The Role of Entrepreneur Cognition on Core Rigidity

Yan Guo; Pei-Wen Huang; Meihui Chou; Shih-Chieh Fang; Fu-Sheng Tsai

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717253

The Role of Entrepreneur Cognition on Core Rigidity

Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 2:12:717253. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717253. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Yan Guo¹, Pei-Wen Huang², Meihui Chou¹, Shih-Chieh Fang³, Fu-Sheng Tsai^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Accounting and Financial Management, College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
² Department of Business Management, College of Management, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
³ Department of Business Administration, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
⁴ North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWREP), Zhengzhou, China.
⁵ Center for Environmental Toxin and Emerging-Contaminant Research, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁶ Super Micro Mass Research and Technology Center, Cheng Shiu University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Abstract

Against the backdrop of economic internationalization and market globalization, the world has witnessed faster competitive contents with a more dynamic market environment, a more rapid technological innovation, and more diverse customer needs. Thus, for every enterprise especially led by entrepreneurs, the focus is to maintain the sustainability of competitive advantages and dynamically transform core capacity to avoid rigidity. This paper introduces the process of the deepened rigidity in WS Co. Company, which occurs due to the wrong cognition of Dr. S and his teams who managed or failed to respond to the rigidity encountered by the company during different periods. The rigidity of its capacity is believed to be caused by the cognitive errors of the entrepreneur and his team facing every period of potential rigidity, which makes them fail to deal with it (or choose the wrong methods), thus leading to complete rigidity. This paper intends to explain how rigidity takes shape from the cognitive aspect of senior managers, which may serve as illuminations for the similar enterprises led by entrepreneurs.

Keywords: WS Co.; cognition of managers; core capacity; core rigidity; entrepreneur.