This authoritative title presents the most important and influential contributions to the study of entrepreneurial opportunity. The first section investigates the nature of entrepreneurial opportunity. This research review presents the best work of the last ten years on the dynamics and nature of opportunity emergence. The careful selection of articles concludes by highlighting the varying contexts in which entrepreneurial opportunity can occur and strategies for researching it.
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This authoritative collection presents the most important and influential contributions to the study of entrepreneurial opportunity. The careful selection of articles, alongside an original introduction by the editors, concludes by highlighting the varying contexts in which entrepreneurial opportunity can occur and strategies for researching it.
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Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Dean A. Shepherd and Denis A. Grégoire
PART I THE NATURE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
A. Conceptual Definition
1. Jonathan T. Eckhardt and Scott A. Shane (2003), âOpportunities and Entrepreneurshipâ
2. Jeffery S. McMullen, Lawrence A. Plummer and Zoltan J. Acs (2007), âWhat is an Entrepreneurial Opportunity?â
B. On The Origins of Opportunities: Perspectives from the Economics System
3. Israel M. Kirzner (1997), âEntrepreneurial Discovery and the Competitive Market Process: An Austrian Approachâ
4. Randall G. Holcombe (2003), âThe Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunitiesâ
5. Lawrence A. Plummer, J. Michael Haynie and Joy Godesiabois (2007), âAn Essay on the Origins of Entrepreneurial Opportunityâ
C. On The Origins of Opportunities: Perspectives from the Individual Level
6. Jane E. Dutton and Susan E. Jackson (1987), âCategorizing Strategic Issues: Links to Organizational Actionâ
7. Jeffery S. McMullen and Dean A. Shepherd (2006), âEntrepreneurial Action and the Role of Uncertainty in the Theory of the Entrepreneurâ
8. Dean A. Shepherd, Jeffery S. McMullen and P. Devereaux Jennings (2007), âThe Formation of Opportunity Beliefs: Overcoming Ignorance and Reducing Doubtâ
9. Dimo Dimov (2011), âGrappling With the Unbearable Elusiveness of Entrepreneurial Opportunitiesâ
PART II THE DYNAMICS OF OPPORTUNITY EMERGENCE
A. Alertness to Entrepreneurial Opportunities
10. Connie Marie Gaglio and Jerome A. Katz (2001), âThe Psychological Basis of Opportunity Identification: Entrepreneurial Alertnessâ
11. Alexander Ardichvili, Richard Cardozo and Sourav Ray (2003), âA Theory of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Developmentâ
B. Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
12. Scott Shane (2000), âPrior Knowledge and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunitiesâ
13. Dean A. Shepherd and Dawn R. DeTienne (2005), âPrior Knowledge, Potential Financial Reward, and Opportunity Identificationâ
C. Searching for Entrepreneurial Opportunities
14. James O. Fiet (2007), âA Prescriptive Analysis of Search and Discoveryâ
15. Ivan P. Vaghely and Pierre-AndrĂ© Julien (2010), âAre Opportunities Recognised or Constructed? An Information Perspective on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identificationâ
D. The Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
16. Saras D. Sarasvathy (2001), âCausation and Effectuation: Toward a Theoretical Shift from Economic Inevitability to Entrepreneurial Contingencyâ
17. Ted Baker and Reed E. Nelson (2005), âCreating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolageâ
18. Sharon A. Alvarez and Jay B. Barney (2010), âEntrepreneurship and Epistemology: The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Study of Entrepreneurial Opportunitiesâ
E. Cognitive Process for Opportunity Identification
19. Robert A. Baron and Michael D. Ensley (2006), âOpportunity Recognition as the Detection of Meaningful Patterns: Evidence from Comparisons of Novice and Experienced Entrepreneursâ
20. Denis A. GrĂ©goire, Pamela S. Barr and Dean A. Shepherd (2010), âCognitive Processes of Opportunity Recognition: The Role of Structural Alignmentâ
F. Learning and Entrepreneurial Opportunity
21. Dean A. Shepherd (2003), âLearning from Business Failure: Propositions of Grief Recovery for the Self-Employedâ
22. Andrew C. Corbett (2007), âLearning Asymmetries and the Discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunitiesâ
G. The Impact of Human and Social Capital
23. Per Davidsson and Benson Honig (2003), âThe Role of Social and Human Capital Among Nascent Entrepreneursâ
24. Eren Ozgen and Robert A. Baron (2007), âSocial Sources of Information in Opportunity Recognition: Effects of Mentors, Industry Networks, and Professional Forumsâ
25. Deniz Ucbasaran, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright (2009), âThe Extent and Nature of Opportunity Identification by Experienced Entrepreneursâ
H. Evaluation of Opportunities
26. Young Rok Choi and Dean A. Shepherd (2004), âEntrepreneursâ Decisions to Exploit Opportunitiesâ
27. J. Michael Haynie, Dean A. Shepherd and Jeffery S. McMullen (2009), âAn Opportunity for Me? The Role of Resources in Opportunity Evaluation Decisionsâ
28. J. Robert Mitchell and Dean A. Shepherd (2010), âTo Thine Own Self Be True: Images of Self, Images of Opportunity, and Entrepreneurial Actionâ
PART III ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
A. Different Paths for Different Types of Opportunities
29. John C. Dencker, Marc Gruber and Sonali K. Shah (2009), âIndividual and Opportunity Factors Influencing Job Creation in New Firmsâ
30. Mikael Samuelsson and Per Davidsson (2009), âDoes Venture Opportunity Variation Matter? Investigating Systematic Process Differences Between Innovative and Imitative New Venturesâ
B. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the Community
31. Norris F. Krueger, Jr. and Deborah V. Brazeal (1994), âEntrepreneurial Potential and Potential Entrepreneursâ
32. Ana MarĂa Peredo and James J. Chrisman (2010), âToward a Theory of Community-Based Enterpriseâ
C. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the Environment
33. Thomas J. Dean and Jeffery S. McMullen (2007), âToward a Theory of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Reducing Environmental Degradation Through Entrepreneurial Actionâ
34. Dean A. Shepherd and Holger Patzelt (2011), âThe New Field of Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Studying Entrepreneurial Action Linking âWhat Is to Be Sustained?â With âWhat Is to Be Developed?ââ
D. Entrepreneurial Opportunities and the International Context
35. Dante Di Gregorio, Martina Musteen and Douglas E. Thomas (2008), âInternational New Ventures: The Cross-Border Nexus of Individuals and Opportunitiesâ
36. Emilia Rovira Nordman and Sara MelĂ©n (2008), âThe Impact of Different Kinds of Knowledge for the Internationalization Process of Born Globals in the Biotech Businessâ
PART IV METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR RESEARCHING ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
37. Denis A. GrĂ©goire, Dean A. Shepherd and Lisa Schurer Lambert (2010), âMeasuring Opportunity-Recognition Beliefs: Illustrating and Validating an Experimental Approachâ
38. Susan A. Hill and Julian M. Birkinshaw (2010), âIdea Sets: Conceptualizing and Measuring a New Unit of Analysis in Entrepreneurship Researchâ
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ISBN
9781781000465
Publisert
2012-07-30
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Vendor
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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244 mm
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169 mm
AldersnivÄ
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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864