore, the literature on the interplay between entrepreneurial cognition and the organizations that are accepted as conceptual models in social science (Mitchell et al. 2007) are examined. A brief background to the historical use of interrelated constructs that have been restricted to individual-level dynamics (Haynie et al. 2010), and larger organizations in management and organizational research in the form of systems thinking (von Bertalanffy 1968; Senge 1990) is considered. By considering individual and organizational-level theories a comprehensive exploration of research, identified overlapping concepts and approaches.

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