Opportunity identification and entrepreneurial behavior

Scholars of entrepreneurship provide a comprehensive view of opportunity identification, offer a number of theoretical extensions and developments, explore some new empirical territory, and suggest future research. Their topics include the enterprise-serving bias, behavior by different types of entr...

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Other Authors Butler, John E., 1946- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2004]
SeriesResearch in entrepreneurship and management.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781068182402
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-926-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Opportunity identification and entrepreneurial behavior: An Introduction / John E. Butler
  • Chapter 1. Systematic search by repeat entrepreneurs / James O. Fiet, Van G.H. Clouse and William I. Norton, Jr
  • Chapter 2. Opportunities as attributions: The enterprise-serving bias / William B. Gartner and Kelly G. Shaver
  • Chapter 3. Opportunity recognition: Insights from a cognitive perspective / Robert A. Baron
  • Chapter 4. Opportunity identification behavior by different types of entrepreneurs / Deniz Ucbasaran
  • Chapter 5. Bisociation and opportunity / Stephen Ko
  • Chapter 6. So what is an entrepreneurial opportunity? C. M. Gaglio
  • Chapter 7. The individuality of opportunity recognition: A critical review and extension / Dimo P. Dimov
  • Chapter 8. Extraordinary versus ordinary discoveries: The case of American and Chinese entrepreneurship / Tony Fu-Lai Yu
  • Chapter 9. Identification of entrepreneurial opportunities in asia: A look at the philippines and vietnam / Christopher Baughn, Victor A. Lim, Linh Thi My Le, Kent E. Neupert and L. Shelton Woods
  • Chapter 10. How knowledge affects opportunity discovery and exploitation among new ventures in dynamic markets / Alexander McKelvie and Johan Wiklund
  • Chapter 11. Technological innovation and the early-stage development of new technology small firms: Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial capacity, and the opportunity discovery process / John Yencken and Murray Gillin
  • Chapter 12. Perceiving opportunity through a fog of uncertainty: Haworth, inc. (1948-1976) / William R. Sandberg and Thomas J. Hench
  • Chapter 13. Constructing corridors to economic primitives: Entrepreneurial opportunities as demand-side artifacts / Saras D. Sarasvathy
  • Index.