Creating entrepreneurial opportunities: an organisational and social constructive phenomenon in the creation of new businesses

Antti Kauppinen and Vesa Puhakka

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 2010, vol. 1, issue 4, 432-448

Abstract: This conceptual study approaches the creation process of new businesses from the perspective of organisational creativity and imagination in entrepreneurial opportunity process. Currently, organisational creativity and imagination have been linked to the creative view or creation theory in the entrepreneurial opportunity process field of research. We argue that our theoretical illustration concerning the dialectical creation process of entrepreneurial opportunities describes an early phase of the creation of new businesses. According to our theoretical illustration, entrepreneurs create new unknown effects from the given means or tools (the logic of effectuation) in the creative space (called in-between). In this manner, the creative space including subject, object and community (i.e., neutral opportunities) is empty at the beginning of the entrepreneurial opportunity process, and it is completed by elements of business environment (i.e., intension-driven entrepreneurial opportunities) such as rules, tools, signs and division of labour.

Keywords: creative view; creative space; effectuation logic; neutral opportunities; intention-driven entrepreneurial opportunities; human activity structure; organisational creativity; entrepreneurship; new ventures; new business creation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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