A Literature Review of Entrepreneurial Team Cognition and Future Prospects

Entrepreneurial team cognition promotes the focus transformation of entrepreneurial team study from team behavioral rationality to team cognition rationality, reveals the driving mechanism embedded behind team activities, and gradually becomes one of the independent issues in entrepreneurship field. At present, the research on entrepreneurial team cognition is at the initial stage, and the research content is also scattered. Firstly, through a literature review, this paper summarizes the connotation of entrepreneurial team cognition from the perspectives of state, process and ability. Secondly, this paper sorts out the antecedents of entrepreneurial team cognition at the levels of cognitive bases, cognitive interaction and emotional experience, and outlines the influences of entrepreneurial team cognition on team creativity, team behavior, entrepreneurial process and entrepreneurial performance. At last, it constructs an integrated framework of antecedents and outcomes of entrepreneurial team cognition, and makes some suggestions about future research.