The constructivist view of entrepreneurial opportunities: a critical analysis

Stratos Ramoglou () and Stelios Zyglidopoulos ()

Small Business Economics, 2015, vol. 44, issue 1, 78 pages

Abstract: The notion that opportunities exist objectively “out there” has been repeatedly assaulted by scholars who counter that opportunities are subjectively constructed or created. This paper intends to restore the balance by bringing the critical strands of inquiry themselves under critical scrutiny. Beyond the formulation of some original lines of critique and the drawing of attention to some foundational yet insufficiently studied issues, this article further contributes the following: (1) it juxtaposes a taxonomical ordering of constructivist approaches; (2) it identifies angles of complementarity and contradiction with the objectivist perspective; and (3) it brings subtle conceptual distinctions into prominence. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Entrepreneurial opportunities; Austrian economics; Philosophy of the social sciences; Constructivist ontology; Conceptual analysis; B52; B25; L26; B53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9590-4

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