Entrepreneurial Alertness and Opportunity Identification: Where Are We Now?

Connie Marie Gaglio () and Susan Winter ()
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Connie Marie Gaglio: Ohrenschall Center for Entrepreneurship, San Francisco State University
Susan Winter: School of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Chapter Chapter 21 in Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Mind, 2017, pp 339-358 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Since its inception, entrepreneurship has struggled with the academic version of a new venture’s liability of newness; the field was considered pre-paradigmatic (Research methodology in strategy and management, New York, pp 1–32, 2005b), bereft of theory or conceptual frameworks (J Bus Ventur 19:617–620, 2004; Acad Manage Rev 26):8–11, 2001) and so lacking in understanding that investigators could not agree on what constituted the phenomenon of interest: any kind of self-employment? New venture creation? Corporate venturing? Something else? All of the above (J Bus Ventur 5:15–28, 1990; Acad Manage J 48:556–564, 2005a; Entrep Theory Pract 26:17–25, 2001, Encyclopedia of entrepreneurship, Englewood Cliffs, 1982)?

Keywords: Mental Model; Entrepreneurial Opportunity; Functional Fixedness; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Venture Creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45544-0_21

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