Explicit and tacit knowledge for opportunity identification: implications for latent and manifest entrepreneurial intention

Javier Alfonso Rodríguez-Escobar, Raphael Lissillour and Jean-Michel Sahut

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2025, vol. 56, issue 4, 529-550

Abstract: This article explains how explicit and tacit knowledge find hidden and visible entrepreneurial opportunities. Psychological approaches reveal entrepreneurial intention factors. The recommended conceptual framework was compared by 235 university students from different disciplines. Data was analysed using structural equation modelling. Latent entrepreneurial ambition induces visible entrepreneurial intention in the study. Tacit and explicit information influence entrepreneurial intention formation, and gender and study programme type may alter the model. According to the research, entrepreneurs must identify opportunities. Tacit knowledge impacts entrepreneurial purpose, while explicit information identifies opportunities. Research focuses improving entrepreneurial skills, starting with opportunity identification. To best serve students' entrepreneurial goals, university entrepreneurship curricula should mix explicit and tacit local knowledge.

Keywords: explicit knowledge; tacit knowledge; latent entrepreneurial intention; EI; manifest entrepreneurial intention; entrepreneurship training. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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